Sudan's embattled al-Bashir flies to Qatar, his first trip abroad since protests against his rule began nearly five weeks ago
Qatari satellite broadcaster Al Jazeera says that its correspondents in Sudan have had their work permits withdrawn by security officials
Pakistani officials raise death toll from collision between bus, oil tanker the previous day to 27
A Pakistani official says a bus has collided with an oil tanker, killing 13 passengers and leaving another 16 with severe burns
A Saudi demining group says five of its international experts have been killed by an accidental explosion in Yemen while transporting mines and explosives to be destroyed
Mine official: Methane gas explosion in coalmine in southwestern Pakistan kills at least 3 miners
Pakistani PM's party asking top court to disqualify ex-president from parliament for allegedly concealing assets abroad
Iraq's new prime minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, has visited Basra, a city that saw riots last summer over acute water pollution and crippling power outages
Volkswagen Group says it will pay a fine of 1 billion rupees ($14.2 million) imposed by India for installing software on vehicles that allegedly cheated pollution testing devices, though it is still appealing the order
Turkey deported a Dutch journalist on Thursday after receiving information about her from prosecutors in the Netherlands involved in a terrorism investigation
