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Ex-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak suffered an "emotional breakdown" in prison on Tuesday, days after he was sentenced to life over the death of protesters last year, a senior interior ministry official said.

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International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Tuesday clashed with a top Sudanese diplomat at the UN Security Council, threatening an investigation into the envoy's defense of alleged war crimes in Darfur.

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Disagreements between Tuareg and Islamists rebels over the creation of a breakaway state in northern Mali persist as they fail to agree on the implementation of Islamic law, the Tuaregs said Tuesday.

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Crowds of Egyptians packed Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square on Tuesday for a mass demonstration to protest against verdicts handed down in ex-president Hosni Mubarak's murder trial.

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A Tunisian journalist said Tuesday he launched a hunger strike on May 28 to defend press freedom after military police seized the cameras he used to film the trial of ousted leader Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.

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Three suspects have been charged with disturbing public order and are being detained in connection with an attack on transition leader Dioncounda Traore in May, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

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The death toll after a devastating plane crash in Nigeria's largest city rose to 159 on Tuesday, as aviation officials suspended Dana Air's licence saying the carrier will not fly until a probe is completed.

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South African Airways (SAA) announced Tuesday it was halting daily direct flights between Cape Town and London to avoid losses amid shrinking demand.

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Sudanese journalists and Communist Party members held a sit-in on Tuesday to protest against repeated restrictions against their newspaper, part of what press freedom advocates describe as an intensifying clampdown on critical voices.

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The first trial of a senior official accused of killing demonstrators in the 2011 uprising against Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi opened on Tuesday.

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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A torrential downpour and strong winds prevented emergency crews from returning Tuesday morning to a devastated neighborhood where a commercial airliner crashed, killing all 153 people aboard the plane and an undetermined number of people on the ground.

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South Africa fired coach Pitso Mosimane Tuesday after hopes of qualifying for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil suffered a severe setback last weekend when held 1-1 at home by Ethiopia.

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Nigerian rescuers have confirmed the first deaths on the ground caused by a devastating plane crash in the country's largest city, raising the toll to 157, an official said on Tuesday.

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The booming drums and lusty singing of Ethiopia's Konso tribe, celebrating their hometown joining the UN's list of World Heritage Sites, echoed down the road that winds through lush green hills.

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Corrupt officials in grossly impoverished South Sudan have stolen an estimated $4 billion from the world's newest nation, President Salva Kiir has said, in an appeal for funds to be returned.

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A militia of Libyan ex-rebels seized the runway of Tripoli International airport on Monday, surrounding planes and grounding all flights after their leader's apparent arrest, officials said.

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The flight that crashed in Nigeria's largest city of Lagos, killing all 153 people on board, reported both of its engines having failed before it went down, the civil aviation chief said Monday.

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Ivory Coast's president, the head of the ECOWAS west African regional bloc, on Monday named his ambassador to France as minister of African integration and mediator in the crises in coup-hit Mali and Guinea-Bissau.

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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Police dogs sniffed for dead bodies Monday in the rubble of buildings destroyed when an airliner crashed into them, killing all 153 aboard, as cranes lifted away heavy pieces of debris in the grisly aftermath of Nigeria's worst air disaster in nearly two decades.

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Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram on Monday claimed responsibility for a weekend suicide attack on a church in the country's northeast which killed 15 people and wounded 40 others.