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Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has postponed a political trip to the central city of Mandalay, because she could not get permission to hold a campaign rally at a local football stadium.

A spokesman for the Nobel laureate's National League for Democracy party tells VOA's Burmese service that party organizers followed instructions from elections officials for securing the stadium on Saturday. But he said local football officials, after several days of negotiations, told party organizers the stadium would be closed for government inspections.

Scores of passengers are still missing after a ferry sank early Thursday off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea.

Nerae Marimahu, a spokeswoman with the Pacific nation's National Maritime Safety Authority in Port Moresby, told VOA the MV Rabaul Queen sank about 16 kilometers off Cape Fortification. She said it was not immediately clear why the ferry sank.

The maritime agency says at least 300 passengers were believed to be aboard the ferry when it sank.

Thousands of Syrian refugees have fled into northern Lebanon to escape the violence. Syrians live in fear despite finding a temporary safe haven as local Lebanese have lost a key point of commerce.

A checkpoint guards the one road into Wadi Khaled. Beyond that, there’s little sign of the Lebanese army. Lying on the border, this town used to be a booming frontier trading post. It’s just 20 minutes’ drive to the flashpoint Syrian city, Homs.

Egypt's refusal to allow several American citizens to leave the country has heightened tensions between the traditional allies and has some people wondering if it heralds a more fraught, post-revolution relationship. But others in Egypt believe it may be little more than the military leaders posturing for a domestic audience.

Several Americans took refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Cairo after being barred from leaving Egypt, raising the stakes in a confrontation concerning U.S.-backed democracy organizations and prompting questions about the future of $1.3 billion in U.S. aid.

Police in Bangladesh fired guns and used tear gas on protesters at opposition rallies in the southeast, killing at least four and injuring more than 200 others.

Authorities say the shootings took place Sunday in two towns -- Chandpur and Laksmipur -- where Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists were demonstrating for the reinstatement of a caretaker voting system.

Authorities say the protesters pelted officers with stones and attempted to break through police barricades, prompting officers to open fire.

Today, a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Detroit, Michigan recommended that Robert J. Muise, the attorney for Christian Pastor George Saieg, be awarded $103,401.96 in fees and costs for successfully challenging the City of Dearborn’s restriction on the Christian’s right to freedom of speech at the 2009 Arab Festival held in the City. The City, not wanting to offend its large Muslim population, would not allow the Christian to hand out religious literature at the Festival.

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says that a mutiny led by a retired military commander is over and that the government has regained control of its defense headquarters.

Yaura Sasa and a group of around 30 armed rebel soldiers placed the country's top commander under house arrest in a bloodless, pre-dawn mutiny early Thursday. He threatened unspecified military action unless O'Neill complied with a Supreme Court order to reinstate ousted Prime Minister Michael Somare.

Kenya’s finance minister and head of civil service have resigned their positions following the International Criminal Court’s recent decision to proceed with their cases. The two are among four suspects who must stand trial for crimes against humanity in connection with the country’s post-election violence several years ago. The two suspects have come under increasing pressure to step aside.