HOHHOT - Security forces sealed off parts of the capital of China's vast northern region of Inner Mongolia on Sunday to prevent residents from staging a planned mass protest after the hit-and-run death of a herder sparked six days of protests by ethnic Mongolians.
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KABUL - Afghan leaders on Sunday appeared to accuse Pakistan of harbouring insurgents behind a suicide bombing that killed one of the most powerful men in northern Afghanistan.
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ARRUJBAN, Libya - Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have cut electricity supplies to much of the Western Mountains, threatening water supplies and stepping up a war of attrition with rebels who hold the plateau.
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SANAA - A breakaway military group called on Sunday for other army units to join them in the fight to bring down Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh, piling pressure on him to end his three-decade rule over the destitute country.
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AMMAN - Syrian forces killed at least three civilians and wounded scores on Sunday, residents said, in a widening military push into central Syria to quell protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.
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ABUJA - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in for his first full elected term at the helm of Africa's most populous nation on Sunday, faced with the challenge of driving reform and trying to heal regional rifts.
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ROME - Italians voted on Sunday in local election run-offs where Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition risks humiliating defeat in his home town of Milan for the first time in nearly 20 years.
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RIGA - Latvia must convince investors a political crisis sparked by the president over corruption will be of long-term good, but it is likely to create uncertainty, the finance minister was quoted on Sunday as saying.
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WASHINGTON - First he was Irish, then he was British, and now he's Polish, too.
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WASHINGTON - Army Chief of Staff General Martin Dempsey, expected to be named the top U.S. military officer on Monday, will need to draw on his experience in and out of war zones to navigate a budget battle awaiting him in Washington.
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JUBA, Sudan - About a third of all civilian structures have been razed in the main town of Sudan's disputed Abyei region after the northern army took control of the area, a satellite monitoring project report said on Sunday.
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