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AL-QAWALISH, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebel fighters prepared for a new offensive south of Tripoli on Thursday but tactical errors raised new questions about whether they will be able to march on the capital.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Thursday that it would skip a meeting in Turkey this week between Western powers, Arab governments and leaders of Libya's opposition National Transitional Council, saying that the way the group worked needed "further study"

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday he supports Moscow's efforts to mediate a political solution in Libya and is ready to support talks toward a democratic transition as long as Muammar Gaddafi steps aside, the White House said.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's parliament on Wednesday gave initial approval to cancel the citizenship of South Sudanese, state news agency SUNA said, less than a week after South Sudan became independent.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - The world should recognise the efforts made by Sudan in bringing peace to its southern region, now an independent state, and normalise relations with Khartoum, state media on Thursday quoted a senior Chinese diplomat as saying.

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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - A senior lawmaker from Tanzania's ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi, or Party of the Revolution, who was once in President Jakaya Kikwete's inner circle, has quit his seat amid accusations of graft.

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IMIRINGI, Nigeria, July 14 (Reuters) - Nigerian youths broke into a Niger Delta crude oil flow station owned by Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday in protest at what they said was the firm's failure to provide their communities with electricity.

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - A radical Islamist sect behind almost daily attacks in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno said on Wednesday it would not open dialogue with the government until the military withdrew from the region.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Piracy attacks on the world's shipping rose by a third in the first half of this year and became increasingly violent, with pirates using machineguns, grenade launchers and other weapons, a maritime watchdog said on Thursday.

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TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian soldiers fired in the air to break up clashes between hundreds of young people in the southern city of Gafsa on Wednesday, residents and local media said.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of Egyptians marched on the cabinet headquarters in central Cairo on Tuesday to demand the removal of the ruling military council.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's parliamentary election may not be held until November, about two months later than originally planned, an army source said on Wednesday after some political groups called for the vote to be pushed back.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities detained a former agriculture minister for 15 days on Tuesday to investigate allegations that he had allowed the importation of cancer-causing pesticides, judicial sources said.

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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's main labour unions said they will begin a three-day strike on July 20 after the government and private sector failed to implement a minimum wage law signed by President Goodluck Jonathan earlier this year.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Nationalisation of South Africa's mines needs to be debated and not dismissed, the head of Africa's top gold miner said on Wednesday as he warned about the damage such move could have on the country's economy.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Wednesday it was heading for a strike at the world's second largest platinum producer, Impala Platinum (Implats), because of a wage dispute.

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RABAT (Reuters) - Jobless protesters blocked a railway line in Morocco for a fourth day on Tuesday, forcing the state phosphate monopoly to use trucks to supply its plants, a source familiar with the matter said.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court threw out a lawsuit accusing the Firestone tire company of illegally using child labor in Liberia, but found that U.S. law allows companies to be held liable for human rights abuses abroad.

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Thousands fled the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Tuesday and the local university was shut after a week of clashes between an Islamist sect and military forces.

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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Tuesday it was struggling to keep up with an exodus of hungry Somali refugees and many emaciated children were dying of malnutrition along the way or after arriving in neighbouring countries.