RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi police forces exchanged fire with a group of masked men during a protest in the kingdom's east killing one, state news agency SPA reported early Saturday, in the second such incident over the past 48 hours.

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.