Yemen gave a qualified welcome on Sunday to US president Barack Obama’s promise to lift a ban on repatriating Yemeni prisoners from Guantanamo Bay.
Syrian authorities, battling an uprising in which at least 80 000 people have been killed, advised citizens against travel to Turkey.
Sweden and other Nordic states face more reforms, a lite version of austerity forced on many European nations.
Pashto cinema once made its home in Pakistan’s wild frontier of Peshawar, but is now confined to theatres that haven’t been attacked by Islamists.
Japan pledged African leaders $32-billion on Saturday to help growth on the continent and encourage Japanese firms to invest there.
Russia is to resume patrols in the southern seas after a hiatus of over 20 years following the break-up of the Soviet Union, says a news agency.
Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court has ordered President Robert Mugabe to hold elections before the end of July.
A United States drone strike has killed the number two of the Pakistan Taliban, Wali-ur-Rehman, in the North Waziristan region.
Unidentified gunmen have seized two South African citizens in the Yemeni city of Taiz, an interior ministry source has said.
An anti-terrorism unit is investigating the stabbing of a French soldier that police think was inspired by the killing of a British soldier in London.