While Syrian pour across the border into Turkey to escape the armies of Assad, the Turks already have their hands full with a crucial national election this weekend. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is expected to score an easy victory.
Palash Ghosh
Jun 10, 2011
Fifteen years after its civil war ended, Croatia prepares to be the EU's 28th member state.
Daniel Tovrov
Jun 10, 2011
The Syrian army has reportedly deployed its forces and tanks into the northern town of Jisr al-Shughur, where local residents fear they will be massacred in retaliation for what the government claims was the alleged killing of 120 security officers a few days ago.
Palash Ghosh
Jun 10, 2011
It's Lady Gaga who will be performing at the closing ceremony of Gay pride event in Rome this weekend, organizers announced.
Drishya Nair
Jun 10, 2011
Outrage is brewing in Pakistan following the murder of an innocent unarmed young man in Karachi by a paramilitary officer.
Palash Ghosh
Jun 09, 2011
Israeli settlers, still at large, rolled burning tires into a mosque in the West Bank village of Maghayer in the early morning and scrawled Hebrew-language graffiti across the building's exterior.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 09, 2011
Turkey, in an act of generosity has welcomed anxious Syrian refugees on Wednesday and urged Syrian government to stop violence against civilians after thousands of people abandoned a town near the Turkish frontier in fear of military assault.
Drishya Nair
Jun 08, 2011
President Obama met with the crown prince of Bahrain on Tuesday and urged to carry out political and economic reforms, and pressed him to investigate alleged abuses after a February crackdown on dissenters earned Bahrain international condemnation.
Jeremy White
Jun 08, 2011
The election this weekend in Turkey is expected to bring an easy victory to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.
Palash Ghosh
Jun 07, 2011
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay was deeply troubled by Israel's attack on Syrian protesters at their shared border Sunday, she said in a press conference today.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 07, 2011
Syrian state news claimed that at least 40 of the government’s security officers and policemen were killed by “armed gangs” in an ambush and bombing in the northwestern town of Jisr al-Shughour.
Palash Ghosh
Jun 06, 2011
U.S. Internet search giant Google has become a political tool denigrating the Chinese government, said an official Beijing newspaper on Monday. The newspaper warned Google that its statements about hacking attacks traced to China could hurt its business.
Kukil Bora
Jun 06, 2011
Humala takes office and the stocks plummet in the
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 06, 2011
The Syrian government shut down most of its Internet services on Friday as protests against President Bashir al-Assad increased.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 04, 2011
The British Foreign Secretary William Hague has visited with Libyan rebel groups in the eastern part of the country in a bid to support and uphold the opposition movement seeking to remove Moammar Gaddafi from power.
Palash Ghosh
Jun 04, 2011
Digital activist group Anonymous Operations has announced on Friday to hack Syrian Embassy all over the world in response to the internet crack down in the country to quell the pro-democracy demonstrations.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 04, 2011
At least 34 demonstrators calling for President Bashar al-Assad to quit were killed by the Syrian security forces in the latest crackdown in the city of Hama on Friday, activists said.
Kukil Bora
Jun 03, 2011
In a rare and unusual protest, women marched in Johannesburg, South Africa Thursday protesting xenophobic attacks on foreign immigrants, primarily Somalis and Pakistanis, many of whom have set up shops in the shanty towns.
Palash Ghosh
Jun 03, 2011
In a shocking announcement, Google said Chinese hackers have hacked into hundreds of Gmail accounts of senior US and South Korean government officials, military personnel, and Chinese political activists and journalists through a carefully targeted and sustained phishing scam.
Surojit Chatterjee
Jun 02, 2011
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence denied the allegations against them that its operatives were behind the abduction and killing of the journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 02, 2011
A 19-member international panel has condemned the US-led War on Drugs campaign as a failure and has recommended major reforms of the global drug prohibition regime.
Monami Thakur
Jun 02, 2011
Google said that Gmail email accounts in United States and Asia have been penetrated by hackers who stole the passwords through a phishing scam. Many of the accounts broken belonged to senior US government officials Chinese political activists, military personnel, and journalists.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 01, 2011
