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Africa

• Algerian editor accuses government of censorship

  An editor has accused Algeria's government of censorship after it blocked the publication of his two newspapers. Hicham Aboud, editor of the My ... 

• Zimbabwe PM: We will end police, military abuse

  Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Sunday his party will end years of bias and abuse by the police, military and intelligence services and ... 

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  Pedrosa wins French MotoGP to take overall lead

  Dani Pedrosa won the French Grand Prix on Sunday for his second victory of the season and took over the MotoGP championship lead from Marc Marquez. 

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  Tunisia security blocks salafi conference

  Around 11,000 police officers and soldiers blocked an annual conference Sunday at Tunisia's main religious center by a radical Islamist movement that ... 

• Kenya police kill "terror couple"

  Police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight stand-off, a police ... 

• Blasts rock Libya's capital and eastern city

  Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported. A security ... 

• Ivory Coast army arrests militia leader

  A militia leader accused of grave crimes during Ivory Coast's 2010-11 postelection violence was taken into custody Saturday not far from the national ... 

• Journalist found dead in eastern Congo

  The body of a Congolese journalist was found on the bank of the Ngezi River near the provincial capital of Bunia in eastern Congo, the city's mayor ... 

• Nigeria military declares 24-hour curfew in city

  Nigeria's military declared a 24-hour curfew Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern city that's the spiritual home of an Islamic extremist ... 

• Young British girl drowns at Egyptian resort

  A senior Egyptian prosecutor says a 5-year-old British girl has drowned in pool at a Red Sea resort. The official, who obtained an initial police ... 

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  Egyptians targeted with blasphemy charges

  The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders. 

• Egypt Muslim-Christian clashes leave 1 dead

  Egyptian security officials say clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria left one man dead of a heart ... 

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  Egypt security forces clash with Cairo protesters

  Egyptian security forces have fired tear gas at protesters hurling firebombs at them in central Cairo, hours after hundreds of opponents of Egypt's ... 

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  Official: Nigeria military attacks camps, kills 21

  Soldiers in Nigeria launched their first raid against suspected Islamic extremists in a campaign to take back control of the nation's northeast, ... 

• Egypt police close Gaza border to protest kidnap

  Dozens of disgruntled border policemen forced the closure of Egypt's main crossing point into the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest the abduction of ... 

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  Woman describes Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' parties

  Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up ... 

• UN chief names Dutch envoy to head Mali mission

  U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Albert Koenders of the Netherlands to head the new peacekeeping mission in Mali. The mission is ... 

• Zimbabwe PM confident he'll oust Mugabe in vote

  Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday he is poised to sweep to victory in upcoming presidential elections and return the nation to the ... 

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  23 dead in initiation rites in South Africa

  Twenty-three youths have died in the past nine days at initiation ceremonies that include circumcisions and survival tests, South African police said ... 

• S. Sudan: Doctors Without Borders hospital ruined

  The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders says one of its medical facilities located in a rural but violent region of South Sudan has been ... 

• Coptic cleric says he will sue Israeli police

  An Egyptian Coptic cleric who was mistreated during Orthodox Easter services is threatening to sue. Video supplied to The Associated Press shows ... 

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  Obama acts on scandals; Republicans unsatisfied

  President Barack Obama, seeking to regain his footing amid controversies hammering the White House, named a temporary chief for the scandal-marred ... 

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  7 Egyptian security personnel abducted in Sinai

  Suspected militants in Egypt's Sinai abducted seven security personnel as they headed to Cairo for holidays early Thursday, security officials said. 

• Greek police arrest 2 accused of racist abuse

  Police on Thursday arrested two Greek men on suspicion of attacking a Cameroonian national and setting fire to his coffee bar in a central Athens ...