International

Rescue workers on Monday continued to search for the 139 soldiers and civilians still trapped under heavy snow for more than two days after a massive avalanche struck an army camp in the Pakistan’s northern Siachen Glacier area.

Foreign ministers of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) met Sunday for talks on trilateral cooperation in China’s east coast city of Ningbo.

Libya will not send Saif al-Islam Gaddafi to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the country’s justice minister has said.

The city of Cape Town has launched a crackdown on motorists using cell phones while driving in a fresh bid to stem road carnages during Easter.

A blast rocked a vegetable market in Somalia’s third-largest city, killing at least eight people and wounding at least 15, witnesses and a police official said Monday.

When other foreigners chose to flee in the  wake of the Genocide, Carl Wilkens, an American citizen who lived in Rwanda with his family in the early 90s, chose to stay.

Malawi’s new President Joyce Banda has sacked the country’s police chief Peter Mukhito, state media have reported.

President Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali has formally resigned as part of a deal with coup leaders to end the crisis gripping the West African state.