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Photo from Yahoo! Algeria to spend 500 million euros on flood prevention
AFP - Algeria announced it will spend 500 million euros (675 million dollars) on protecting towns from flooding as the death toll from floods this month rose to 43 on Sunday.
Yahoo!  –  Oct 12, 2008 3:25 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
Zimbabwe Opposition Leader Threatens to Quit Government
Morgan Tsvangirai threatens to pull out of a power-sharing deal with President Robert Mugabe
Voice of America  –  Oct 12, 2008 3:14 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai Commits to Cabinet Negotiations
Morgan Tsvangirai says parties agreed to invite mediator Thabo Mbeki to try to break deadlock and he is not turning his back on dialogue
Voice of America  –  Oct 12, 2008 3:14 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
Zimbabwe political accord in peril
Opposition threatens to pull out of deal after ruling party grabs important ministries.
Al Jazeera  –  Oct 12, 2008 3:07 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
Puntland Forces Kill Pirates in Raid on Ship
Ali Abdi Aware, foreign minister of Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region, says his region's troops exchanged fire with pirates today
Voice of America  –  Oct 12, 2008 3:02 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
Photo from Yahoo! Tsvangirai threatens to pull out of Zimbabwe power-sharing deal
AFP - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai threatened Sunday to pull out of a power-sharing deal aimed at resolving the country's crisis if President Robert Mugabe moved ahead with plans to hand key ministries to his party.
Yahoo!  –  Oct 12, 2008 3:00 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
Zimbabwe opposition leader threatens to quit gov't
AP - Zimbabwe's opposition leader threatened Sunday to pull out of a national unity government if President Robert Mugabe refuses to cede control of key ministries.
Yahoo!  –  Oct 12, 2008 2:38 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
Tsvangirai warns on power-sharing deal
Reuters - Zimbabwe's opposition MDC will walk away from a power-sharing deal if new mediation efforts fail to break a deadlock over cabinet posts, the party's leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Sunday.
Yahoo!  –  Oct 12, 2008 2:15 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
Israel offers 'zero tolerance' to rioters
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the Israeli police Sunday to show "zero tolerance" towards rioters after a fourth night of violence between Arabs and Jews in the northern Israeli city of Acre.
International Herald Tribune  –  Oct 12, 2008 12:06 PM [GMT]  –  comment?
Photo from BBC News Ethiopian need 'under-estimated'
Aid agencies dispute the Ethiopian government's estimates of those suffering in the country's drought.
BBC News  –  Oct 12, 2008 11:25 AM [GMT]  –  comment?