The Arab League, which would really rather not have another one of its autocratic member governments toppled, voted to suspend Syria in four days unless the Syrian government ends its brutal crackdown on protests. Good luck with that, guys.

Anti-Qaddafi rebels continued to lose ground to government loyalists today, as the eastern town of Brega fell and a mass exodus began toward Benghazi. Meanwhile, the Arab League has asked the UN Security Council to impose a no-fly zone over the country.