„[…] However, other countries such as Turkey and the Philippines have followed the UN in evacuating their staff, joined at the weekend by oil company workers from French oil company Total, Italy’s ENI and Spain’s Repsol.

America has an aircraft carrier stationed offshore in case it decides to evacuate its diplomats from the fortified embassy in Tripoli, where staff took to shelters on Sunday as shells fell around the walls. […]“

via Libya, a scarcity of normality – MaltaToday.com.mt