Twitter blocks two accounts on its Turkish networkTwitter blocked two accounts on Sunday that had been used to spread corruption allegations against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his government and his inner circle.
21 April 2014
Historic mass in Turkish-held north Cyprus 'like a miracle'With a nighttime procession lit by the glimmer of devotional candles and the flash of smartphone cameras, a church in Turkish-held northern Cyprus hosted its first Easter mass in nearly 60 years.
20 April 2014
UN 'outrage' over South Sudan base attackThe United Nations Security Council expressed "outrage" Friday and demanded the South Sudan government prevent attacks on its bases and civilians in the war-torn country after dozens of people were killed.
19 April 2014
Iran oil exports rise to 1.2 mn barrels per dayIran's crude oil exports have hit 1.2 million barrels per day, almost doubling from eight months ago when the country elected a new president, a top government official said.
18 April 2014
70 wounded as anti-vote Algerian youths, police clashClashes in Algeria's restive Kabylie region between security forces and youths opposed to Thursday's presidential election wounded around 70 people, local sources said.
18 April 2014
Israeli crime boss found shot deadProminent Israeli crime boss Charlie Abutbul was found dead on Thursday at his home near Tel Aviv, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, public radio said.
18 April 2014
Eight drown as immigrant boat sinks off TurkeyEight people died, including a child, and five others were missing on Wednesday after a boat carrying migrants towards Greece capsized off western Turkey, local media reported.
17 April 2014
Liberia's first post-war president diesFormer Liberian president Gyude Bryant, who led a peacetime government after two ruinous back-to-back civil wars, died aged 65 on Wednesday, the government said in a statement.
17 April 2014
Gambia bans flights from Ebola-hit nationsThe Gambia has banned flights from Ebola-hit west African countries from landing in its territory, airport officials told AFP.
16 April 2014
Morocco jails British paedophile for 20 years: NGOMorocco Tuesday jailed a British man, previously convicted of child sex offences, for 20 years for kidnapping and attempting to rape three young girls, a rights activist at the trial said.
16 April 2014
Islamists abduct more than 100 girls from Nigeria schoolHeavily armed Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped more than 100 girls from a school in northeast Nigeria, sparking a search by soldiers to track down the attackers, a security source and witnesses said.
Bomb attack kills 71 at bus station near Nigeria capitalSeventy-one people died in a bomb blast in a packed bus station in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Monday -- the deadliest attack yet to strike the city -- with the president blaming the explosion on Boko Haram Islamists.
15 April 2014
UAE woman 'brain-damaged' after London hotel attackAn Emirati woman attacked in her London hotel in a suspected burglary last weekend lost an eye and has been left with only five percent of her brain function, police said Saturday.
13 April 2014
Four killed in landslide in northern Afghanistan: officialsA landslide triggered by heavy rains and a small earthquake swept through two villages in northern Afghanistan killing four people and destroying around 100 houses, officials said Saturday.
13 April 2014
50,000 children could die in months in S.Sudan: UNICEFConflict in South Sudan has triggered a serious risk of famine that will kill up to 50,000 children within months if immediate action is not taken, the UN warned.
Madagascar names prime minister after deadlockAfter months of post-election deadlock Madagascar's president named a new prime minister Friday, tapping the relatively unknown doctor Roger Kolo for the post.
13 April 2014
Nigerian arrested for tweeting attack pictures: AmnestyAmnesty International urged the Nigerian security forces Friday to disclose the whereabouts of a man who was arrested after tweeting pictures of an attempted jail break at the headquarters of the intelligence agency.
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