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GUINEA security forces used guns, teargas and truncheons on Thursday to scatter protesters angered by the government’s handling of upcoming parliamentary elections, witnesses said.

COMMENTS from South Africa’s last white president, FW de Klerk, defending separate racial states during apartheid set off a storm of criticism yesterday from people still living with the legacy of decades of racial oppression.

Pirates have hijacked a Greek-owned oil tanker carrying 135,000 metric tonnes of crude oil while in the Arabian Sea, the first successful attack on an oil tanker off the Horn of Africa in more than a year.

THE trial of a British man accused of links to Somalia’s militant group, Al-Shabaab and allegedly planning a bomb attack in Kenya, begun in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa on Thursday.

THE leaders of Greece’s once-dominant political parties are making their final effort to form a coalition and avert new elections which could throw the debt-crippled country into further political and economic chaos.

CHINA and Russia on Thursday pledged to make joint efforts to seek a political solution to the ongoing Syrian issue as the two countries’ foreign ministers held talks in Beijing.

TWENTY Azerbaijani veterans of the World War II have received surprising gifts of brand new cars from the government.

Legislators from the East Africa Legislative Assembly (EALA) have expressed disappointment over slow development and poor education standards in marginalised pastoral areas which they said fuel regional conflicts.