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(Reuters) - Western leaders urged Libyan authorities on Saturday to work with the International Criminal Court in bringing the captured son of Muammar Gaddafi to justice, saying it was a vital step toward national reconciliation after the civil war.

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(Reuters) - A group of the fighters who ended Muammar Gaddafi's rule said on Saturday they were being sidelined in the new Libya, underlining the tensions between competing interests as the country forms a new government.

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(Reuters) - Libya's prime minister hailed the capture of Muammar Gaddafi's son on Saturday as the "crowning" of the Libyan uprising and promised a fair trial for Saif al-Islam, who was found in the southern desert overnight.

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ZINTAN, Libya, Nov 20 - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who was captured in Libya's rugged desert, transformed himself during this year's uprising from a relaxed reformer to a belligerent and loyal lieutenant of his father who is now wanted by the ICC accused of crimes against humanity.

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(Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam has been captured in Libya's southern desert, scared and with only a handful of supporters, by fighters who vow to hold him in the mountain town of Zintan until there is a government to hand him over to.

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(Reuters) - Nigeria's central bank has reached the desired degree of stability for the country's naira currency and does not have a cause to be concerned over inflation due mostly to recent stability in its core components, Governor Lamido Sanusi said on Saturday.

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(Reuters) - Scores of Ethiopian military vehicles pushed at least 80 km (50 miles) into neighbouring Somalia on Saturday, residents said, five weeks after Kenya entered Somalia to fight Islamist militants it blames for a wave of kidnappings on its soil.

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(Reuters) - Clashes erupted between protesters and police in Cairo and two other Egyptian cities, killing two people and wounding hundreds in the biggest security challenge yet for the country's ruling generals days before scheduled elections.

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(Reuters) - Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda party and its two coalition partners have reached agreement in principle to share out the top three government posts between them, senior sources from two coalition parties told Reuters on Friday.

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(Reuters) - Eight pirates boarded an oil supply vessel contracted by Chevron Corp off the Nigerian coast and took three hostages, the U.S. oil company said on Friday.

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(Reuters) - Libya's incoming prime minister Abdelrahim al-Keib is to announce his cabinet in coming days and former rebel factions who fought to oust Muammar Gaddafi are jostling for influence over who will get the top posts in the new defense forces.

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(Reuters) - Islamists ranging from ultra-conservatives to moderates could secure more than 30 percent of seats in Egypt's first free parliamentary election in decades that will be launched later this month, a member of a Salafist group said Friday.

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(Reuters) - Libya's United Nations envoy Mohammed Abdel Rahman Shalgam accused Qatar on Friday of providing weapons and money to Libyan Islamists and told the fellow Arab state to stop meddling in Tripoli's domestic affairs.

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(Reuters) - Pope Benedict, arriving on his second trip to Africa as Roman Catholic leader, on Friday urged African nations to resist the temptation to surrender to market forces as they grow and modernize.

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(Reuters) - Armed men boarded an oil supply vessel contracted by U.S. energy company Chevron off the Nigerian coast early on Friday, shipping and security sources said.

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Press TV
A senior Tunisian official has said that Hamadi Jebali of the Islamic Ennahda party is set to become the next prime minister of the country, under a deal struck between the three main Tunisian parties.

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Press TV
At least 19 civilians have been killed after mortar shells smashed residential areas in the war-ravaged Somali capital of Mogadishu, Press TV reported.

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Press TV
At least 42 people have been killed when US assassination drones launched two separate aerial attacks in southern and central Somalia, Press TV reported.

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Press TV
Egyptian Islamic and liberal opposition groups have staged a major rally in the capital Cairo to protest the ruling junta's plans to amend the constitution and allow for legal safeguards to the army, Press TV reports.

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A terror drone operated by the US military has crashed in central Somalia near the border with Ethiopia, Press TV reported.