MOGADISHU (Reuters) — Somalia’s government, with new emergency powers in hand to tame the chaotic country, ordered four major media outlets to shut down on Monday as the president named a team to take charge of the capital.

QUITO (AFP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be a guest of honour Monday at the inauguration of leftist Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, who won an election late last year as a fervent critic of the United States.

CAIRO (AP) — A journalist from the pan-Arab Al Jazeera TV channel was released on bail Sunday after being interrogated for possessing     videotapes with fabricated scenes of torture by Egyptian police, her lawyer said.

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