A dissident journalist who has gone nine days without eating or drinking told The Associated Press on Friday that he is willing to give his life to call attention to the plight of Cuba's political prisoners. If he does, Guillermo Farinas would be ...

Finnish-German telecom equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) on Friday countered allegations technology it sold to Iran in 2008 could be used to monitor Internet traffic. NSN sold GSM networks to Iran and "supplied one client with a certain additional feature, which is no longer in our portfolio", spokeswoman Riitta Maard told AFP. That feature, she said, could "be used ...

A Namibian court on Thursday dismissed an application by nine opposition parties contesting last year's election results which gave President Hifikepunye Pohamba's party a landslide victory. "I order that the case of the nine opposition parties is to be struck from the court roll and that the applicants must pay the costs," High Court judge president Petrus Damaseb ...

Ivory Coast's opposition parties on Thursday entered a new government, putting an end to a political crisis triggered when President Laurent Gbagbo last month dissolved the previous cabinet. The 11 posts reserved for opposition parties in a 28-member team led by Prime Minister Guillaume Soro were handed out in the morning, under a decree read by Gbagbo's secretary-general ...