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LIBYA’S National Transitional Council decided on Sunday that the interim government should stay in place, notably to ensure the success of June elections for a constituent assembly.

The head of the U.N. observer mission in Syria on Sunday called on President Bashar Assad and the country’s opposition to stop fighting and allow a tenuous cease-fire to take hold.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday fiercely denied that he was offered campaign funding from late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, as new challenges piled up against him a week ahead of the country’s presidential runoff.

British Prime Minister David Cameron insisted Sunday he had struck no secret deals with media baron Rupert Murdoch whereby policy was traded for his newspapers' political support.

EAC regional lawmakers officially ended their two-week parliamentary sessions in Nairobi on Friday after passing five bills and adopted key resolution urging transfer of the International Criminal Court (ICC) case to the regional court.

At least one person was confirmed dead and ten others seriously injured in an early Sunday grenade attack at a church in Nairobi’s Ngara residential estate, police confirmed.

The body of Libya's former Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem has been found in the Danube River, Austrian police say.