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UN extends Darfur peacekeeping force

The Security Council on Monday unanimously approved a one-year extension of the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan’s western Darfur region where conflict is intensifying, rejecting the Sudanese government’s demand that the troops leave. A resolution adopted by the UN’s most powerful body keeps the size of the force …

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Tunisia investigates Libya link to beach attacker

A Tunisian gunman who killed 39 people at a resort hotel, mostly British holiday-makers, probably spent time in a training camp in Libya and had been in contact with militants over the border, a security source said on Tuesday. The attack on the Imperial Marhaba beach hotel in the popular …

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Over 21 Libyan soldiers killed in clashes this week

Fighting raged between government forces and Islamists in eastern Libya on Tuesday, with 21 soldiers killed since the clashes broke out at the weekend, a medical official said. The continued fighting came a day after UN envoy Bernardino Leon said he hoped the rival parliaments in the largely lawless North …

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