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Photographer plans mass nude Dead Sea shoot

 American art photographer Spencer Tunick is seeking funds and models for one of his trademark mass shoots of naked volunteers, this time at Israel's Dead Sea shoreline.

A statement from online art fundraiser Kickstarter.com said that the goal was to raise $60,000 by June 6 to fund the project entitled "Naked Sea."

Some of Tunick's previous shoots included one of 18,000 nudes in Mexico City's Zocalo Square and another of 7,000 in Barcelona, Spain.

Kickstarter said that Tunick had been motivated to try the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth, because of its natural beauty and to draw attention to the danger to its future caused by evaporation

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Gaddafi refuses to quit, calls for talks with US, France

 Muammar Gaddafi said he will not quit power and called for negotiations with the United States and France to end the Libyan 
conflict, in a speech aired on television early on Saturday.

NATO "must abandon all hope of the departure of Muammar Gaddafi. I have no official functions to give up: I will not leave my country and will fight to 
the death," he said in a speech marking the centenary of a battle against Italian occupation forces.

"We are ready to talk with France and the United States, but with no preconditions," he said.

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African mediators in Libya as NATO hits tanks

The regime of Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi has accepted an African Union peace plan designed to the end the current conflict, South African President Jacob Zuma said from Tripoli on Sunday, as air strikes took out 26 loyalist tanks.

A high-ranking African Union delegation arrived in Libya earlier to try to broker a truce between Muammar al-Gaddafi and rebels seeking to oust him, with NATO warplanes still in action against regime forces in the stricken port city of Misrata and Ajdabiya in the east.

Gaddafi's delegation accepted the AU's proposals, added Zuma, who was set to leave Libya Sunday though other members of the AU delegation would be staying in Tripoli overnight before travelling west to

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