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TUNIS (Reuters) - A protracted struggle for Libya could leave it in the hands of extremists instead of the liberal economic technocrats who now lead its rebel movement, the World Bank's representative for Libya said on Thursday.

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PRETORIA (Reuters) - The biggest risk to South Africa's inflation outlook in the near future remains global food and oil prices, the Reserve Bank said on Friday.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African union representing workers in the petroleum, pharmaceutical, chemicals and consumer good sectors said on Friday it will launch a nation-wide wage strike next week after talks failed.

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RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco's King Mohammed is widely tipped to win Friday's referendum on a revised constitution he has offered to placate "Arab Spring" street protests, but a low voter turnout could still spur demands for bolder changes.

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CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's government said on Thursday it would push ahead with plans to organise by year-end a legislative election that is tied to aid from the European Union and other donors, despite objections from the opposition.

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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The U.N. envoy to Ivory Coast urged the government on Thursday to restore law and order by deploying police and sending former rebels who helped President Alassane Ouattara seize power back to their barracks.

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The United States will resume limited contacts with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton confirmed on Thursday, saying it was in Washington's interests to deal with parties committed to non-violent politics.

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudan's government is allowing limited U.N. access to Kadugli, capital of a tense border state where fighting and looting has taken place ahead of southern secession, a U.N. spokesman said on Thursday.

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GENEVA (Reuters) - The top U.N. human rights official chided China on Thursday for failing to arrest Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on an international warrant for alleged war crimes when he visited Beijing this week.

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LONDON/BERLIN (Reuters) - Imported fenugreek seeds from Egypt may be the source of highly toxic E. coli outbreaks in Germany and France that have killed at least 48 people, according to initial investigations by European scientists.

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The United States will resume limited contacts with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton confirmed on Thursday, saying it was in Washington's interests to deal with parties committed to non-violent political activity.

20110630
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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court's deputy prosecutor rejected charges it unfairly targets Africa on Wednesday, saying the victims were also African and that indictments were led by referrals from Africans themselves.

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NAIROBI (Reuters) - The European Union wants Kenya to set a date for its next elections and pass laws ahead of time to avoid a repeat of chaos that erupted after the last national polls in east Africa's biggest economy.

20110630
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SALE, Morocco (Reuters) - Authorities in Morocco adjourned to August 18 the trial on Thursday of suspects in an April 28 bomb attack on a cafe in the resort of Marrakesh that killed 17 people, including eight French nationals.

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NEW YORK/MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - France said it did not break a U.N. arms embargo by airlifting weapons to Libya's rebels because the arms were needed to defend civilians under threat.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African mobile phone operators Vodacom and MTN Group suffered network outages on Thursday, frustrating users who tried to make calls or use the Internet.

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JOHANNESBURG, June 30 (Reuters Life!) - South Africa's national taxi service, often derided for its reckless drivers, shoddy vehicles and cramped interiors, aims to launch a budget airline in September, one of its officials said on Thursday.

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KHARTOUM/JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - North and south Sudan have agreed to form a demilitarized buffer zone at their joint border to defuse tensions ahead of southern secession on July 9, the African Union (AU) said on Wednesday.

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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia believes two journalists it detained last week planned to sabotage the country's power and phone lines and recruit others to work with arch-foe Eritrea to destabilise it, a police chief said on Wednesday.

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ADDIS ABABA/JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Sudan agreed on Wednesday to bring some former rebels into the its army and the south played down a northern threat to shut oil pipelines, as the country's halves scramble to prepare for the south's looming secession.