North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has overseen a military drill, state media said Saturday, his third such inspection in as many days as tensions run high following Pyongyang's third nuclear test.

Accompanied by top military commanders, Kim watched a flight exercise and a paratrooping drill by the Korean People's Army, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.

Presidents from Africa's Great Lakes regional nations will meet Sunday for the latest bid to ink a deal on an accord aimed at pacifying the war-torn east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has invited 11 presidents to sign the regional "peace framework agreement" -- a commitment to end the conflict, but without specific details -- at the African Union headquarters in the Ethiopian capital.

The ruling party in the tiny Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti said on Saturday it had won a parliamentary election based on preliminary results, as the opposition denounced what it called widespread fraud during voting.

The ruling Union for the Presidential Majority (UMP) party "received 49.39 percent of the votes against 47.61 percent for the opposition" in the capital, home to three-quarters of the population, Interior Minister Hassan Darar Houffaneh told reporters.

Militants attacked a police van in Pakistan's northwest on Saturday, killing a police official and wounding two others, authorities said.

A gunbattle erupted after the assault in which two militants were also killed, local police chief Mohammad Hussain told Agence France Presse.

When King Juan Carlos appeared at a recent basketball game in front of thousands of subjects, he was greeted by persistent heckling and whistling. It was an unprecedented spectacle in a nearly four-decade reign over which the monarch has basked in the nation's love and respect.

What happened? The immediate cause is a corruption scandal engulfing Juan Carlos' son-in-law, Inaki Urdangarin, which has angered Spaniards in a time of crushing austerity. But the aging Juan Carlos himself has seemed increasingly out of touch with his people as they try to keep afloat in Europe's economic storm.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday pledged with Japan's new leader to take a firm line on a defiant North Korea but the two sides also tried to calm rising tensions between Tokyo and China.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe carefully avoided disagreements with Obama after previous Japanese governments' rifts and declared: "The alliance between Japan and the United States is back now. It's completely back."

Eleven African countries have been invited to sign a U.N.-brokered accord this weekend aiming to end more than two decades of conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the U.N. spokesman said Friday.

U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon will make a new bid to get the accord signed in Addis Ababa on Sunday. If successful the agreement could lead to creation of a special U.N. 'intervention brigade' in eastern DR Congo to combat rebel groups as well as new political efforts.

The U.S. ambassador to Moscow called on Russia to stop "sensational exploitation" of the tragic death in Texas of an adopted Russian boy as parliament Friday issued a special appeal to the U.S. Congress on the escalating scandal.

The January death of three-year-old Maxim Kuzmin was this week alleged by some Russian officials to be murder by his mother Laura Shatto, whipping up a storm of controversy less than two months after Russia banned U.S. adoptions.

Pakistani police on Friday detained the head of a banned Sunni Muslim extremist group that claimed responsibility for deadly sectarian bomb attacks in the southern city of Quetta.

Malik Ishaq, the leader Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ), was held after two recent bombings in the city targeting the Shiite Hazara minority killed more than 180 people, sparking nationwide protests.

An Iranian diplomat in Oslo has defected and is now seeking asylum in Norway, his lawyer said on Friday.

"He doesn't want to comment in public on his reasons for doing this," Joergen Loevdal said.