The United Nations Security Council has approved plans to almost double the number of UN peacekeepers in South Sudan.

In a meeting with the Special Assistant to the President of Iran on ethnic and religious minorities, Ali Younesi, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid Isma’eelzahi urged on the adherence to the national constitution by all. He termed execution of justice and equality the main demands and concerns of religious and ethnic minorities of Iran.

A suicide bomb attack at an army base outside Benghazi in eastern Libya killed at least six people and wounded up to 15 on Sunday, medical and security sources said.

Christian militia attacked Muslim neighbourhoods in the capital of the Central African Republic on Friday, as France appealed to European partners for assistance in quelling months of religious violence in its former colony.

A London bus driver has managed to save the life of a woman in labor, rushing her to the hospital after she waited for more than 75 minutes for an ambulance close to midnight.

Hundreds of people are believed to have died in clashes between rival South Sudan army factions, the UN says, quoting unconfirmed reports.

The outstanding Sunni leader, Shaikh Ab. Hamid, has called on the government of Dr. Hassan Rouhani, Iranian moderate president, to ignore the pressures of the extremist sides over marginalizing the Iranian Sunni community.

At least three people were killed and many were injured when police opened fire on Jamaat e Islami activists who were protesting the execution of JI leader Abdul Quader Molla on Sunday.

A bomb explosion killed and wounded several members of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali in the troubled northern city of Kidal, a spokesman for the mission said Saturday.

Bangladesh on Thursday hanged an Islamist leader known as the “Butcher of Mirpur”, making him the first person to be put to death for massacres committed during the bloody 1971 war of independence.