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ZAWIYAH/BIN JAWAD, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan government forces launched a second attack on the western town of Zawiyah on Saturday after rebels drove them out in a morning of fierce fighting, while in the east, opponents of Muammar Gaddafi pushed towards his home town.

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ZAWIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi launched a new attack on the western town of Zawiyah on Saturday, with tanks shelling a rebel-held central square, residents said.

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Militias burned down a village in Sudan's contested Abyei region on Saturday, a southern official said.

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The African Union's peacekeeping force in Somalia (AMISOM) captured a key position from al Shabaab rebels in the capital, losing several troops in the fighting, its force commander said on Saturday.

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LONDON (Reuters) - African workers trapped in Libya are the most vulnerable of the foreigners scrambling to flee the country, the United Nations refugee chief said on Saturday, warning that hundreds of thousands of lives were at risk.

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PARIS/BOUAKE, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers in Ivory Coast will be reinforced by 2,000 soldiers and have received two combat helicopters to face worsening violence between rival political factions, a U.N. official said.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's new prime minister told thousands of demonstrators in Tahrir Square on Friday he was committed to the goals of their revolution and promised to take to the streets in protest if he could not deliver.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - A state security building on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital was set alight on Saturday, a security source said, one day after some 200 protesters stormed state security headquarters in the coastal city of Alexandria.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian criminal court on Saturday began the first hearing in the case against former Interior Minister Habib al-Adli, charged with money laundering and profiteering, the state news agency MENA reported.

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ABIDJAN/NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo has paid over 60 percent of civil servant salaries, his government said Friday, suggesting Western sanctions meant to starve him of funds and force him to leave have not had full effect.

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Benin's presidential election, originally scheduled for March 6, was postponed to March 13, media reports quoted the country's constitutional court as saying on Friday.

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TRIPOLI, March 4 (Xinhua) -- 12 people were killed and 26 injured in two blasts of weapon depot near Libya's western city of Benghazi on Friday, Al-Jazeera TV reported.

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ANKARA, March 4 (Xinhua) -- A ship carrying more than 800 Syrians from Libya arrived in a southwestern Turkish port on Friday as Turkey continued to evacuate foreigners from the violence-hit North African country.

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BRUSSELS, March 4 (Xinhua) -- The international police organization Interpol on Friday issued an Orange Notice against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and 15 others, including his family members and close associates, according to a statement posted on the Interpol website.

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TUNIS, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Tunisia's new caretaker prime minister Beji Caid Essebsi said he would name a new government within two days, whose priority would be to restore order, and boost the country's battered economy.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's forces battled rebels on several fronts in a worsening of Libya's crisis on Friday and unrest erupted in the capital when gunmen fired to break up crowds shouting "Gaddafi is the enemy of God".

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Shooting rang out across a district of the Libyan capital on Friday as forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi tried to break up a crowd of protesters shouting "Gaddafi is the enemy of God!"

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LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria has completed a new 74-million-strong voter register it hopes will help ensure credible elections next month, but insecurity and the partiality of the courts remain challenges to a free and fair vote.

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ABIDJAN/NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo has paid over 60 percent of civil servant salaries, his government said on Friday, suggesting Western sanctions meant to starve him of funds and force him to leave have not had full effect.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Zimbabweans want a new election this year, despite violence it could unleash, while support for the opposition group that entered into power sharing with President Robert Mugabe has crumbled, a survey shows.