The seat at the United Nations long held by Libya should be given over to the country's interim leaders, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested Thursday. Russia, who has long opposed the NATO bombing campaign that helped lead to the apparent overthrow of strongman Moammar Gadhafi, officially recognized the country's fledgling National Transitional Council.

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