WORLD-HIGHLIGHTS 2205 GMT
Source News Feed: Reuters World Service
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TUNIS - Fourteen civilians were killed in clashes with Tunisian police in the past 24 hours, official media and the government said on Sunday, in the worst violence in the country for decades.
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JUBA, Sudan - Millions of jubilant south Sudanese started voting on Sunday in an independence referendum expected to see their war-ravaged region emerge as a new nation.
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BRUSSELS - Pressure is growing on Portugal from Germany, France and other euro zone countries to seek financial help from the EU and IMF to stop the bloc's debt crisis from spreading, a senior euro zone source said on Sunday.
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TUCSON - U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords battled for her life on Sunday after a man shot her in the head and killed six people in a rampage that fueled debate about extreme political rhetoric in America.
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TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan will have to reshuffle his cabinet before the legislature opens this month, a ruling party official said on Sunday, in the clearest signal yet of a shake-up aimed at improving the government's approval ratings.
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PARIS/NIAMEY - France said the entire African Sahel region was no longer safe for its citizens after two Frenchmen were killed in Niger by suspected al Qaeda militants, and on Sunday told its nationals to avoid the area.
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LAGOS - Nigeria enters the most important three months of its recent political history this week, beginning elections which could chart its path for further reform or plunge its most volatile regions back into violence.
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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama and China's Hu Jintao will strive to put a rocky 2010 behind them and cast themselves as partners rather than rivals at a state visit this month between the world's two biggest powers.
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