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Tunisians are voting in a referendum on a controversial new constitution which would entrench significant new powers seized by the president, Kais Saied.

He dismissed parliament a year ago and has been ruling largely by decree.

The proposed constitution would formalise this, subordinating parliament to the president and removing most checks on his authority.

Mr Saied and his supporters say the changes are needed to end political factionalism and corruption.

But critics say the reforms would end the relatively open democracy brought in after the popular uprising of 2011 which drove the autocratic former president, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, from power.

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A court in Egypt has called for a legal amendment to allow live broadcast of the execution of the killer of a female student.

Egyptians were horrified after video footage went viral last month purportedly showing Mohammed Adel stabbing to death Nayera Ashraf, who rejected his advances, outside her university.

In a letter to parliament, the court that sentenced the 22-year-old to death said the broadcast of even a part of the proceedings could achieve the goal of deterrence.

Egypt does not broadcast executions, which are always carried out by hanging inside prisons.

A 2015 United Nations survey said nearly eight million Egyptian women were victims of violence.

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There have been fresh clashes between rival militia factions in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, after one group detained a member of another.

The heavy fighting between the Special Deterrence Forces and the Tripoli Revolutionaries Battalion left at least three people dead, although some reports put that number at 15.

Flights to the city's airport were diverted to Misrata, nearly 200km (125 miles) away.

Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah has sacked his interior minister over the incident

The Presidential Council has called on both militias to return to their bases.

The UN support mission to Libya has called for an investigation into the incident.

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A court in Morocco has sentenced 33 migrants to 11 months in jail for illegal entry, following a deadly mass border-crossing attempt into the Spanish enclave of Melilla last month.

At least 20 migrants died after around 2,000 people, many from Sudan, stormed the frontier.

It was the worst death toll in years of attempted migrant crossings into the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla - the European Union's only land borders with Africa.

The UN, African Union and human rights groups condemned the use of excessive force by the Moroccan and Spanish security services.

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At least 22 people have been killed in a car crash in the southern Egyptian province of Minya.

Twenty-three other people were injured and were taken to nearby hospitals.

The accident occurred early morning on Tuesday as a bus with about 45 passengers on board crashed into a stationary lorry.

Road accidents are common in Egypt, with thousands killed every year.