India’s political parties have blamed each other for religious riots that killed at least 31 people and forced hundreds to flee from their homes.

A suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into a church in northern Nigeria, killing three people and triggering reprisal attacks.

Egyptian media on Monday accused "anti-revolutionaries" of trying to trigger sectarian conflict.

Nigerian police said on Tuesday at least 326 people died in Muslim-Christian clashes last week in the central Plateau State.