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Mali’s ruling military leaders yesterday said in a message aired over state television that they were in control of the state broadcaster building, the airport, and the military base in Kati near the capital Bamako after a counter-coup attempt.

Police are investigating an incident in which guards shot and wounded nine pupils as they escaped from a rehabilitation centre in Somalia's Bossasso Town.

European leaders have mounted renewed diplomatic pressure on Ukraine over its treatment of Yulia Tymoshenko, the jailed former prime minister.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left on Monday on a high-stakes trip to Beijing, where a blind dissident is reportedly holed up in the U.S. embassy in a drama threatening to overshadow top-level meetings between the two governments.

Sudanese troops and allied militia forces clashed with South Sudanese troops along their contested border Tuesday, the latest fighting in weeks of violence, the South’s army said.