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The death toll from Kenya's post-election bloodletting has risen to 1,000, the Red Cross said on Tuesday, as political rivals began the toughest part of their negotiations so far. Fighting in west Kenya in recent days between rival ethnic gangs had increased the number of deaths, the Red Cross said.

Thousands of civilians fled Chad's capital N'Djamena on Monday after rebels broke off a two-day assault but threatened a fresh attempt to topple President Idriss Deby.

President Mwai Kibaki's government accused rival Raila Odinga's party of unleashing genocide in Kenya on Wednesday as the death toll from tribal violence over a disputed election passed 300.

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said on Wednesday he planned to investigate senior Sudanese government officials over continuing crimes against humanity in Darfur.

The British teacher who was jailed in Sudan for letting her young students name a teddy bear Mohammed is now back in her hometown in Northern England and received a welcome note from local Muslims, according to news reports.

The British teacher who was jailed in Sudan for letting her young students name a teddy bear Mohammed is now back in her hometown in Northern England and received a welcome note from local Muslims, according to news reports.

Gillian Gibbons, the teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her students name a teddy bear Mohammed arrived in Britain on Tuesday morning after being pardoned and said she was sorry to leave the country and never imagined this would happen, according to news reports.

A British teacher in Sudan who was convicted of insulting the Islamic religion received a pardon from Sudan's president on Monday and has left the country on a flight back home, according to the British Foreign Office.

The British teacher jailed in Sudan for letting her students name a teddy bear Mohammad won a pardon on Monday and was released into British care.

A British teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammad will be released on Monday after receiving a pardon from Sudan's president, a source in a British parliamentary delegation said.

Sudanese demonstrators took to the streets of Khartoum after Friday prayers, demanding the execution of British teacher currently jailed for naming a teddy bear Mohammed.

Sudanese demonstrators took to the streets of Khartoum after Friday prayers, demanding the execution of British teacher currently jailed for naming a teddy bear Mohammed.

A British teacher based in Sudan was found guilty on Thursday of insulting Islam and was sentenced to 15 days imprisonment for naming a teddy bear Mohammed, British authorities reported.

Three days of fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu displaced 88,000 people from their homes, adding to hundreds of thousands who fled violence earlier this year, the United Nations said on Thursday.

Sudanese government officials and Darfur rebels will meet privately on Monday to discuss an agenda for peace talks but delegates said little real progress was expected in the absence of key rebel leaders.

Delegations gathered in Libya on Saturday to launch talks to end 4-1/2 years of conflict in Sudan's Darfur region but the absence of key rebels cast doubt on whether negotiations could produce any meaningful deal.

The United States will consider further sanctions against Sudan if it continues "dragging its feet" over accepting a U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force, a top U.S. official said on Thursday.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc's Warren Buffett said on Wednesday he is scouring the world for big businesses, but is doubtful about finding a good buy in China because the market is too hot.

Talks to resolve a standoff in Sudan's national coalition government adjourned on Thursday without agreement, prolonging the crisis threatening a fragile peace agreement that ended two decades of war.

Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade said on Monday he would pull his country's troops out of Darfur if it was determined that African peacekeepers who were killed at the weekend were not equipped to defend themselves.

Sudan's northern government has taken $6.51 million from the south's oil revenues, saying it was for custom exemptions granted to vital aid to rebuild the war-torn region, a southern official said.