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05/21/2012 15:23 GMT

KHARTOUM, May 21, 2012 (AFP) - Gunfire broke out on Monday at a refugee camp on the Sudanese border with Eritrea during a clash between refugees and police that left one policeman wounded, witnesses said.

About 300 people had gathered outside the administration office of Shagarab camp, which is largely populated by Eritreans, to protest security conditions, a local aid worker said.

They were upset after the recent kidnapping of asylum seekers from inside the camp, according to the witness.

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05/21/2012 13:19 GMT

JUBA, May 21, 2012 (AFP) - Sudan and South Sudan will this week set a date to restart face-to-face peace talks after bitter border conflict and the missing of a UN deadline, African Union mediator Thabo Mbeki said Monday.

Mbeki, a former South African president, heads the AU mediation team for the talks, which were suspended after heavy clashes last month between former civil war foes in Khartoum and Juba.

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05/21/2012 14:08 GMT

BAGHDAD, May 21, 2012 (AFP) - Shootings and bombings killed three people and wounded nine in central Iraq on Monday, security officials said.

"Two policemen were killed and three others wounded when gunmen attacked a checkpoint in Taji," north of Baghdad, an interior ministry official said on condition of anonymity.

Gunmen broke into a house in Dujail in Salaheddin province and killed an old woman, whose son was also killed by gunmen last year, a police official said.

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05/21/2012 11:24 GMT

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Finale Emilia, Italy, May 21, 2012 (AFP) - Several thousand Italians were sheltering in cars and makeshift tent cities Monday as a series of aftershocks rattled towns across the northeast after a strong quake killed six people.

Sunday's 6.0 magnitude quake reduced homes and historic buildings to rubble in the densely-populated Ferrara area, Italy's industrial heartland but also home to priceless architectural and art treasures.

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05/21/2012 12:58 GMT

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BAMAKO, May 21, 2012 (AFP) - A last-minute deal signed with Mali's junta on a transition government solved a political impasse, but as mediators left on Monday, a crisis in the rebel-hold north loomed large over the new leaders.

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) mediators wrapped up a mission to Mali after securing their choice for transition president by offering the leader of a March 22 coup the status of former head of state.

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05/21/2012 10:26 GMT

HARARE, May 21, 2012 (AFP) - Zimbabwe's justice minister said Monday that reports of torture and violence against political activists were "lies", during a visit by UN rights chief Navi Pillay.

"There is no state-sponsored violence, these are all lies. We told her that there are no torture chambers in Zimbabwe," Patrick Chinamasa said after an hour-long meeting with the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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05/21/2012 10:07 GMT

Seoul, May 21, 2012 (AFP) - Food shortages have worsened in North Korea, even in the southwestern rice belt where some residents have starved to death, a Seoul-based online newspaper said Monday.

"Because of worsening food shortages this year there were reports of people starving to death even in South and North Hwanghae provinces," a Daily NK reporter told AFP, referring to the country's agricultural heartland.

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21/05/2012 08h51 GMT

GOMA (RDCongo), 21 mai 2012 (AFP) - Des soldats sont arrivés dimanche dans la province du Nord-Kivu, dans l'est de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC), pour renforcer l'armée qui combat des mutins ex-rebelles, a-t-on appris lundi de source militaire.

"Nous avons renforcé les rangs des FARDC (Forces armées) avec de nouvelles unités afin de chasser les mutins de toutes leurs positions" dans le territoire de Rutshuru, frontalier du Rwanda et de l'Ouganda, a déclaré à l'AFP un colonel loyaliste basé dans le Rutshuru.

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05/21/2012 11:11 GMT

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SANAA, May 21, 2012 (AFP) - A Yemeni soldier packing powerful explosives under his uniform blew himself up in the middle of an army battalion in Sanaa Monday, killing 96 troops and wounding around 300, a military official and medics said.

The suicide attack was the deadliest in the country's capital since newly-elected President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi pledged to oust Al-Qaeda militants from Yemen's mostly lawless and restive southern and eastern provinces.

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05/21/2012 07:52 GMT

KHARTOUM, May 21, 2012 (AFP) - Thousands of ethnic South Sudanese have been flown to South Sudan in a major airlift that entered its second week on Monday, the International Organisation for Migration said.

"As of the end of yesterday we have airlifted about 3,600," an IOM officer told AFP.

She said the number of daily charter flights between Khartoum and the South Sudanese capital Juba has doubled to four since the operation began on May 14, and could peak at six in coming days.

