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Police in Malawi say they have fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing vendors resisting orders they move off the streets to designated flea markets.

U.S. President Barack Obama's 91-year-old step-grandmother suffered bruises and shock after a car she was travelling in rolled over, a relative and a hospital official said Monday.

Testimony before an inquest into a Zimbabwean power broker's death is ending, leaving the last hours of Gen.

Dozens of Syrian protesters stormed the Russian embassy in Libyan capital Tripoli Sunday, a day after Russia and China blocked a UN resolution on the Syrian crisis.

Thirteen security guards from Specialised Protection Services have been arrested in a series of raids on Cape Town nightclubs.

China was slow to support the rebels in Libya's revolution last year. In September, it became the last member of the U.N. Security Council to formally recognize the transitional council as the country's ruling authority.

By Francis Kokutse, Accra , Feb 5 : With major Indian interests in Nigeria in the areas of trade and investment, the west African country's huge economic potential continues to be a big draw for Indians despite recent terror attacks, one of which killed 160 people, including an Indian, last month.

Libya has put 41 loyalists of dead dictator Muammar Gaddafi on trial in the first legal proceedings launched against members of the former regime which was ousted after a bloody conflict.

An Eni SpA oil pipeline ruptured and caught fire as a militant group claimed responsibility for an attack in the region, their first alleged assault in months as its purported leader awaits trial on terrorism charges in South Africa.

A young protester with his face painted with a Syrian flag and red colour tears looks on as tens of Syrian protest outside the Syrian Embassy in London Saturday, Feb.

Kenya's military has struck al Shabaab targets in one of the most devastating attacks against the al Qaeda-linked insurgents since it launched an operation in Somalia to crush the rebels last October, a Kenyan army officer said on Saturday.

As international anger grows over reports of mass carnage at the hands of the Syrian regime, the U.N. Security Council could vote Saturday on a draft resolution that would pressure the government to stop a crackdown on dissidents.

Kenya Red Cross spokesman Fredrick Gori said Saturday that the Friday night accident in Kisumu city happened after a truck hit a 14-seater minibus carrying excess passengers.

The giant pipes lying idle along the road were supposed to deliver water from a dam completed six years ago to villages across the region.

A South African youth leader who has stirred furious debate over race relations and economic policy will get a chance to argue against a possibly career-ending suspension from the country's governing party, party officials said Saturday.

Police fired salvos of tear gas and birdshot Friday at rock-throwing protesters in Cairo as popular anger over a deadly soccer riot spilled over into a second day of street violence that left at least five people dead and more than 1,500 injured nationwide, officials said.

Sudanese rebels said they are looking for ways to hand over 29 Chinese workers held in the border state of South Kordofan, Chinese state media said, as Sudan's government confirmed the death of one worker in a firefight.

The spokesman for Kenya's military says an estimated 100 Somali militants were killed after helicopter gunships targeted a gathering of more than 200 al-Shabab fighters in Somalia.

The Western Cape High Court dismissed an application on the Dalai Lama's visa as it was too late to fix the past, the IFP said on Friday.

A U.N. staff member was shot during a clash that broke out as officials met to discuss a weekend cattle raid massacre that left 78 people dead, including many women and children, U.N. officials said Friday.