Sierra Leone's governing party said Monday it was confident that incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma would win the weekend election without the need for a second round.

A senior Palestinian militant is now among 100 Palestinians killed in the six days of Israeli air strikes in Gaza. Palestinian officials say half of those victims were civilians.

Hundreds of Egyptian protesters and security forces hurl stones at each other in Cairo, on the one-year anniversary of fierce street clashes that left 42 dead.

Witnesses say an Israeli airstrike has hit a high-rise in downtown Gaza City where a number of local and foreign news organizations have offices.

President Barack Obama is in Cambodia on the final leg of his three-country tour of Southeast Asia.

A police officer says a bomb has exploded outside a Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan's largest city, killing at least two people.

The Senate Intelligence Committee chairman says Congress has ordered the Obama administration to explain who exactly created its "talking points" on the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya, and who omitted the CIA's early conclusion that terrorists were involved.

An explosion on a bus in Kenya's capital killed at least five people and injured more than two dozen.

President Barack Obama says his landmark visit to Myanmar is an acknowledgment of the democratic transition underway but not an endorsement of the country's government.

About 500 Egyptian activists have crossed into Gaza to deliver medical supplies and show support for Palestinians facing an Israeli offensive.

An Israeli missile has flattened a two-story house in a residential neighborhood of Gaza City, as Palestinian militants in Gaza continue to fire rockets toward Israelis cities.

Two Palestinian officials say workers with jackhammers are opening the concrete-encased grave of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in his former compound in the West Bank.

The White House says it believes Israel "has the right to defend itself" against attack and that the Israelis will make their own decisions about their "military tactics and operations."

William Turnbull, a highly regarded British sculptor who drew inspiration from primitive forms, has died at age 90.

The Israeli military says its "Iron Dome" rocket-defense system has shot down an incoming projectile bound for Tel Aviv.

The head of Germany's central bank says Greece will eventually need another debt write-off - but it can't be offered one now and must first work though a long list of reforms.

U.S. officials say a Texas truck driver who says he made a wrong turn into Mexico with a trailer full of ammunition has been released from prison but remains in the custody of immigration authorities.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin says his sacked former defense minister isn't facing charges and may get a new official job.

Britain's High Court has ruled that a Christian was unfairly demoted for posting his opposition to gay marriage on Facebook.

Indonesia has asked Southeast Asian countries and China to establish emergency communication lines to allow officials to rapidly contain any outbreak of violence in disputed South China Sea territories as a solution to the long-unresolved conflicts remains elusive.

A British radio station has suspended the radio program of a disc jockey who has been arrested as part of a national child sex abuse scandal.

The French-speaking city of Montreal has elected an English-speaking mayor for the first time in 100 years.

Organizers of the annual bullfighting festival in Ecuador's capital are calling it quits a year after it stopped killing bulls in accordance with the will of voters.

The U.N. nuclear agency says Iran is poised to double output of higher-enriched uranium that can be turned easily into the core of a nuclear warhead.

Ikea "deeply regrets" use of forced prison labor by suppliers in communist East Germany.