African Union Urges End to Talks Preconditions

The African Union has asked the Nato alliance pursuing military operations against the administration of Libya's Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi to put pressure on opposition leaders to remove preconditions which it says are blocking peace talks.

Fighters near the strategic oil town of Brega.

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