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Russia objects foreign military intervention in Libya

Foreign military intervention in Libya is inadmissible in any form, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a ...

African Union to send team to help end Libya crisis

The African Union (AU) has set up a panel of five heads of state which will travel to Libya shortly to help end ...

Defiant Kadhafi visits Tripoli journalists` hotel

Embattled Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi turned up at a Tripoli hotel where many foreign journalists are staying late on ...

Japan Approves UN Sanctions Against Libya

Japan approved sanctions Tuesday against Libya, including an assets freeze and travel ban against several regime ...

Somali troops, militia take two towns from rebels

Somali troops backed by pro-government militia took two towns from rebel Islamist group al Shabaab in fighting on ...

Kadhafi accuses France of `interference`

Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi accused France of interference in the country`s internal affairs and blamed Al-Qaeda ...

Kenya arrests six Shabaab fighters in border town

Kenyan police have arrested six suspected fighters from Somalia`s al Shabaab rebel group in Mandera on the Kenyan side ...

Egypt names new foreign minister

Egypt on Sunday named its former ambassador to the United Nations, Nabil al-Arabi, as foreign minister in the latest ...

Libya armed intervention would be negative: France

Any international military intervention in Libya would have "absolutely negative" effects, France`s Foreign Minister ...

Kadhafi seeks UN, AU probe into Libyan unrest

Moamer Kadhafi said he wanted the United Nations or the African Union to probe the unrest rocking Libya and promised ...

Sixty killed in Libya fighting

Fierce fighting continued Saturday in the Libyan rebel-held town of Zawiyah, 30 miles from the capital Tripoli, with ...

Clinton calls for `immediate end` to Icoast violence

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday condemned Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo and his forces for ...

Tunisia`s pm accuses toppled Ben Ali of `high treason`

Tunisia`s new Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi on Friday accused toppled president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of "high ...

Chavez offers to mediate Libya crisis, rebels say no

Venezuela`s President Hugo Chavez offered Thursday to mediate the Libyan crisis, officials said here, adding that ...

US warns against travel to Ivory Coast

The United States urged its citizens against travel to Ivory Coast on Wednesday, amid rising violence in the African ...