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(Reuters) - Egypt's ruling military council has agreed to form a new government that will run a presidential election to be held before July, bowing to demands by protesters for a swifter transfer of power, politicians who met the army on Tuesday said.

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(Reuters) - In Cairo's Tahrir square, protesters talk defiantly of finishing the job they started when Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was toppled. A sign declaring "Mubarak -- leave" sums up how little they feel has changed since February.

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(Reuters) - Egypt's army has agreed to hold a parliamentary election on schedule, with voting to start as planned on November 28, a politician who met the military for talks on Tuesday said.

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(Reuters) - Egyptian activists called for a huge turnout in protests on Tuesday to put an end to rule by the military which also saw its authority challenged by the resignation of the civilian cabinet, casting uncertainty on elections due next week.

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(Reuters) - Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) has appointed as new defense minister the local commander whose forces captured Muammar Gaddafi's son at the weekend, an NTC source told Reuters on Tuesday.

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(Reuters) - The chants, tear gas and violence emanating from Cairo's Tahrir Square evoke the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak. Protesters talk of a fight to the death with the ruling military council, whose entire transition plan looks shakier than ever.

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(Reuters) - Egyptians start voting on November 28 in their first free parliamentary election in decades after a popular uprising ended President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule in February.

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(Reuters) - Egypt's ruling military council was considering on Monday whether to accept the resignation of the entire cabinet tendered the day before, after violent clashes in Cairo's Tahrir square between police and protesters, a cabinet source said on Monday.

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(Reuters) - Violent unrest in Egypt threatens to accelerate the country's slide toward a currency crisis, forcing a sharp depreciation of the Egyptian pound in coming months and conceivably prompting Cairo to impose capital controls.

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(Reuters) - Sameh Attallah was among Egypt's "silent majority" who trusted the army to make way for civilian rule after protesters ousted Hosni Mubarak in February. For nine months, he stayed home when others hit the street demanding swifter reform.

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(Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has asked Libyan authorities to be allowed to visit Saif al-Islam Gaddafi in prison and expects the visit to take place soon, a senior ICRC official said Monday.

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(Reuters) - One Egyptian policeman was killed and one injured during a raid on an armed Islamist group suspected of involvement in pipeline bombings that have disrupted gas supplies to Israel and Jordan, the state news agency reported.

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(Reuters) - More than a million people in Zimbabwe will require food aid between now and March 2012, a United Nations agency said Monday, despite recent improvements in the country's grain production.

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(Reuters) - Cairo's main morgue at Zainhum hospital has received 33 corpses from those killed in clashes between protesters and security forces, medical sources said on Monday.

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(Reuters) - Egypt's army said Monday it had intervened on the streets of central Cairo, where 33 people have been killed in clashes over the past three days, to protect the Interior Ministry, not to clear demonstrators from nearby Tahrir Square.

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(Reuters) - On a beach-front wall in Egypt's second city where courting couples often stroll are scrawled the words: "Would you accept this for your sister?" and "Be in fear of God."

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(Reuters) - Morocco will not follow other North African states in handing power to Islamists when it votes in an election this week because it has a mature democracy, a leading member of a liberal alliance contesting the vote told Reuters.

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(Reuters) - Morocco holds a parliamentary election on November 25. Here is a timeline on Morocco since King Mohammed came to the throne:

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(Reuters) - Here are the latest details of revolts and protests in the Middle East and North Africa:

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(Reuters) - Egypt's ruling military council and the army-picked cabinet held an urgent meeting on Sunday after protesters and police clashed in Cairo to discuss the violence and ensure an election next week goes ahead on time, the cabinet said.