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Supporters of the new faction tore up ANC membership cards and t-shirts [EPA]

Dissident members of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC)are meeting in Johannesburg to discuss forming a breakaway movement.

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Thais gather to hear Thaksin

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Up to 100,000 people are expected to attend the rally as a stadium in Bangkok [AFP]

Thousands of supporters of the Thai government have gathered in the capital Bangkok to listen to an address by Thaksin Shinawatra, the fugitive former prime minister.

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Sri Lanka navy 'kills Sea Tigers'

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The Tigers have been under attack from a military offensive in the north of the island [AFP]
Sri Lanka's navy says it has destroyed four Tamil Tiger boats killing at least 14 fighters in a battle off the island's northern coast.

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US candidates target key states

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Barack Obama attacked McCain again on the economy [AFP]

The US presidential candidates have continued targeting crucial swing states as their campaigning reaches fever pitch in the last few days before the US election.

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Libya pays US victims of attacks

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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is in Moscow on a trip that could revive military ties with Russia [AFP]
Libya has paid $1.5bn into a fund that will compensate US victims of attacks it carried out in the 1980s, in a move expected to establish full diplomatic and economic ties between Washington and Tripoli.

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Austrian hostages released in Mali

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Ebner, 51, disappeared in February while on holiday in Tunisia [EPA]
Two Austrian hostages kidnapped by al-Qaeda's North African offshoot in the Tunisian desert in February have been freed, the Austrian foreign ministry says.

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Japan general fired over war essay

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Not everyone in Japan agrees with the government's remorse over the country's war-time actions [EPA]
Japan's air force chief has been dismissed after publishing an essay that claimed Japan was pushed into the second world war by the US and was not an "aggressor" in the conflict in Asia.

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Russia replaces Ingushetia leader

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The mainly Muslim region of Ingushetia has emerged as Russia's latest Caucasus trouble spot [AFP]
Russia has appointed Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, a paratroop commander, as the new leader of Ingushetia.

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Missiles hit Pakistani towns

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Several police officers were killed in a suicide attack in Mardan in Pakistan's northwest on Friday [AFP]
At least 27 people have died in two missile attacks by suspected US drones on towns in Pakistan's North and South Waziristan regions.

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