Many regional officials and militia commanders continued to perpetrate human rights violations with impunity.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has demanded that Israel put an end to all settlement building in the Palestinian territories, in a newspaper interview published Saturday.

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Associated Press Writer MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) Renewed fighting between government troops and Islamist insurgents in the Somali capital killed seven people on Friday, residents and an independent radio station said.

Somalia’s Western-backed government forces have launched a major attack against Islamist militants in the capital, Mogadishu.

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The UN has appealed for a total of $543m in humanitarian aid to help more than 1.6 million people displaced by fighting in north-west Pakistan.