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Senegal appoints education minister
Senegal's minister for higher education has been replaced less than a week after a student was shot dead during clashes with the police, and on the eve of a meeting between student leaders and president Abdoulaye Wade.

Sharon strikes deal in Israeli election race
Ariel Sharon has obtained the backing of ultra-Orthodox leaders in today's general election in exchange for an unofficial promise that he will extend for a year the exemption of Jewish religious students from military service.