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The UN secretary-general have said he fears the organization has become a soft target, after a bomb attack on its Nigerian headquarters.

Witnesses reported seeing a car packed with explosives rammed through two separate gates, exploding just outside the building’s main reception.
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Hurricane Irene closed in on the US Atlantic coast on Friday, triggering
emergency preparations that included unprecedented mandatory
evacuations in New York City as the massive storm approached.

Ed Rappaport, the deputy director of the National Hurricane Center, speaks to Al Jazeera from Miami about the impending storm.
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Australia, one of the world’s biggest polluters, has unveiled a radical move to tackle climate change, but will it work?
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New York City expects to receive a direct hit from Irene on Sunday.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered unprecedented evacuations for a quarter of a million people.
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A street-by-street rebel onslaught has pushed the remnants of Muammar Gaddafi’s army to the southern outskirts of the Tripoli, securing nearly all of the capital and closing in on victory.

Al Jazeera’s Jamal Elshayyal reports from Tripoli on Friday’s events.
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The African Union has refused to explicitly recognise Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC), in a setback for Libyan rebels who have already been recognised as the legitimate government by more than 40 countries.

Instead, the AU on Friday called for an inclusive transitional government in the North African state that would also involve officials from Muammar Gaddafi’s side.
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Libya’s rebels say they are close to fully controlling Tripoli but there is still no sign of their prime target, Muammar Gaddafi.

Security remains the most pressing concern as the National Transitional Council is ordering all rebels to join one, united national army.
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A street-by-street rebel onslaught has pushed the remnants of Muammar Gaddafi’s army to the southern outskirts of the Tripoli, securing nearly all of the capital and closing in on victory.

Al Jazeera’s Jamal Elshayyal reports from Tripoli on Friday’s events.
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New York mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday ordered an unprecedented mass evacuation and the closure of the subway as millions of Americans along the east coast battened down for Hurricane Irene.

And Washington’s mayor also declared a state of emergency for the US capital ahead of the arrival of the storm, warnings have been issued all along the Atlantic coast.
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Irene, the first hurricane of the season, weakened a little as it
arrived on the coast of the Carolinas on the US East Coast.

This is the second hurricane alert people on North Carolina’s barrier islands have been through in the past year.
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