YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar officials have freed a leading dissident Buddhist monk after a brief detention, his monastery said Saturday, following a call from the United States for his immediate release.

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.