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ABIDJAN/BOUAKE, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Rebels controlling northern Ivory Coast have seized a town in government territory and said on Friday they were still advancing, raising the prospects of a return to open war.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama consulted the leaders of Britain, France and Italy on Thursday on immediate steps to end the Libyan crisis, as Washington kept all options open, including sanctions and military action, to stem the bloodshed.

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RAS JDIR, Tunisia (Reuters) - Libyan security forces tried to seize back control of the coastal town of Zawiyah, about 50 km (30 miles) west of the capital, but were driven back by government opponents, witnesses said on Friday.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi vowed defiantly on Friday to triumph over his enemies, vigorously urging supporters in Tripoli's Green Square to protect the Libyan nation and its petroleum interests.

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Government forces shot dead at least two protesters in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Friday, television stations reported, as a popular uprising against Muammar Gaddafi closed in on his main power base.

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BANGKOK, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- The first batch of 400 Thai workers who were evacuated from Libya to Turkey will board an aircraft to Thailand and are expected to arrive in Bangkok on Saturday, the deputy director general Prawit Kiangphon.

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TRIPOLI, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's cousin and one of his closest aides, Ahmed Gaddafi al-Dam, said he resigned from his all posts in Libya, the pan-Arab Al-Arabiya TV said, citing an e-mail sent from al-Dam's office on Friday.

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KHARTOUM, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-seven people were killed in renewed clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and rebel groups in Sudan's Darfur region on Thursday, said a statement issued by the SAF on Friday.

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ADDIS ABABA, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi held discussions with Russian envoy to Sudan Mikhail Margelov here Thursday on regional issues.

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BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Governments across the world continued to bring their citizens home from turbulent Libya Thursday, while Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is clinging to power despite nationwide protests.

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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- The South African government will send a plane to Libya to evacuate all its citizens still in that country, South Africa's international relations and cooperation department said on Thursday.

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HARARE, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- An agricultural official said on Thursday limited offshore finance has hampered agriculture recovery in Zimbabwe.

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KAMPALA, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- A grenade explosion accidentally killed four children and injured nine others in the northwestern Ugandan district of Moyo, a senior police officer in the district said on Thursday.

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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- A special South African police unit known as the Hawks on Thursday called for an investigation into how Nigerian rebel leader Henry Okah came to be in possession of eight cell phones while in prison in Johannesburg.

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TUNIS, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has deployed its staff at the Ras Jedir border point between Tunisia and Libya, where they have been working with the Tunisian Red Crescent and Tunisian authorities, reported the Tunisian official press agency, TAP on Thursday.

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LONDON (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary William Hague urged the world on Thursday to raise pressure on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and said Britain wanted an international investigation into the use of violence against protesters.

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TRIPOLI, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Troops belong to Muammar Gaddafi attacked the Libyan town of Zuara, 120 km west of the capital, the pan-Arab Al-Jazeera TV reported Thursday.

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ANKARA, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Two Turkish ferries carrying 3,037 passengers arrived in southwestern Turkey from Libya early on Thursday, local media reported.

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BANGKOK, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Thai Labor Ministry spokesman Sutham Nathithong said on Thursday that over 2,000 Thai workers have already left Libya and another 4,000 people would be vacated within one to two days.

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BEIJING, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Governments around the world scrambled to evacuate their citizens from unrest-hit Libya on Wednesday.