LOST IN THE DARK RIDE

The Rwandan and Congolese presidents agree to attend a summit aimed at ending conflict in DR Congo, the EU says.

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Libya pays $1.5bn into a US compensation fund for victims of terror attacks blamed on Tripoli in the 1980s.

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Reports say that the British SAS reservist commander in Afghanistan has resigned in protest at poor equipment.

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Dissident members of South Africa’s governing ANC are meeting to discuss the formation of a breakaway movement.

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Police in Croatia charge five suspects in connection with the murder of prominent journalist Ivo Pukanic.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel, famous for oral history, dies peacefully at the age of 96.

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An Italian investors’ group says it will go ahead with a rescue offer for Alitalia, despite lack of agreement with some unions.

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Archaeologists unearth the campsite of a marooned sailor said to have inspired the fictional Robinson Crusoe.

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Floods in Vietnam kill at least 24 people, including several in the capital Hanoi, during its heaviest rains for two decades.

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Sri Lanka’s navy destroys four rebel boats and kills 14 Tamil Tigers in a clash in the north, the government says.

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