Reuters - A Libyan diplomat who served as ambassador to France for Muammar Gaddafi died from torture within a day of being detained by a militia from Zintan, Human Rights Watch said in a statement on Friday.
2012-02-03 14:20
2012-02-03 14:20
Gunmen kidnap two U.S. tourists in Egypt's Sinai (Reuters)
Reuters - Gunmen in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula kidnapped two American women on Friday in an apparent attempt to hold them for ransom, security sources said.
2012-02-03 14:20
Street battle rages near Egypt's interior ministry (Reuters)
Reuters - Protesters hurled rocks through clouds of tear gas and riot police fired live rounds on a second day of fighting around Egypt's Interior Ministry triggered by the deaths of 74 people in the country's worst soccer disaster.
2012-02-03 14:20
More than 110 missing from Papua New Guinea ferry (AP)
AP - More than 110 people were missing Friday after a ferry sank off Papua New Guinea's east coast, and rescuers feared many had been trapped inside.
2012-02-02 21:44
Congo leader's party loses 45 percent of its seats (AP)
AP - President Joseph Kabila's party has lost 45 percent of the legislative seats it held before November elections that were denounced as fraudulent and chaotic, according to belated results announced Thursday by Congo's electoral commission.
2012-02-02 21:44
Papua New Guinea ferry sinks with up to 350 aboard (AP)
AP - Rescuers plucked more than 230 survivors from the sea off Papua New Guinea's east coast after a ferry sank Thursday with as many as 350 people on board, officials said.
2012-02-02 21:44
Egyptian film star sentenced for insulting Islam (Reuters)
Reuters - The Arab world's most famous comic actor, Adel Imam, has received a three-month jail sentence for insulting Islam in films and plays, a court document showed on Thursday.
2012-02-02 21:44
Togo authorities holding 150 Sri Lanka refugees (AP)
AP - An official in Togo says authorities are holding more than 150 Sri Lankan refugees who entered the West African nation en route to Canada.
2012-02-02 21:44
UN official: SSudan crises need more than $760m (AP)
AP - A top U.N. official says South Sudan may need more than the $760 million the agency predicted they would need to cope with the new country's myriad humanitarian crises.
2012-02-02 21:44
Correction: BC-AF--Nigeria-Radical Sect story (AP)
AP - In a story Feb. 1 about the arrest of a purported spokesman of the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Ahmed Abdullahi, the Borno state director of the State Security Service, confirmed the man's capture. Another official in the state, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter, confirmed it to local journalists.
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- Oil risks fuelling flames of Sudan conflict (Reuters)
- Street battle rages near Egypt's Interior Ministry (Reuters)
- Sudan's Bashir says tensions with South could spark war (Reuters)
- South Sudan shoot-out kills 37, wounds U.N. policeman (Reuters)
- Lawmakers step up warnings on Egypt military aid (Reuters)
- Sudan rebels "seeking way" to hand over abducted Chinese (Reuters)
- Libya enjoys political flowering ahead of elections (Reuters)
- Libyan diplomat dies after torture: rights group (Reuters)
- Gunmen kidnap two U.S. tourists in Egypt's Sinai (Reuters)
- Street battle rages near Egypt's interior ministry (Reuters)
- More than 110 missing from Papua New Guinea ferry (AP)
- Congo leader's party loses 45 percent of its seats (AP)
- Papua New Guinea ferry sinks with up to 350 aboard (AP)
- Egyptian film star sentenced for insulting Islam (Reuters)
- Togo authorities holding 150 Sri Lanka refugees (AP)
- UN official: SSudan crises need more than $760m (AP)
- Correction: BC-AF--Nigeria-Radical Sect story (AP)