The head of the Libyan rebel’s armed forces and two of his aides were killed by gunmen Thursday, the head of the rebel leadership said.

The death of Abdel Fattah Younes was announced at a press conference in the de facto rebel capital, Benghazi, by the head of the rebels’ National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul Jalil. He told reporters that rebel security had arrested the head of the group behind the killing.

Rebel security had arrested Younes and two of his aides early on Thursday from their operations room near the rebels’ eastern front.

Security officials said at the time that Younes was to be questioned about suspicions his family still had ties to Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.

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A Kosovo policeman seriously injured during a border clash on Monday night has died.

The 31-year-old officer was shot in the head when a police convoy came under fire in a Serb dominated area.

The violence occurred during a botched bid by Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian government to take control of two border posts in an ethnic Serb area.

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The Armed Forces has arrested the commander of the Justice and Equality Movement - South Kordofan Sector (Hamad) who formed a military faction of the movement at the Nuba Mountains area after the rebel movement was defeated in Al-Tais area.

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Some of Somali parliamentarians, hailing form Gedo region, have said they against the formation of the new Azania state which was recently established in Nairobi, the capital of neighboring Kenya.

Speaking to local media, Abdurrahman Yusuf Diriye, a Somali lawmaker, said the Azania administration doesn’t represent the clans of Somalia, spelling out that the MPs from Gedo don’t recognize the existence of the administration which led by Mohamed Gandi, former defense minister of Somalia.

Diriye charged Azania with stoking the ongoing battles in parts of Gedo region in southern Somalia.

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Officials from Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland and local Islamist militiamen met after years of hostilities to discuss and reach agreement, officials said.

The meeting took place in parts of Nugal region of northern Somalia where a delegation representing Mohamed Said Atom, the leader of Puntland’s Islamist militiamen and officials from the administration of Punland.

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The Norwegian man charged with the attacks in and near Oslo that killed over 90 people has admitted “to the facts” of the case, the police and his lawyer said on Sunday, and says he acted alone in a strike eerily foretold in a detailed manifesto calling for a Christian war to defend Europe against the threat of Muslim domination.

But “he is not admitting criminal guilt,” the acting police chief in Oslo, Sveinung Sponheim, told a news conference, and his claim to have acted alone contrasted with “some of the witness statements,” Reuters reported.

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Twin shooting and bomb attacks have left at least 17 dead in Norway after a gunman disguised as a policeman opened fire at a youth camp and a bomb blast tore through government buildings.

Many were also reported wounded overnight from the expolsion in central Oslo and the shooting at a summer school meeting of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg’s ruling Labour Party on an island outside the capital.

Authorities were reeling, with police saying they had no clue who or what was behind the attack, but the gunman behind the shooting had been arrested.

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