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HARARE, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Zimbabwe's Energy and Power Development Minister Elton Mangoma was arrested Thursday, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC party said.

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TRIPOLI, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi launched on Thursday another bombardment against the eastern town of Ras Lanuf, Al-Arabiya news network reported.

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ATHENS, March 10 (Xinhua) -- A representative of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi held talks with Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Dimitris Dollis here Thursday morning, but no details were released on what was discussed.

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BRUSSELS, March 10 (Xinhua) -- NATO surveillance aircraft will monitor Libyan airspace around-the-clock to gather more information on the ground for decision-making, the alliance's chief said Thursday.

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ALGIERS, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Turmoil-hit Libya has asked Algeria to lead an initiative in the U.N Security Council to lift its recently-slapped measures on Libya, Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci told local daily el-Khabar on Thursday.

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CAIRO, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Clashes between Egyptian Muslims and Coptic Christians escalated on Tuesday after Coptic protestors blocked a main road in Cairo for more than two hours.

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TRIPOLI/RAS LANUF, Libya (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made it clear Washington believes any decision to impose a no-fly zone over Libya is a matter for the United Nations and should not be a U.S.-led initiative.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Outgoing Arab League chief Amr Moussa said on Tuesday he wanted Egyptian presidential elections to come before people vote for a new parliament and said he would run for president for only one term.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday warned Zimbabwe it could face international penalties if it helped Iran's nuclear program in defiance of U.N. sanctions and a global arms treaty.

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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe will use revenue from diamond sales to repay part of its external debt totalling $7.1 billion, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Tuesday.

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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court said on Tuesday it was issuing a summons to six suspects in Kenya's post-election violence, a move that could destabilise the country's coalition cabinet which is divided over the issue.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - The Egyptian central bank's unofficial reserves plummeted by $3.3 billion in February, bringing its total decline in foreign currency assets during the month of political unrest to $5 billion, the bank said.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's president plans to create two additional states in the western Darfur territory, officials said, in what rebels described as bid to curb their influence and strengthen central control from Khartoum.

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CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa would prefer a new global trade deal that boosts development rather than take a quick deal without such assurances, the country's trade minister said on Tuesday.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Zambia's President Rupiah Banda expects his MMD party to score an easy victory in an election in Africa's biggest copper producer that he says will be coming in a matter of months.

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MOGADISHU, March 5 (Xinhua) -- The African Union (AU) peacekeeping forces in Mogadishu on Saturday said that they have foiled a suicide car bomb attack by Islamist rebels on the forces base.

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MOGADISHU, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Somali government on Saturday said it recaptured the southern border town of Beledhawo from Islamist fighters of Al Shabaab following days of fierce battles. "Our forces are now fully in control of Beledhawo. We have succeeded in driving out the anti-peace forces from the town after they have been oppressing its people for long," Abdelhakim Mohamoud Haji Fiqi, Somali defense minister said in a news conference in Mogadishu.

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ALGIERS, March 5 (Xinhua) -- The Algerian police on Saturday banned several marches organized by the National Coordination for Change and Democracy (CNCD), to demand wide political reforms.

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TUNIS, March 5 (Xinhua) -- The UN is willing to help Tunisia organize the elections of the country's first Constituent Assembly due on July 24, UN Secretary General's special envoy Jamel Amor said Saturday, official TAP news agency reported.

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TRIPOLI, March 5 (Xinhua) -- The situation in the Libyan capital remained relatively calm Friday although anti-government forces and loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi reportedly clashed in a western town.