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Libya: rebels spurn peace
by our Arab Affairs correspondent
LIBYAN rebels have turned down an African Union peace plan that would have ended the civil war with Muammar Gadaffi still in place as leader. An African Union delegation headed by Mauritanian leader Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and including President Jacob Zuma of South Africa held talks with Gaddafi in Tripoli this week before putting their plan to the rebel leaders in their stronghold of Benghazi.
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40,000 NHS jobs massacre
by Caroline Colebrook
HE ROYAL College of Nursing at its annual congress last week in Liverpool warned that Government plans to reform the National Health Service while at the same time making savings of £20 billion will result in 40,000 jobs being lost — and at least half of these will be frontline staff, doctors and nurses.
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