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DUBAI (Reuters) - Egypt's military rulers outlined on Sunday new areas where they would use long-standing emergency laws, citing activities such as blocking roads, publishing false information and weapons possession, the state news agency said.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt and Israel said on Sunday they wanted a return to normal diplomatic activities after the Israeli ambassador flew home following the storming of the embassy in Cairo during violent protests.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - The head of Egypt's ruling army council postponed his appearance at the trial of ousted president Hosni Mubarak, saying he was busy with the security situation, media reported on Sunday days after a spike in anti-Israel violence.

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MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a British man and kidnapped his wife on Sunday in a raid on a beach resort in northern Kenya near Somalia, Kenyan police and Britain's Foreign Office said.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A major rebel group in Sudan's troubled region of Darfur said on Sunday its leader Khalil Ibrahim has returned after leaving his Libyan refuge following the fall of Muammar Gaddafi's regime.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The firebrand leader of the youth wing of South Africa's ruling ANC declared "economic war" on whites on Saturday, making clear he had no intention of backing down from inflammatory rhetoric on the eve of a party disciplinary hearing.

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STONE TOWN, Zanzibar (Reuters) - - Nearly 200 people drowned when an overloaded ferry capsized off east Africa as it sailed from Zanzibar to Pemba island, police said on Saturday, Tanzania's worst maritime disaster in at least 15 years.

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel and Egypt are working to preserve the landmark peace accord they signed in 1979, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesman said on Saturday after rioting forced the evacuation of Israel's Cairo embassy.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's ruling military council rejected an offer to resign by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf on Saturday after violent clashes around the Israeli embassy in Cairo, the Arabic television channel Al Arabiya reported.

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NEAR BANI WALID, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan fighters trying to capture one of Muammar Gaddafi's last strongholds battled into the desert town of Bani Walid on Saturday against stiff resistance from Gaddafi loyalists.

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PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Several thousand demonstrators took to the streets in the capital of Mauritius on Saturday in a rare protest against corruption and living standards on the Indian Ocean island.

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CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's parliament adopted a new mining code that more than doubles the share the West African state can take in mining projects to 35 percent and toughens procedures for acquiring development permits, the government said on Saturday.

20110910
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ZANZIBAR (Reuters) - A ferry carrying more than 500 passengers from Zanzibar to Pemba island off the east African country of Tanzania has capsized and scores of people are missing, police said on Saturday.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Israel flew its ambassador home on Saturday after Egyptians stormed the building housing the Israeli mission in Cairo, plunging Egypt's ruling army deeper into its toughest diplomatic crisis since taking over from Hosni Mubarak.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has tightened rules for issuing entry visas to tourists due to security concerns, according to security sources, in a move which tourism officials fear could further damaged their industry.

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NORTH OF BANI WALID/EAST OF SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan fighters trying to capture one of Muammar Gaddafi's last strongholds battled for control of the desert town of Bani Walid on Saturday and Gaddafi loyalists hit back with rockets.

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FREETOWN (Reuters) - Gunfire broke out in Sierra Leone's second biggest town, Bo, on Friday as supporters of rival political parties clashed in the streets, sources said.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African rugby player Bees Roux reached a plea bargain on Friday to avoid jail for beating to death a Pretoria police office who pulled him over for drunk driving, a prosecution official said.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - An acute government funding crisis in Swaziland, Africa's last absolute monarchy, is disrupting supplies of HIV/AIDS drugs and hampering the fight against the virus in the country with the world's highest infection rate, Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) said on Friday.

20110910
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NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger would respect its commitments to the International Criminal Court if Libya's Muammar Gaddafi or his sons entered the country, the head of President Mahamadou Issoufou's cabinet told Reuters on Friday.