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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria has imposed earlier closing times on nightclubs, beer gardens and cinemas in the capital Abuja and banned parking on two of the city's major roads after a bomb attack at police headquarters two weeks ago.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police fired tear gas in Cairo's central Tahrir Square on Wednesday at hundreds of mainly young protesters, some of whom threw stones and demanded that trials of former senior officials proceed more swiftly.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao said on Wednesday that relations with Sudan would remain good no matter what changes may occur as the African nation prepares for its south to secede.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The debate about nationalisation of South Africa's mines could hit companies' ability to raise capital for sustaining or growing output, the Business Day reported on Wednesday.

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xinhua
NAIROBI, June 29 (Xinhua)--About 2.5 million people are in need of emergency humanitarian assistance in Somalia, a UN humanitarian agency said.

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xinhua
TRIPOLI/BRUSSELS, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Three months of NATO airstrikes have left Libya with masses of debris and no sign of it scaling down, as the future for Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi remains gloomy.

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CAIRO, June 29 (Xinhua) -- An Egyptian criminal court upheld on Tuesday the decision by the prosecution to sequestrate all the assets of fugitive businessman Hussein Salem, a close associate of former President Hosni Mubarak, state news agency MENA reported.

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xinhua
Fierce clashes erupted late Tuesday night between Egyptian security forces and young protestors in the Tahrir Square in central Cairo, local media reported.

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xinhua
BENGHAZI, Libya, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Bulgaria and Croatia recognized on Tuesday the Libyan opposition National Transitional Council (NTC) as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people.

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TRIPOLI, June 28 (Xinhua) -- A NATO airstrike killed eight civilians and injured some others Tuesday at a market in the town of Tawragha, 300 km east of the Libyan capital Tripoli, said Libya's official news agency.

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DUBAI, June 28 (Xinhua) -- South Sudan has chosen the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the destination to establish its first embassy in the Gulf Arab region, with the aim of boosting trade relations between the two sides, the vice president of South Sudan 's government said Tuesday.

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VIENNA, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Austria will recognize South Sudan as a sovereign state on July 9, 2011, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

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TUNIS, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of lorry trucks loaded with rice and flour were queuing up at dawn on Tuesday at the Ras El Jedir crossing border point to receive customs clearance before entering Libya, the official TAP press agency reported.

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TRIPOLI, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Six powerful explosions struck the eastern suburb of Tajuraa in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Tuesday, a Xinhua correspondent said.

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xinhua
ALGIERS, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Algeria security services managed foiling an attempt to smuggle 67 kg drugs on the border with Morocco.

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xinhua
TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, June 28 (Xinhua) -- The arrest warrant for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi issued Monday by the International Criminal Court (ICC) aroused both opposition and support around the world.

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xinhua
LAGOS, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's troubled city Maiduguri was hit by a new bombing attack on Monday, in which at least two people were killed and several others injured, according to security sources.

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xinhua
MAPUTO, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Mozambican will soon sign agreements for new projects with the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (ABEDA), the Finance Ministry said on Monday.

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ALGIERS, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Speaker of Algerian Council of the Nation (upper house of Parliament) Abdelkader Bensalah, met on Monday in Algiers the secretary of Foreign Affairs at the General People's Congress of Libya Slimane Chahoumi.

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TUNIS, June 27 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns said his country will spare no efforts to support Tunisia's transition, TAP reported on Monday.