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Egyptian delegation meets with Ugandan president on Nile issues

Nile Basin States
07 Apr 2011
A 40-member Egyptian delegation has held talks with Uganda's president on a new treaty signed by upstream countries for the equitable sharing of Nile waters, an official said Thursday. The Egyptian delegation reportedly included three...
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Residents shelter from mortars in Libya's Misrata

An injured rebel fighter is brought to a hospital in the flashpoint town of Ras Lanuf, March 8, 2011, as Libya's air force carries out raids, on this rebel-held oil town.
07 Apr 2011
Algiers/Beirut -- People in the Libyan city of Misrata are crammed five families to a house in the few safe districts to try to escape mortars raining down from government forces, a rebel spokesman said on Thursday. Troops loyal to Libyan...
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Two injured by Gaza mortar, Israel hits back

Palestinians inspect a destroyed plastics factory in Gaza City, April 6, 2011, after Israeli aircraft attacked two targets in the Gaza Strip wounding four people, among them a pregnant woman, Palestinian medics and witnesses said.
07 Apr 2011
Jerusalem -- A mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel Thursday hit a bus, seriously wounding a teenage boy and injuring several others, Israeli police said. Israeli forces immediately struck back, shelling various locations...
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Ivory Coast strongman holds out for time in bunker

07 Apr 2011
Abidjan -- Forces allied with Ivory Coast's internationally recognized president said they planned to regroup Thursday and again attack the compound where strongman Laurent Gbagbo remains holed up in an underground bunker refusing to...
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Rebels say Qadhafi halts oil, Libya blames Britain

07 Apr 2011
Tripoli -- Libya accused Britain of damaging an oil pipeline in an air strike, hours after rebels said government attacks had halted production of oil they hope to sell to finance their uprising. "British warplanes have attacked, have...
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Qadhafi asks Obama to end air strikes in a letter

Libyan president Moamer Gadhafi.
06 Apr 2011
Washington -- Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi appealed directly to President Barack Obama on Wednesday to end what Qadhafi called "an unjust war," and he wished Obama good luck in his bid for re-election next year. "You are a...
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Assad holds Syria army despite Sunni-Alawite divide

06 Apr 2011
Amman -- Senior Syrian army ranks are packed with loyal members of President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, reducing any prospect of military pressure on him to stand aside if protests grow, military experts say. Unlike the armies...
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Scores missing after Libya refugee boat capsizes

06 Apr 2011
Rome -- Scores were missing on Wednesday after a small boat carrying more than 200 African migrants fleeing Libya capsized in rough seas, with Italian coast guards managing to pluck 48 survivors from the water. Coast guard spokesman...
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Protesters in Yemen defy govt, return to streets

06 Apr 2011
Sanaa -- Defying a deadly government crackdown, tens of thousands of protesters on Wednesday poured into the streets of Yemen's second largest city in the latest demonstrations against the long serving president. Two groups of...
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Sudan accuses Israel of attack near port city

06 Apr 2011
Khartoum -- Sudan's Foreign Minister Ali Karti on Wednesday accused Israel of carrying out an attack on Tuesday near Port Sudan that killed two people and said Khartoum reserved the right to react to the aggression. "This is...
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