
Libya official quits, cites ‘unbearable’ violence
Libya’s top oil official became the latest figure to desert Muammar Gaddafi on Wednesday, adding momentum to a revolt against the leader’s long rule.
Libya’s top oil official became the latest figure to desert Muammar Gaddafi on Wednesday, adding momentum to a revolt against the leader’s long rule.
Ireland is poised to become the second eurozone country after Greece to seal a bail out but few expect the rescue to end a deep crisis.
Veteran Afghan leader Hamid Karzai was sworn in as president on Thursday, pledging to fight graft and take control of his country’s security.
Foreign dignitaries began descending on Kabul on Wednesday, the eve of the inauguration of President Hamid Karzai.
Afghanistan’s election watchdog changed its fraud-tallying rules for the second time in less than a week on Monday.
Afghanistan’s election watchdog will treat presidential candidates as equally likely to be guilty of vote fraud in suspicious cases, new rules show.
Afghan election authorities will announce the long-delayed tally from last month’s presidential vote on Wednesday, a spokesperson said.
”The Afghan people dared rockets, bombs and intimidation and came out to vote,” President Hamid Karzai said after polls closed on Thursday.
Streets in Afghanistan were mainly quiet and tense early on Thursday as Afghans headed to the polls for an anxiously awaited presidential election.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for a large suicide car bomb that detonated on Saturday in the heart of Kabul’s most secure neighbourhood.