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Monday, January 5, 2015 - 12:39
A Kenyan court on Friday suspended some of the most contentious provisions of a new security law that detractors have said would undermine democracy.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 12:38
A dozen employees of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Azerbaijan were arrested and detained for up to 12 hours of questioning over the weekend, as state prosecutors intensified a crackdown on journalists and nongovernmental organizations that has drawn sharp criticism in the West.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 12:35
Saturday's attack on the town of Baga is another embarrassing setback for Nigeria's military, which is working with its neighbors to secure the remote border area. Boko Haram militants separately abducted around 40 boys from another village.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 12:30
Militants from the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq have published a video saying that they have asked permission from the group's senior leadership to wage jihad in Tajikistan, RFE/RL's Tajik service has reported.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 12:25
Béji Caïd Essebsi explains his three goals as Tunisia’s president: We must solve the daunting economic and social problems that began in the Ben Ali era and were aggravated by three years of incompetent Islamist administration. We must establish security in a country surrounded by insecurity. And we must strengthen our young democracy at a time when hopes for democracy elsewhere in the region are failing to take root.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 12:24
Three Yemenis and two Tunisians held for more than a decade at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo have been flown to Kazakhstan for resettlement, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of prisoner transfers aimed at closing the facility.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 12:18
Tunisia's largest political party chose a veteran from the country's former dictatorship as its candidate for prime minister Monday and he began work immediately on forming a coalition government.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 12:17
Uzbek President Islam Karimov has set the priorities for the country’s development in 2015 in his New Year message. Karimov noted removing all obstacles and limitations, ensuring complete freedom for the development of private property and private entrepreneurship are of fundamental importance. This comes as another key task is to consistently expand the structural reforms in the economy.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 12:13
The State Department is voicing concern over the arrest of a Bahraini opposition leader, warning that Shaikh Ali Salman’s detention could “inflame tensions.”
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 12:12
The United States significantly stepped up its training of Kyrgyzstan's special forces in 2013, as Washington was trying to convince Bishkek to allow its air base to remain in the country. The U.S. trained 1,024 troops from Kyrgyzstan in fiscal year 2013 (that is, the year beginning October 1, 2012), up from 345 the year before. Of those, 880 were special forces troops which took part in six-week training courses led by their American special forces counterparts, documents newly released by the U.S. State Department show.