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Congo in Crisis - Congo rebels M23 announced they will withdraw from Goma by Friday. Separately, the U.N.'s special representative for the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday that multiple rebel militias in the eastern part of the country are stretching the 19,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force present in the country thin. (Photo: EPA/DAI KUROKAWA /LANDOV)

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