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Egypt finmin resigns after protest deaths
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A Libyan commander leading the attack on Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte said on Tuesday he was in talks with elders inside the city about a truce, but the head of another anti-Gaddafi unit rejected negotiations.
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Libya's interim rulers said Sunday they had found a mass grave containing the bodies of 1,270 inmates killed by Muammar Gaddafi's security forces in a 1996 massacre at a Tripoli prison.
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Arrested at his UBS trading desk, rogue trader Kweku Adoboli allegedly told the bank about his unauthorized trading that resulted in a nearly $2 billion loss.
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