A spokeswoman for Alassane Ouattara, the internationally recognized winner of last month’s Ivory Coast presidential election said embattled President Laurent Gbagbo has recruited fighters from Liberia and Angola to kill supporters of Mr. Ouattara.

Kandia Kamara told VOA Gbagbo supporters are so far responsible for the deaths of as many as 120 young people around the Ivorian commercial capital of Abidjan.

She said Mr. Ouattara wants U.N. peacekeepers to remain in Ivory Coast to protect Ivorians from Mr. Gbagbo and his alleged foreign fighters.

The head of the Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah says the United Nations-backed tribunal investigating the 2005 murder of Lebanon's former prime minister, Rafik Hariri, will "disappear with the wind."

Hassan Nasrallah called the tribunal a "conspiracy" and pledged to defeat its efforts to indict Hezbollah members or anyone else in Mr. Hariri's assassination.

Nasrallah spoke Thursday in a televised address to thousands of his supporters in Hezbollah's stronghold in southern Beirut, on the Shi'ite holy day of Ashura.

A Baltimore man has been arrested and charged in an alleged plot to bomb a military recruiting center in suburban Maryland, federal officials said.

A report by Sweden's federal security service says about 200 radical Islamists are living in Sweden, many of whom are linked to what it calls violent “Islamist extremist ideology” networks.

Wednesday's report by the federal security agency SAPO says the radicalized Muslims focus primarily on supporting militant and terrorist activities in other countries.

It also says the networks present a greater threat to groups and individuals than to the Stockholm government or key institutions.

Nearly 20 humanitarian organizations are calling on the U.N. and international community to prevent another Christmas massacre in the eastern DRC.

They released a new report Tuesday called Ghosts of Christmas Past, which details attacks by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The LRA, originally based in Uganda, has a long history of child abductions, rapes and killings.

Officials in Pakistan say a roadside bomb struck a school bus in northwest Pakistan, killing one person and injuring four others, including two children.

Monday's blast occurred on the outskirts of Peshawar, which lies near the tribal regions of Pakistan and the Afghan border.

Police initially said the driver of the bus was killed, but later identified the dead man as a passerby. Officials say the driver, two girl students and another passerby were injured in the explosion.

Authorities says the bomb may have been intended for police patrols which frequent the area.

Authorities in Sweden say two explosions that rocked the heart of Stockholm's central shopping district were an "act of terrorism". The Swedish Security Service is involved in investigating Saturday's blasts that killed one man and injured two other people.

Witnesses have distributed amateur video footage of Saturday's attacks, showing a burning car parked near a busy shopping street in the capital, Stockholm.

A suicide bomber has killed at least 11 people in northwestern Pakistan, in an attack targeting Shi'ite Muslims.

Police say the bomber detonated his vehicle outside a hospital in Hangu, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Reports say the hospital was being built by the area's Shi'ite community. Friday's attack occurred one day after the start of the holy month of Muharram, which is especially important for Shi'ites and is often marred by bombings by Sunni extremists.

Police in northwest Pakistan say a suicide bomber has struck near a market, killing at least 18 people and wounding more than 30.

Authorities say the attack happened Wednesday in the town of Kohat.

Police say the bomber blew himself by a passenger bus near Tirah market. Officials say the bus was headed to nearby Orakzai district.

No one has claimed responsibility for the blast.

Meanwhile, a purported spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for a deadly blast that took place Monday during an anti-Taliban meeting.