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CAIRO (Reuters) — An Egyptian court was right to convict a minibus driver shown in an Internet video being sodomised by police while in custody, but the police should also be punished, the man’s lawyer said on Tuesday.

REVIEW TOPICS: Yanukovich’s team in Ukraine concentrates economic and power levers of administration in its hands Scale of mass disturbances in Kharkov, Ukraine, has not been not known since 2001 Ukrainian parliament’s committee head insists on law enforcement bodies reforms Replacements in Security Service of Ukraine come to capital city …

MOGADISHU (AP) — The first African peacekeepers to help the government assert its authority in Somalia are expected by the end of January, the prime minister said Tuesday.

CAIRO (AP) — Saudi Arabia has asked Arab leaders to convene their annual summit in the kingdom’s capital, reversing an earlier decision not to host it, the Arab League chief said Monday.

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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.

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.

“In a land of shadows where the state has all the power and all the secrets and its citizens have neither, simple survival can require at least a dialogue, if not a deal, with the devil. The lines separating prudence from cowardice, silence from acquiescence and compromise from collaboration can …

REVIEW TOPICS: Novaya Gazeta blames Russian secret services, army special-task troops on involvement in death squads Russia seeks British help in Litvinenko’s death probe, asks for permission to interview more than 100 people Russia’s FSB hosts informal meeting of 118 security services from 55 countries

REVIEW TOPICS: Purge in Bulgaria’s security services, National Security Service head sent as ambassador to Africa Czechs and Slovaks agree to split military archives Poland’s Communist-era security police members to lose high pensions