Libyan rebels said Monday that any ceasefire would require the withdrawal of government troops from the streets and freedom of expression, as African mediators were due in their stronghold.

Egyptian activists plan to march onto Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square on Friday to demand former regime officials be purged and put on trial, including ousted president Hosni Mubarak.

China on Friday expressed concern over the release of radioactive water from Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant and urged its neighbour to protect the marine environment.

President Barack Obama demanded a rapid answer from Republicans on a deal to avert a government shutdown, heaping intense pressure on his foes with Friday’s deadline looming.

A U.N. official says the retired South African judge who authored a damning report on Israel’s 2009 incursion into Gaza must formally request the document to be withdrawn before it can be repealed as Israel has demanded.

At least four people have been killed in landslides in southern Thailand, bringing to 15 the death toll in the flood-battered region.

Myanmar’s military handed power to a nominally civilian government after almost 50 years in power Wednesday, as the ruling junta was disbanded and a new president appointed.

A suicide bomb attack on a road construction company in eastern Afghanistan killed 13 people and wounded 50 more, a spokesman for the provincial governor said Monday.

Palestinians sent a Grad rocket slamming into the Israeli city of Beersheva Wednesday, injuring a man, after Israeli air strikes and a mortar attack killed eight Gazans.

Gaza militants fired seven mortar shells into southern Israel early on Wednesday, just hours after they fired a Grad rocket into the heart of the southern city of Beersheva, the army said.