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Voters in the 4 December 2005 presidential election in Kazakhstan before casting their ballots in the capital, Astana.

Security Council in session

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis addressing the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Winter Meeting, Vienna, 24 February 2011.

Libyan protesters shout anti-Gadhafi slogans during a demonstration in the eastern Libyan town of Derna on Wednesday.

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has said that America is not worried about maintaining peace in Libya but is more concerned about country's oil reserves.

Hailing his strike force, Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti has said that he thought he now had control of the best forwards in Europe after their comfortable victory against Danish champions FC Copenhagen.

British Intelligence outfit MI5 had dismissed the July 7 ringleader as a Jihadi 'tourist' when he had travelled to Pakistan in 2003 to attend a terrorist training camp, the inquest into the 2005 attacks on London's transport system has heard.

The United Nations human rights chief today denounced the violence by security forces against protesters in Libya, Bahrain and other countries in the Middle East and North Africa as illegal and excessively heavy-handed.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has once again called for the non-use of force and respect for basic freedoms, as he voiced concern about reports of escalating violence and bloodshed amid the protests in North Africa and the Middle East.

Voter registration underway, but electoral challenges remain