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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi survived a NATO air strike on a Tripoli house that killed his youngest son Saif al-Arab and three young grandchildren, a government spokesman said on Sunday.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Rebel chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil said on Sunday he felt "pain and sorrow" even for Muammar Gaddafi's family following a NATO air strike on his house in Tripoli, but blamed the Libyan leader for the violence.

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ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's president on Sunday said former Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny would head a truth and reconciliation commission, set up to heal divisions after months of conflict.

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DEHIBA, Tunisia (Reuters) - Artillery fire from forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi landed in the Tunisian border town of Dehiba on Sunday, a Reuters correspondent in the town said.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has decided to expel the Libyan ambassador after its embassy in Tripoli was attacked, Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Sunday.

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GENEVA (Reuters) - The top U.N. human rights official urged Uganda on Sunday to halt "excessive force" against demonstrators, which she said had turned peaceful protests over food and fuel prices into a national crisis.

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OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso opposition parties on Saturday demanded long-serving President Blaise Compaore step down, blaming him for provoking a wave of violence in the West African nation.

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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A NATO air strike destroyed 45 vehicles of Muammar Gaddafi's forces after they had killed at least five civilians in fighting in two east Libyan towns, an oil official and a rebel spokesman said on Sunday.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain cannot confirm reports that a son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was killed in a NATO air strike, junior Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt said on Sunday.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Shattered glass litters the carpet at the Libyan Down's Syndrome Society, and dust covers pictures of grinning children that adorn the hallway, thrown into darkness by a NATO strike early on Saturday.

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Both the MDC-T and ZANU PF have now ruled out the holding of fresh elections this year to break the political deadlock in the country.

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At least five people are confirmed dead as a result of fatal gunshot wounds after a bloody day of rioting, bringing the death toll to 10 people killed since demonstrations began three weeks ago.

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Washington — The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Friday removed the private Bank of Khartoum from a blacklist of Sudanese entities and individuals subjected to economic sanctions since 1997.

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Nigeria is among the world's most dangerous countries. Nigeria has the seventh largest population in the world (nearly 160 million), and that population is a potentially explosive mixture of peoples, regions, and religions - a mixture of almost infinite complexity.

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A defiant Moamer Kadhafi says he will not quit as Libyan leader, but is ready to hold talks with France and the United States.

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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo will hold its second post-war presidential and legislative elections on November 28, the electoral commission said on Saturday, a vote seen as a test of President Joseph Kabila's commitment to democracy.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Saturday he was ready for a ceasefire and negotiations provided NATO "stop its planes", but he refused to give up power as rebels and Western powers demand.

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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni vowed on Saturday to 'defeat' a wave of deadly protests triggered by rising food and fuel prices.

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MARRAKESH (Reuters) - Morocco was counting the cost to its vital tourism industry on Friday from an explosion at a busy Marrakesh cafe that killed 15 people in an attack described by the government as a terrorist act.

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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's ruling party has won delayed governorship elections in two northern states where hundreds died in rioting after a vote two weeks ago.