KAZAN — Governments around the world must be more agressive in fighting the spread of extremist ideology over the Internet, the head of Russia’s Federal Security Service said Wednesday.

Durban — Teachers referring to black children as baboons and a poster depicting them as having primitive brains are just some of the allegations being levelled against a Bloemfontein school.

SRINAGAR — Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said militant violence in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir has fallen to its lowest level since its beginning.

Kinshasa. — Eleven years after an eruption of Mount Nyiragongo devastated the sprawling lakeside city of Goma, killing hundreds of people, eastern DRC armed conflict is preventing scientists from predicting the volcano’s next deadly explosion.

BERLIN. — The eastern part of Germany, including states of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, faced worsening floods yesterday even as conditions improved as water level fell in southern Germany.

Addis Ababa. — Egyptian officials tried to cool tensions with Ethiopia yesterday over the new Nile River dam project by highlighting its “neighbourliness” as the Ethiopian prime minister’s spokesperson insisted that nothing would stop the dam from being completed upstream from Egypt, which is wholly dependent on Nile River water.

Kabul. — Hundreds of Afghans blocked a major highway south of Kabul yesterday, carrying freshly dug-up bodies they claimed were victims of torture by US special forces and demanding the

TEHRAN - Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday that the next Iranian president should focus on the country’s economy which is targeted by the West.

CAIRO — An Egyptian court yesterday convicted 43 non-profit workers, including at least 16 Americans, of illegally using foreign funds to foment unrest in the country and sentenced them to up to five years in

LUSAKA. - Zambian President Michael Sata said Africa has been made into a “guinea pig” in the last 50 years by developed nations that pretend to help transform the continent, the Zambia Daily Mail reported

The Hague. —  Judges at the International Criminal Court on Monday gave prosecutors until November to rescue their case against former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, saying the evidence