Spaniards voted in a parliamentary election on November 20 that was expected to throw out the ruling Socialists and bring in a new center-right government to tackle the country's dire economic situation.

Egyptian riot police firing tear gas and rubber bullets stormed into Cairo's Tahrir Square early November 19 to dismantle a protest camp erected a day earlier, killing one person and injuring more than 650 others.

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on November 19 that floods had receded in central Bangkok and the area is now safe from the worst deluge that hit the country over the past half a century.

Colonel Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam has been captured, Libyan officials say.

The Declaration of the East Asia Summit (EAS) on the Principles for Mutually Beneficial Relations and the Declaration on ASEAN Connectivity were adopted as the outcome documents of the 6th EAS that concluded in Bali, Indonesia on November 19.

The UN's nuclear watchdog has passed a resolution expressing "deep and increasing concern" about Iran's nuclear programme.

Tens of thousands of Egyptians have gathered in Tahrir Square, Cairo to protest against Egypt's military rulers after the military council proposed controversial constitutional changes.

Six people have been injured by an explosive device thrown into a large crowd who were trying a fix a breach in a sandbag flood barrier in Bangkok's Sai Mai district on November 17.

Greece's new national unity government submited a 2012 austerity budget to parliament on November 18, its first task in meeting the terms of the country's bailout and avoiding bankruptcy.

Kenya is prepared to send troops to bolster the African Union (AU) force in Somalia to tackle militant Islamists, Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula says.