BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The European Union threatened Sudan with sanctions on Monday if it refused to allow UN peacekeepers into war-torn Darfur, but rights groups and analysts said the warning was not enough to stop the killings.

NAIROBI (Reuters) — Somali Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed was under guard in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Monday after being taken into custody on the Somali border, Western diplomats and intelligence officials said.

Since the famous Orange Revolution of the end of 2004 in Ukraine, this country is living through a permanent political crisis, which is deepened by deteriorating relations with Russia and