Four hostages who work for a service company in the oil industry have been freed off southern Cameroon’s Bakassi peninsula, sources said on Tuesday.
Israel has decided to register as state property West Bank land that has emerged as a result of Dead Sea shrinkage, Peace Now said on Tuesday.
Rescuers on Tuesday found a child survivor of a Yemeni airliner that crashed off the coast of Comoros, a hospital official said.
Heavy fighting broke out in the Somali capital on Wednesday as government forces intensified their offensive to drive out insurgents, officials said.
Pakistani troops on Monday pressed their offensive against the Taliban in the northwest Swat district, closing in on a key town.
Faruq Hosni’s bid to become the Arab world’s first head of Unesco is being damaged by a row over comments he made on burning Israeli books.
The UN said on Friday that the number of deaths in Sri Lanka’s civil war in recent months was ”unacceptably high”, but declined to give figures.
India’s top diplomat in Australia on Friday rejected claims that racism was not a factor in a wave of savage attacks on students from the subcontinent
Burma’s military regime said on Wednesday it would allow some foreign and local media to cover the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi.
Malawians voted in presidential and parliamentary elections on Tuesday that could rekindle political instability in the southern African country.
The leader of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was shot dead on Monday while trying to flee advancing troops, defence officials said.
A record 220 women are running in Malawi’s presidential and parliamentary polls on Tuesday, representing about 20% of candidates for the 193 seats.
Germany is bracing for its biggest May Day protests in years amid fears of a rise in social unrest caused by the worst recession since World War II.
Pakistani off-spinner Saeed Ajmal has been fined an undisclosed sum of his match fee and warned after his comments about Shane Watson.
Somalia’s al-Shebab group stormed an independent radio station in Baidoa, ordered broadcasting to stop and detained three journalists, witnesses said.
A woman was killed on Friday when Madagascan security forces broke up a demonstration in support of ousted president Marc Ravalomanana.
Thailand revoked the passport of Thaksin Shinawatra on Wednesday, escalating a campaign against the fugitive former premier and his allies for alleged
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit accused Iran of using the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to gain a foothold in Egypt on Tuesday.
Madagascar’s ousted president Marc Ravalomanana told regional leaders he signed his resignation last month at gunpoint.
Several thousand Madagascans on Tuesday demonstrated against Andry Rajoelina’s army-backed removal of Marc Ravalomanana as president of the island.
The government of the DRC and Tutsi rebels signed a peace deal on Monday under which the rebel movement is to change into a political party.
Kgalema Motlanthe this week slammed the attacks in Gaza, dubbing the offensive ”sheer savagery and brutality” that caused a ”deep sense of revulsion”.
Zimbabwe’s opposition was pushing for the High Court to consider an urgent petition on Saturday demanding the immediate release of results from last weekend’s presidential election, its lawyer said. ”We are doing everything in our powers to have it heard today but we are not expecting anything before lunchtime,” Alec Muchadehama said.
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/ 5 February 2008
Société Générale was braced for fresh criticism from France’s top central banker on Tuesday as the man the bank blames for its record trading losses spoke out against his former employer. Jerome Kerviel (31) is under police investigation and said that he would not be turned into a ”scapegoat”.
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/ 17 November 2007
A powerful cyclone ripped through Bangladesh on Friday leaving a trail of destruction that claimed an estimated 1 000 lives and caused hundreds of thousands to flee the strong winds and driving rain. Cyclone Sidr crashed into the south-western coast after racing up the Bay of Bengal at 240km/h and triggered a 5m-high tidal wave.
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/ 6 November 2007
Three leading international news agencies are set to boycott this week’s first cricket Test match between Australia and Sri Lanka after organisers demanded payment for the right to distribute photographs from the event. The row is the second major rights dispute to hit international sports organisers in two months.
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/ 7 September 2007
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The media boycott of the Rugby World Cup was lifted on Friday, just 90 minutes before the first match kicked-off, after an agreement was reached between the International Rugby Board and the media coalition, the management of Agence France-Presse announced.