Agence Francepresse

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.