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The UK, the US and France are in favour of a strategic oil release.

Up to 1923 prisoners were executed in 63 countries around the world in 2011.

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Campaign to bring Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony to justice moves up a gear.

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Kony 2012 film by NGO Invisible Children has created a buzz and divided opinion on the internet.

NGO Invisible Children's Kony 2012 campaign faces backlash amid accusations of misinformation and lack of transparency.

Campaign takes internet by storm to raise awareness about Joseph Kony, Lord's Resistance Army leader, who has forced 66,000 children into becoming soldiers.

Egyptian Bedoiun smugglers target growing number of African migrants crossing harsh desert terrain in bid to reach Israel.

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Moscow and Beijing arms race to Sudan leading to human rights violations in Darfur, Amnesty International says.

The attack was launched by the Sudan People's Liberation Army against a road-building site in South Kordofan, where the Chinese workers were employed.

Hamas leader are expected to visit Iran next week, Fars news agency reported.

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Syrian opposition members are urging the Arab League for the exclusion of General Mustafa al-Dabi as head of the delegation currently in the country to ensure President Assad's pledges to end the crackdown.

Arab League observers just yards from fatal shooting outside mosque as Syria death toll rises another 13.

The Arab League on Wednesday chose a Sudanese former general to lead the body's monitoring group to Syria.

Sudanese stranded in their tens of thousands in makeshift refugee camps need help to get home, says Amnesty.

Two wives of Osama bin Laden, who have been held in Pakistan following the raid in May that killed the former head of al Qaeda, are set to return to their homeland of Saudi Arabia.

Hamas is making contingency plans for the potential fall of the Syrian regime, Reuters reported Sunday.

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Seven people accused of belonging to a powerful rebel group in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region have been sentenced to death by a Sudanese court, state media said.

With neighbours including Egypt and Libya, and after years of tensions and violent clashes with the newly separated South, Sudan finds itself in the middle of a region that is rapidly changing, but President al-Bashir dismissed speculation of an Arab Spring in the country.

Maltreatment of African workers in Arab nations has been highlighted by reports that migrants suffered human rights violations during the Libyan conflict.