Day: October 16, 2011

French Socialists are voting Sunday to choose their candidate to face President Nicolas Sarkozy in next year's presidential election.

Arab foreign ministers will hold an emergency meeting in Cairo about the continuing unrest in Syria, where security forces set up barricades and carried out raids Sunday, according to opposition sources.

Yemeni security forces opened fired on demonstrators Sunday, killing five people and injuring 54 others, according to a medic on the scene. Elsewhere, a woman was killed by a shot from a government sniper, eyewitnesses said.

Iran's parliament could pick the country's leaders "in the distant future" rather than having Iranians elect a president by popular vote, the Islamic republic's supreme leader suggested Sunday.

Iran's parliament could pick the country's leaders "in the distant future" rather than having Iranians elect a president by popular vote, the Islamic republic's supreme leader suggested Sunday.

Kenyan troops are pursuing suspected Islamic militants from Al-Shabaab across the border into Somalia, Kenyan government spokesman Alfred Mutua told CNN Sunday.