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UN Secretary-General urged calm Saturday in Libya amid fears of clashes between pro-government militias and forces backing a rogue general bent on ridding the country of violent extremists.

A renegade general who has launched an assault against Islamists in Benghazi warned Libya had become a "terrorist hub", calling for a civilian presidential high council to form an emergency cabinet and organise legislative elections.

According to some sources, Abdelhakim Belhadj, once the man on the CIA's most-wanted list, already took a group of several hundred Libyan rebels to Syria. It seems that Arab Spring managed to revive the old Che Guevara's idea of exporting revolutions.

Hillary Rodham Clinton said that she feels emboldened to run for president because of Republican criticism of her handling of the deadly attacks on the US consulate in Libya in 2012.

Oil prices edged higher in Asia Monday on escalating violence in crude producer Libya following a coup attempt by a rogue general that has raised concerns about potential supply disruptions, analysts said.

In the last 60 years, there have been many different alliances among the US, Western countries, Arab countries and Israel.