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The UN Security Council on Sunday called upon "all Liberian stakeholders to exercise maximum restraint" as the voters in the are expected to cast their ballots in the Nov 8 presidential run-off election.
A total of eight people were killed in a spate of fires across the Western Cape at the weekend, authorities said on Sunday.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday lashed out at an attack on a patrol of the African Union - United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID), the war-torn region of Sudan.
US officials warned Sunday that luxury hotels in Nigeria frequented by foreigners may be bombed by a radical Muslim sect.
Officials at the Damaturu General Hospital told Xinhua that over 100 dead bodies were lying at the morgue as of Saturday noon.
The police arrested three men on Friday for allegedly engaging in homosexual practice in the port of Tema, 38 km east of the capital Accra.
At least eight people, including five children, died Thursday in a collision between a bus and a truck in Argentina, authorities said.
Libya's new leaders are still struggling to secure massive weapons depots and disarm thousands of fighters who brought down Muammar Gadhafi's rule.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Thursday urged Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) to secure massive stockpiles of weapons and stop the smuggling of munitions out of the country.
All the passengers aboard an Egyptian ferry which caught fire on Thursday morning near the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea have been rescued, Egyptian Transport Minister Ali Zain el-Abdin said.
Bernard Ogalola, 52, joined China Road-Bridge Co (CRBC) in Kenya in 1986 and has been working for the company ever since, witnessing its change and growth in his country.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said Nigeria has the sixth largest population in the world.