TEHRAN, Feb 3: Iran has its “own threats” to respond to any military attack or sanctions against its oil exports, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday.
WASHINGTON, Feb 3: The United States, European governments and Arab states have begun discussing the possibility of exile for Bashar al-Assad despite skepticism the defiant Syrian president is ready to consider such an offer, Western officials said on Wednesday.
TRIPOLI, Feb 3: Libya will investigate all cases of “torture” in prisons and bring to justice those involved in it, Justice Minister Ali Hamida Ashur told reporters on Thursday.
NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 3: The United Nations said Friday that conditions in Somalia have improved enough to downgrade the country’s famine, but the world body’s Food and Agricultural Organisation warned that continued assistance is needed to stop the region from slipping back.