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Libya had sought to question Muammar Gaddafi’s former oil boss in a corruption investigation before his body was found in the river Danube in Austria this week, Prosecutor General Abdelaziz Al-Hasadi told Reuters on Wednesday.

An imprisoned Ethiopian journalist and blogger has been given a prestigious freedom of expression award.

US President Barack Obama has declared that the US combat role in Afghanistan is winding down just as it has already ended in Iraq.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi took a historic oath on Wednesday to join a parliamentary system crafted by the generals who locked her away for much of her long struggle against dictatorship, ushering in a dramatic new political era.

Celebrations of the first annual International Jazz Day started at the weekend with a concert in Paris; followed by another in New Orleans on Saturday, and the final one at UN Headquarters in New York on Monday this week.

The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution giving Sudan and South Sudan 48 hours to halt hostilities or face potential sanctions.

Dictatorial control over news coverage, achieved through a combination of propaganda, brute force, and sophisticated technology, define the world's top 10 most censored countries the Committee to Protect Journalists found in a new report issued to commemorate World Press Freedom Day.

As decades-old authoritarian regimes crumbled or eased their grip in countries as widespread as Myanmar, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, freedom of the press gained precarious new footholds last year, according to a survey by a watchdog group released Tuesday.