ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Sudan and South Sudan signed a "treaty of non-aggression" on their disputed border Friday in Addis Ababa, where African Union-led negotiations between the two sides are being held.

ATHENS (AFP) - Greece's coalition government early Saturday approved a eurozone debt deal and accompanying austerity measures that were tabled in parliament for a vote the next day, the semi-state ANA agency said.

CHICAGO (AFP) - German carmaker BMW has agreed to pay $3 million in civil penalties for failing to report safety defects soon enough, US safety regulators said Friday.

CAIRO (AFP) - The ruling military in Egypt said on Friday's eve of the first anniversary of the revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak that it will not bow to threats or plots against the state, official television said.

PARIS (AFP) - Standard and Poor's on Friday lowered the credit rating of 34 Italian banks in a move that follows the agency's two-notch downgrade of Italy on January 13.