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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's main rival political parties on Saturday condemned a spate of violent clashes among their supporters, which Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai blames on President Robert Mugabe's youth brigades.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Opposition groups demanding the overthrow of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak have yet to agree on a common position ahead of negotiations with Vice President Omar Suleiman to pull Egypt out of its worst crisis in 30 years, opposition figures said on Saturday.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - President Hosni Mubarak was playing a familiar card when he claimed this week that the Muslim Brotherhood has orchestrated the mass protests that have brought his rule to the brink of collapse.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian army commander addressed thousands of demonstrators camped out at Tahrir Square in central Cairo on Saturday in an effort to persuade them to stop a protest that has stalled economic life in the capital.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Political leaders were meeting inside and outside Egypt on Saturday to seek a way out of a dangerous impasse between President Hosni Mubarak and demonstrators calling for him to step down.

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CAIRO (Reuters) - President Hosni Mubarak resigned as head of Egypt's ruling party on Saturday, television said.

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CAIRO, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- Egypt shortened its curfew time to 7 p. m. to 6 a.m. starting on Saturday from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m., state television said Friday.

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TUNIS, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- The European Union decided on Friday to freeze the assets of 46 relatives of former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, as well as those of his wife, Leila Trabelsi, the official press agency TAP reported on Friday.

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EL-ARISH, Egypt, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- A natural gas pipeline exploded on Saturday in El Arish in Egypt's North Sinai, after mass protests broke out in the country more than a week ago.

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NOUAKCHOTT, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of Mauritanians took to the streets in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, after the Friday prayers to demand immediate departure from power of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

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CAIRO, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday held a ministerial meeting attended by the prime minister, central bank governor, ministers of petroleum, social solidarity, trade and industry and finance, state media reported.

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KINSHASA, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Unidentified gunmen attacked an airport in the southeastern province of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) on Friday, killing one person and destroyed property, according to official sources.

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TUNIS (Reuters) - Two people being held in a police station in a Tunisian provincial town died after the building caught fire, prompting a protest by local people, local witnesses and official media reported.

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TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia will next week lift a state of emergency that was imposed last month by ousted President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali at the height of a popular revolt, Tourism Minister Mehdi Houass said on Friday.

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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's first rehabilitation centre for victims of sexual violence opened its doors on Friday, weeks after a new spate of mass rapes in its troubled east.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court refused to reconsider a lawsuit that accused Royal Dutch Shell Plc of helping Nigerian authorities violently suppress protests against oil exploration in the 1990s.

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MUNICH (Reuters) - The turmoil in Egypt, Tunisia and other Arab countries demonstrates the risk of insecurity caused by a "deficit of democracy", United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday.

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JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - At least 20 people died in a shootout between Sudanese soldiers in a southern town, the military said, warning there was a risk of more clashes as the country divided its forces before the south becomes independent.

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MUNICH (Reuters) - The Middle East faces a "perfect storm" of unrest and regional leaders must quickly enact real democratic reforms or risk even greater instability, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Saturday.

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MUNICH (Reuters) - European powers Germany and Britain urged Egypt on Saturday to change leaders rapidly but take its time holding elections, saying traditions of tolerance and fairness had to be built to make democracy work.