20111026 Reuters (Reuters) - A proposal to appoint a Commonwealth human rights commissioner to steer a more proactive rights agenda looks set to test a leaders' summit this week, with host Australia backing the plan but India and South Africa reported to oppose it.
20111026 Reuters (Reuters) - NATO is to formally decide on Wednesday whether to end its mission over Libya now that Muammar Gaddafi is dead and buried and the country's new leaders have declared the nation "liberated".
20111026 Reuters (Reuters) - Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mo'tassim were buried in a secret desert location on Tuesday, five days after they were captured and killed.
20111026 Reuters (Reuters) - Deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi wrote to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in August begging him to halt a NATO-led intervention that was helping a rebel uprising drive him from power, French weekly Paris Match reported.
20111026 Reuters (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi, with his pocked face and curly hair, may have been one of the most recognizable figures of the 20th century, but the capital he lorded over is doing its best to forget him.
20111026 Reuters (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam called his father frequently on the telephone and increasingly feared being hit by a mortar as he tried to escape from the besieged town of Bani Walid last week, an officer who had been with him told Reuters on Tuesday.
20111026 Reuters (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi missed his chance to bring democracy to his country and described his death as a message to dictators around the world.
20111025 Press TV Thousands of Moroccans have taken to streets across the North African country, calling for a boycott of parliamentary polls next month.
20111025 Press TV Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) Vice Chairman Abdel Hafiz Ghoga says the country's new leaders are preparing to form an interim government.
20111025 Press TV US assassination drones have targeted an area controlled by the al-Shabab group and killed at least 36 Somali people, Press TV reports.
20111025 Press TV With a turnout that has surpassed all expectations, the Tunisian election could set an example for the rest of the region, journalist and writer Adel Lotfi told Press TV in an interview.
20111025 Press TV Thousands of Egyptian policemen have staged a protest in the capital Cairo, calling for the resignation of the country's interior minister.
20111025 Press TV An explosion at a busy bus station in the centre of Kenyan capital city of Nairobi has left three persons dead and at least eighteen others injured, Press TV reports.
20111025 Press TV An Israeli intelligence source says US and British forces had surrounded the hideout of former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi two weeks before he was captured and killed.
20111025 Press TV At least 59 people have been killed and dozens more wounded during French military attacks on the Somali island of Kudhaa near the country's border with Kenya, Press TV reports.
20111025 Reuters (Reuters) - Israel and Egypt said on Monday they have struck a deal to swap 25 Egyptians in Israeli custody for a U.S.-Israeli dual national accused by Cairo of espionage, in a step seen as easing strains between the strategic neighbors.
20111025 Reuters (Reuters) - Ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will be buried on Tuesday in a secret desert grave, a National Transitional Council official said, ending a wrangle over his rotting corpse that led many to fear for Libya's governability.
20111025 Reuters (Reuters) - The United States is increasing food aid to drought-hit and strife-torn Horn of Africa nations where millions of people are at risk of starvation and malnutrition, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday.
