(Euronews: 0221 PST, April 27, 2011) Nigeria's electoral process has once again been marred by violence as the country voted for 36 state governors. Bombs exploded in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, but no one was hurt. At least three people have been killed there since Sunday. Elsewhere, soldiers shot one man and arrested a number of others for stealing ballot boxes across several states.

Nigeria Votes Again, Despite Violence

(Al Jazeera English: 0506 PST, April 27, 2011) Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege, reporting from Kano, has more on Nigeria's three weeks of elections, and the violence surrounding them.

(Euronews: 1019 PST, April 26, 2011) Thai and Cambodian troops have exchanged rockets and gunfire near to a sacred temple in South East Asia's bloodiest border dispute in years. At least 13 people are reported dead in the confrontation that has been simmering for the past five days. More than 50,000 people have fled to evacuation shelters as the fighting has spread.

(Euronews: 0739 PST, April 26, 2011) UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Tuesday that Britain is working on "possible further measures" to be taken against the Syrian government unless it stops attacking its own people. This comes as amateur video footage emerged on the internet that appears to show Syrian security forces shooting at protesters in Deraa yesterday.

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Syria: Deraa Witness Says 'Snipers Are Everywhere'

(Al Jazeera English: 0320 PST, April 26, 2011) A resident of Deraa, who we are not naming for security reasons, described to Al Jazeera, through a translator, a desperate situation on the ground in the restive southern city.

(Al Jazeera English: 0701 PST, April 25, 2011) In Libya, NATO forces launched an attack on Muammar Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli as fighting continues between opposition and pro-government forces across the country. Al Jazeera's Omar Al Saleh reports.

'30 Killed' in Fresh Misurata Strikes

(Euronews: 0427 PST, April 25, 2011) Rocket attacks by Libyan government forces on Misrata have killed at least 30 people and wounded 60, a witnesss was quoted by Reuters as saying during a television interview.

Ahmed al-Qadi, an engineer for a dissident radio station, told Al Arabiya that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's men were carrying out "very intense and random shelling on residential areas." The fresh bombardments come two days after the government announced its withdrawal following an eight-week battle for control of the besieged western city.

(Euronews: 0604 PST, April 25, 2011) Syrian government tanks and troops have gone on the offensive in the southern town of Deraa, the cradle of the protests which began last month. Residents say the forces moved in just after dawn prayers, opened fire at random, while bodies were left lying in the street. The military action is evidence, say rights groups of the escalating crackdown in cities across the country.

Syria has now closed all its land border crossings with neighbouring Jordan in what one official said, "related to what appears to be a major security operation."

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