20111220 Press TV Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin has asked for a thorough investigation into the deaths of civilians during NATO's military intervention in Libya earlier this year.
20111220 Press TV The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay condemns Egypt's junta for staging “ruthless violence” and “inhuman acts” in handling recent protests in the capital.
20111220 Press TV A Kenyan security officer has been killed after his vehicle came into contact with a landmine at a northeastern Kenyan refugee camp, Press TV reported.
20111220 Press TV At least five Somali government troops and 13 al-Shabab militants have been killed in an exchange of fire in southern Mogadishu, Press TV reports.
20111220 Reuters (Reuters) - An Islamist group seen as the main opposing force to Morocco's monarchy has suspended its involvement in a movement inspired by revolts in Tunisia and Egypt, citing the need for a new deal with secularist activists to bolster its ideology.
20111220 Reuters (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces fought opponents of army rule in Cairo for a fourth day on Monday and the United States, worried by the violence, urged the generals to respect human rights.
20111220 Reuters (Reuters) - Nigerian police have arrested 14 suspected members of an Islamist sect and seized explosives after a gun battle on Saturday left four militants and three policemen dead in the northern city of Kano, the police commissioner said.
20111220 Reuters (Reuters) - Egyptian police and soldiers fired weapons and used batons and teargas for a fifth day on Tuesday in the latest security operation to clear Cairo's central Tahrir Square of opponents of army rule.
20111220 Reuters (Reuters) - Pointing to a scarred bald patch above his ear, Lise Dide shows where shrapnel grazed his head when his village in Sudan's Blue Nile state was hit in an air strike.
20111220 AFP Gabon's ruling party claimed Monday it had won 114 out of parliament's 120 seats in a legislative election largely boycotted by the opposition but given a clean bill of health by observers.
20111220 AFP Senegal's army said Monday it was searching for five missing soldiers following an attack last week by rebels in the southern separatist region of Casamance.
20111220 AFP The chief prosecutor at the international war crimes court on Monday appealed its decision to drop charges against Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana and order his release.
20111220 AFP US special forces have set up a base in the Central African Republic as part of their regional hunt for fighters from the Ugandan-born Lord's Resistance Army group, military sources said Monday.
20111220 AFP Tensions rose in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, a day after the country's opposition leader again called himself president despite losing in last month's troubled polls.
20111219 Press TV The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon blasts the Egyptian junta for its using excessive force against pro-democracy protesters in the country, demanding an end to the February-present military rule.
20111219 Press TV Egyptian security forces' shameless and brutal treatment of female protesters has reached the World Wide Web as well as media outlets, sending shockwaves through the international community.
20111219 Press TV An Egyptian pipeline supplying natural gas to Israel and Jordan has been damaged by a fresh blast, the last in a series of such attacks since February.
20111219 Press TV Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) seeks to usurp power through its efforts to isolate revolutionary forces in the North African country, a political analyst tells Press TV.
