The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) has declared a state of emergency at the country's largest oil field Sharara after a group of local protesters "occupied" the site and forced production to shutdown, the company said in a statement on Monday.

Germany returned cultural property illegally brought into the country from Iraq in 2015 and 2016, but there have not been instances of returning Syria's artifacts so far, a representative of German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Monika Grutters told Sputnik on Friday.

Russia condemns the kidnapping of about 80 children from a college in the city of Bamenda in northwestern Cameroon, where the country's English-speaking minority lives, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

Dubai police have recovered a diamond worth AED300,000, only 20 hours after it had been stolen by an Asian couple, a high-ranking police official said on Sunday.

The UN police, working in the Central African Republic (CAR) as part of the peacekeeping mission, is examining the forensic evidence obtained from the site of the murder of three Russian journalists, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations Alexander Zuev told Sputnik

Nigerian troops killed five bandits and lost one soldier in a gun fight in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state, local media reported on Thursday, citing a military official.

US Senators Marco Rubio and Chris Coons wrote a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday urging him to investigate the killing of three Russian journalists in the Central African Republic (CAR).