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By Muhammad Al Gebaly and Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty told U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday that Arab states rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s widely condemned plan to displace Palestinians in Gaza and take control of the enclave. Egypt’s foreign ministry said Abdelatty, in a meeting in Washington, stressed …

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By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -The party of South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma on Monday filed a treason complaint against AfriForum, a group championing the white Afrikaner minority, after Donald Trump attacked the country’s new law aimed at redistributing white-owned land. AfriForum has lobbied against the law in U.S. media and political circles, portraying …

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By Nellie Peyton and Sonia Rolley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa has sent additional troops and military equipment to Democratic Republic of Congo in recent days, political and diplomatic sources said, after 14 of its soldiers were killed in fighting with Rwanda-backed rebels last month. The South African reinforcement comes amid fears that fighting in …

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GENEVA (Reuters) -Some of the bodies of migrants found in two mass graves in Libya bore gunshot wounds, the International Organization for Migration said on Monday, adding that one of the sites is thought to contain up to 70 bodies. Libya’s attorney general said on Sunday that at least 28 bodies had been recovered from …

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