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The Libyan government postponed the prime minister's first visit to the east of the country late Sunday, hours after an advance security team was turned back from Benghazi airport, a source told AFP. A cabinet meeting scheduled for Monday in the city would also have...

Around 100 migrants tried to swim to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco, Spanish police said Monday. The migrants set off Sunday from beaches in Fnideq, a few kilometres south of Ceuta and "some" managed to reach a beach in Ceuta on their own while...

Egyptian authorities executed nine people Monday over the storming of a police station in 2013 in which 13 policemen were killed, a security source said. The executions took place "this morning", the source told AFP. Capital punishment for civilian convicts in Egypt,...

Tunisia will send a delegation to Washington this week to seek global financial support for an economic reform programme, the prime minister's office said Monday. "A government team will head to Washington at the end of this week for a series of meetings with the...