20111023
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libya is to declare its bitter eight-month civil war against Muammar Gaddafi's 42 years of eccentric one-man rule over on Sunday and embark on building a democracy with the country's first free elections next year.

20111023
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NAIROBI/MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Kenya said Somalia's al Shabaab militants were on the run after it deployed more troops and struck rebel targets by air to secure its border from rebels Nairobi accuses of kidnapping foreigners on its soil.

20111023
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TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian voters stood in long queues on Sunday, seizing the opportunity to take part in the first election of the "Arab Spring" that was expected to hand the biggest share of power to an Islamist party.

20111023
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ISIOLO, Kenya (Reuters) - Fighting between pastoralists over grazing land in drought-ravaged northern Kenya killed five people on Saturday, officials said, the latest in a string of deadly clashes this year.

20111023
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LONDON (Reuters) - Jockeying for power among Libya's well-armed and fractious new leadership may intensify after the death of deposed autocrat Muammar Gaddafi, an anxious and, for many, joyous moment in a country hungry for stability and impatient to swap the bullet for the ballot box.

20111023
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LONDON (Reuters) - Libya's Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said in an interview with the BBC on Saturday he wished former dictator Muammar Gaddafi had not been killed and instead had been put on trial for his crimes.

20111021
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SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Disturbing images of a blood-stained and shaken Muammar Gaddafi being dragged around by angry fighters quickly circulated around the world after the Libyan dictator's dramatic death near his home town of Sirte.

20111021
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SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi was killed after being captured by the Libyan fighters he once scorned as "rats", cornered and shot in the head after they overran his last bastion of resistance in his hometown of Sirte.

20111021
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TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisians should vote without fear of rigging or any violence in the first free election after an uprising earlier this year, the prime minister said on Thursday.

20111021
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's armed forces have seized a town close to a rebel stronghold in the border state of Blue Nile where fighting has been going on for almost two months, state media said on Thursday.

20111021
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MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - A federal jury convicted two Somali-born Minnesota women on Thursday of raising money for al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabaab rebels after the United States designated the Somali organization a terrorist group.

20111021
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt said on Thursday it was preparing to swap U.S.-Israeli dual national Ilan Grapel, who was detained in June on spying charges, for Egyptian prisoners held in Israel.

20111021
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Kenyan and Somali troops advanced on an Islamist-held town in southern Somalia on Thursday and African Union peacekeepers moved on one of the last pockets under militant control in the capital Mogadishu.

20111021
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya must take care not to let its cross-border incursion into Somalia to secure its border from al Qaeda-linked militants turn into a drawn-out campaign, former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan said on Thursday.

20111021
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LONDON (Reuters) - Cooperation between Somalia's al Qaeda linked militants and pirate gangs is growing as the al Shabaab group becomes more desperate for funding, the head of the U.N.'s counter-piracy unit said on Thursday.

20111021
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RABAT (Reuters) - A liberal-led coalition of eight political parties says it is confident of winning a parliamentary election in Morocco next month aimed at staunching any spillover from the Arab Spring.

20111020
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SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi is dead, Libya's new leaders said, killed by fighters who overran his home town and final bastion on Thursday. His bloodied body was stripped and displayed around the world from cellphone video.

20111020
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Kenyan and Somali troops advanced on an Islamist-held town in southern Somalia on Thursday and African Union peacekeepers moved on one of the last pockets under militant control in the capital Mogadishu.

20111020
Reuters
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya must take care not to let its cross-border incursion into Somalia to secure its border from al Qaeda-linked militants turn into a drawn-out campaign, former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan said on Thursday.