North Africa

Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay has stormed out of an international conference on Libya organized in Italy over what he described as "attempts to keep Turkey out of the process" in the northern African country. 

The trial concerning the Andromeda, a Tanzania-flagged cargo ship that was intercepted off the coast of Crete in January carrying 410 tons of explosives and suspected to be headed to Islamist militants in Libya, is set to begin in the port city of Piraeus on Tuesday.

Libya's police say some 400 prisoners have escaped from a jail in the capital amid fighting between rival militias.

In this Aug. 20, 2012 file photo, an Egyptian youth, trailed by his friends, gropes a woman crossing the street with her friends in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Ahmed Abd El Latif, El Shorouk Newspaper, File)

Seoul said Thursday it had deployed a warship to Libya in an apparent show of force to secure the release of a South Korean national kidnapped along with three Filipinos in the North African country.

MADRID (AP) — Around 800 migrants stormed border fences separating Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco to get into Europe, police said Thursday.

Spain's Civil Guard said 602 migrants made it onto Spanish soil in a massive assault on high, barbed-wire fences shortly after dawn.

The introduction of electronic tickets for specific museums and archaeological sites around the country is good news indeed. 

However, there are still many rivers to cross before a comprehensive strategy is developed to make the most out of the country's archaeological wealth and the revenue it can draw. 

Libya rejects a European Union's plan to establish migrant centers there to stop asylum seekers arriving in western Europe and it will not be swayed by financial inducements, Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj said.

During their meeting in Belgrade on Thursday, Vucic emphasized that Egypt was "a true friend of both Serbia and the Serbian people and stressed that it is necessary to work on intensifying cooperation at all levels, especially on strengthening economic relations," the president's press service said.

Archaeologists in Egypt stumbled upon a new discovery dating back to more than 2,500 years ago near Egypt's famed pyramids at an ancient necropolis south of Cairo.