It is time to consider engagement that can improve Indo-Pakistani relations.

A gunman kills at least 12 people at a school in Rio de Janeiro before turning the gun on himself. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

With struggling Portugal seeking aid from the EU and IMF, its neighbour Spain has vowed it will not need to seek a bailout - and so far markets have confidence in Madrid.

The French military overnight rescued the Japanese ambassador to Ivory Coast and several of his staff, who'd been trapped when gunmen stormed his official residence. (April 7)

Japan was rattled by a strong aftershock and tsunami warning Thursday night nearly a month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami flattened the northeastern coast. (April 7)

Abdel Fatah Younis, the commander of opposition forces in Libya, has said his troops have received anti-tank weapons from Qatar.

France has displayed increasing willingness to use its military to respond to conflicts from Libya to Ivory Coast. Margaret Warner discusses the new display of strength with The Sorbonne's Frederic Bozo and the Washington Post's Jim Hoagland

Prof. Fouad Ajami and author Robert Baer discuss the state of the civil war in Libya.

Nic Robertson in Tripoli, Libya, conducted the first on-camera interview with alleged rape victim Eman al-Obeidy.

Ward Sloane and Juan Zarate discuss the continuing turmoil in the Middle East.

The EU must reassess its bilateral relations with Syria, Bahrain and Yemen in the light of their violent repression of demonstrators, and talks on a future Association Agreement with Syria must be suspended, members of the European Parliament said on Thursday as they passed a resolution in Strasbourg.

What the wave of revolutions in the Mediterranean might change for Israel has been under debate among political analysts and academics in Paris, at a two-day meeting organised by the European Jewish Union with Israel's Knesset parliament.

The Ivory Coast and strongman Laurent Gbagbo are in their final days of conflict, according to a UN envoy.

An Iranian dissident group reports that Iran has a facility which is producing centrifuges for the refinement of Uranium outside of Tehran.

 A panel on a secret nuclear facility recently revealed to be within Iran.