Day: February 26, 2012

Senegal is voting Sunday in an election overshadowed by violence as protesters demand the nation's elderly president refrain from seeking another term.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC, said Sunday it will free and no longer hold police or military hostages. It did not address the fate of civilian captives.

At least 34 people were killed across Syria on Sunday, opposition activists said, as voting began on changes to the country's constitution.

Rupert Murdoch launched a new British tabloid Sunday to replace his disgraced News of the World, seven months after the best-selling Sunday paper was shut down over a phone-hacking and bribery scandal.

Egypt's criminal fraud case against 16 American aid workers is set to begin Sunday as a senior U.S. administration official said intense discussions are under way with Cairo to avert a trial that threatens U.S. military aid to the country.

Nelson Mandela looked "healthy and happy" Sunday, a day after officials said the ailing anti-apartheid icon underwent treatment for an abdominal ailment at a South African hospital.

A militia in Libya is illegally holding two British journalists, refusing to turn them over to transitional government authorities and preventing international aid workers from visiting them, Human Rights Watch said Sunday.