1,200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have gone on a hunger strike on Tuesday, National Prisoner's Day, to protest Israel's practice of administrative detention and the intolerable treatment in Israeli jails.
Four men are on trial for alleged plans to attack a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad
As Mali prepares to organize new elections following the swearing in of interim president Dioncounda Traoré on Thursday, crises in the north continue to escalate.
Rights groups also demanded Bajadi’s immediate release and called for a fair public trial for the activist.
According to eyewitnesses, the suicide bomber detonated his device after steering a motorcycle into the group as they filmed interviews in a street market in Maymana.
French police arrested 10 more suspected Islamic radicals during pre-dawn raids across the country on Wednesday, marking the second such day of mass arrests in less than a week.
The United States announced a $10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Hafiz Safeed, an alleged terrorist from Pakistan. The move, lauded by India, is likely to strain the already tense relationship between Pakistan and the United States.
After the Mumbai attacks, Saeed and other LeT members were arrested by Pakistani police, but later released on appeal.
Hashemi denies the government's terrorism charges, claiming they are motivated by politics given his prominence as a Sunni lawmaker.
Fadwa Suleiman, Syrian actress and a high-profile Alawite member of the Syrian revolution led by an opposition dominated by Sunni Muslims, against the government controlled by Alawites, is saddened that the revolution is not going in the right direction.
Despite their political differences, varied economic clout and undefined association, the meeting between the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa is set to highlight the group's growing independence
Following the recent military coup, the West African regional bloc suspended Mali from participation and threatens the use of force to restore the constitutional government.
Like Nosferatu, Merah was also a merciless killer who seemed to have not a whit of morality nor restraint.
Al-Jazeera said on Tuesday that it will not show the video it obtained of the attacks on French soldiers, Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi.
Al Jazeera decided not to broadcast Mohammed Merah's video of the Toulouse massacre.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged television stations not to telecast the video footage of Toulouse killer Mohamed Merah, amid reports that al-Jazeera is considering relaying the video clippings.
After failed attempts in the U.N. Security Council to formulate a demand that President Bashar al-Assad end a deadly crackdown on dissenters, his government accepted Annan's six-point plan.
On Monday, Al Jazeera announced that it had gained access to hundreds of pages of confidential documents prepared for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The UN and human rights activists estimate that at least 8,000 people in Syria have been killed over the past 12 months during the regime’s brutal crackdown on dissent. Untold thousands of others have been arrested.
Lubanga, who was arrested seven years ago, could face up to life imprisonment
The BNP’s Islamist ally, Jamaat-e-Islami, also participated and demanded that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina quit.
Israel claimed it launched the attack to retaliate for prior rocket launches onto its territory by militants in Gaza.
