The Ras Jdir border crossing between Tunisia and Libya reached a crisis point on Tuesday, according to international aid workers there. Tunisian border guards beat people with sticks and fired their guns into the air in an attempt to control the crowds trying to climb over the border wall. Small groups have been let through, but the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has asked for hundreds of planes to airlift "acres of people" out of Libya.

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