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05/21/2012 13:27 GMT

DAMASCUS, May 21, 2012 (AFP) - Syrian forces ambushed and killed nine army deserters in a north Damascus suburb on Monday, a human rights watchdog said, as NATO ruled out military action against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

The bloodletting also appeared to spill over into neighbouring Lebanon where two people were killed overnight in street battles between pro- and anti-Syrian groups in Beirut, a security official said.

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05/20/2012 16:37 GMT

TRIPOLI (Liban), 20 mai 2012 (AFP) - Un dignitaire religieux sunnite libanais sympathisant de la révolte syrienne et un cheikh qui l'accompagnait ont été tués par des tirs de l'armée dans le nord du Liban, selon les services de sécurité, provoquant un regain de tension dans cette région du pays.

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05/21/2012 00:27 GMT

BAMAKO, 21 mai 2012 (AFP) - Le chef des putschistes du 22 mars au Mali, le capitaine Amadou Sanogo, a obtenu le statut d'ex-président, avec tous les avantages dus à ce rang, et la période de transition a été fixée à douze mois, en vertu d'un accord conclu dimanche entre ex-junte, Bamako et l'Afrique de l'Ouest.

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05/20/2012 10:33 GMT

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ADEN, May 20, 2012 (AFP) - Yemen's army and air force supported by local militiamen and with US backing pressed an offensive to expel Al-Qaeda from their southern bastions, with fighting concentrated around the town of Jaar on Sunday.

"Violent clashes on Jaar's western outskirts between the army and Al-Qaeda are continuing," a military official said.

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05/21/2012 00:19 GMT

BAMAKO, May 21, 2012 (AFP) - The leader of putschists who ousted Mali's president in March will retain the title of former head of state and all privileges coming with it, interim authorities and the West African ECOWAS bloc said Sunday.

"Captain Amadou Sanogo has the status of former head of state. He will have all the benefits coming with his rank," Burkina Faso's Foreign Minister Djibrill Bassole, one of the mediators in the post-coup crisis, said on state radio.

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05/21/2012 02:01 GMT

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MAIduguri, Nigeria, May 21, 2012 (AFP) - Classrooms have been burnt, reduced to piles of broken glass and shards of cement, but children and teachers remain, squeezing into the part of the building still standing for lessons.

"We thought of closing, but there are parents who are still insisting that they must come and learn," said an English teacher at the school, one of several burnt by suspected members of Islamist group Boko Haram in this city.

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05/20/2012 10:25 GMT

KABUL, May 20, 2012 (AFP) - Flash floods triggered by torrential rains in northern Afghanistan killed at least 19 people and left thousands homeless, an official said on Sunday.

Another 56 people were missing after the flood hit on Saturday in Sayyad and Share Naw districts of Sari Pul province, the provincial governor Abdul Jabar Haqbeen told AFP.

"More than a thousand families have been affected and a thousand homes destroyed," he said, adding that rescuers were in the area, backed by Afghan and NATO air support.

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05/20/2012 10:34 GMT

KATHMANDU, May 20, 2012 (AFP) - Strikes brought widespread violence to Nepal's largest two cities on Sunday, just a week ahead of a deadline for the impoverished Himalayan nation to complete its first peace-time constitution.

Police said they arrested more than 70 people in the capital, Kathmandu, and second city, Pokhara, where shops were forced to close, drivers warned off roads and journalists covering the protests attacked.

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05/20/2012 11:35 GMT

AMMAN, May 20, 2012 (AFP) - The United Nations said on Sunday that 480 Palestinian refugees have fled Syria to Jordan since the start of a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's regime last year.

"The UN Relief and Works Agency have registered 480 Palestinian refugees who have sought refuge in Jordan since the beginning of the crisis in Syria," UNRWA spokeswoman, Anwar Abu Sakina, told AFP.

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05/20/2012 15:44 GMT

KINSHASA, May 20, 2012 (AFP) - Fresh clashes between the DR Congo's army and a group of mutineers erupted Sunday in the eastern province of Nord-Kivu, defectors said, a day after fierce battles near a gorilla park.

"We're on the ground. We've been confronting the FARDC (the Democratic Republic of Congo's military) since this morning three kilometres (two miles) from Bunagana ... where we were yesterday," Vianney Kazarana, a spokesman for the mutineers' March 23 Movement, told AFP by telephone.

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