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Lieberman: Israel Won't Accept Egypt Treaty Changes

Israel will not accept alterations to its 1979 peace treaty with Egypt, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday, as ties between the two countries continue to fray.

"There is not the slightest possibility that Israel will accept the modification of the peace treaty with Egypt," Lieberman told Israeli public radio. "We will not accept any modification of the Camp David accords."

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Libyan Army Evicts Militia in Tripoli after Authorities Vow to Dissolve 'Unlawful' Groups

Libya's armed forces announced on Sunday that they had dislodged a militia from a military complex on the highway leading to Tripoli International Airport.

Commander in chief Yussef al-Mangush said on his Facebook page that members of the militia were arrested and that their weapons were confiscated.

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Morsi Advises U.S. to Change Policy Toward Arabs to Repair Ties

Egypt's new Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi, urged the United States late Saturday to change its approach to the Arab world to be able to repair relations and revitalize an alliance with Egypt.

Morsi will travel to New York on Sunday to take part in a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly.

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Ban, Brahimi Discuss Situation in Syria

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi met Saturday to discuss the situation in Syria, expressing hope that an upcoming U.N. General Assembly summit will help improve the humanitarian situation in the country.

In a statement released after the meeting, the United Nations said the two men focused on how to address what they called "the appalling levels of violence in Syria."

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Suicide Attack Wounds Yemeni Commander

A suicide attack in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Saturday wounded an army-linked militia commander involved in battling al-Qaida, security sources said, in the fifth attempt on his life.

The attacker blew himself up in front of the car of Abdel Latif Sayed, Abyan province commander for reserve forces fighting alongside the Yemeni army, wounding him and two others.

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Egypt Court Upholds Dissolution of Parliament

Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court on Saturday rejected an appeal by Islamists demanding the reinstatement of parliament, saying it was no longer legal, according to a judicial source.

"The parliament no longer exists legally since the June 14 ruling by the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC)" deeming it unconstitutional and ordering its dissolution, the Supreme Administrative Court said.

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U.N. Envoy Says Torture of Morocco Detainees Common

The U.N. special rapporteur on torture said on Saturday that the inhumane treatment of Moroccan detainees appeared to be "very frequent," and deplored the rise in the use of excessive force to quell protests.

"In ordinary cases (of detainees we investigated) torture, or cruel and inhumane treatment, was very frequent. Whether it is systematic is hard to obtain from the number of samples we took," Juan Mendez told reporters in Rabat at the end of a week-long visit.

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Jerusalem Palestinians Protest Anti-Islam Film, Cartoons

About 500 Palestinians on Saturday staged what banners proclaimed a "Festival of the followers of Mohammed" in east Jerusalem in protest against French cartoons and a U.S.-made film offensive to Islam.

"We are all faithful to Mohammed" and "Mohammed the Prophet of Islam," read the banners, brandished alongside flags of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement and the rival Islamist Hamas, in the city's Issawiya neighborhood, an Agence France Presse journalist said.

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Bombings Kill Six in Iraq

Roadside bombs in Iraq killed six people, among them five soldiers, and wounded 10 on Saturday, security and medical officials said.

In the deadliest attack, a roadside bomb killed five Iraqi soldiers when it exploded near their Humvee armored vehicle in Dhuluiyah north of Baghdad, an army captain and a medical source from a hospital in Balad said.

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6 Libyan Security Forces 'Executed'

Six members of Libya's security forces who were apparently "executed" were among 11 people killed in clashes in Benghazi between protesters and a militia linked to the defense ministry, a medical examiner told Agence France Presse on Saturday.

"From the nature of the wounds it is clear that the six were executed," the medical examiner said on condition of anonymity, adding that four of them were shot in the head while the others were shot in the chest as well as the head.

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