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Too ill to be flogged: Saudi Arabia postpones blogger’s next 50 lashes
The flogging of writer Raif Badawi has been postponed on medical grounds, Amnesty International has said.
Too ill to be flogged: Saudi Arabia postpones blogger’s next 50 lashes
The flogging of writer Raif Badawi has been postponed on medical grounds, Amnesty International has said.
Europe on edge: Paris police nab terror suspects, Germans arrest extremists
Police arrested a dozen people suspected of providing “logistical support” to the Islamist militant gunmen in last week’s Paris killings,...
Netanyahu ‘is as bad as Paris terrorists’ - Turkish PM slams Israeli ‘crimes’
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Thursday accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of crimes against humanity comparable to those behind...
'Momma's boy' arrested in suspected bombing plot on U.S. Capitol building
An Ohio man, described by his father as a “momma’s boy who never left the house,” was arrested and charged on Wednesday in connection...
French comic Dieudonne arrested over Charlie Hebdo Facebook post
French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala was detained for questioning on Wednesday after writing on his Facebook account he felt like “Charlie...
Singapore navy locates fuselage of downed AirAsia jet
A Singapore navy ship has located the fuselage of the AirAsia plane that crashed into the sea late last month with 162 people on board, the city-state’s...
Charlie Hebdo sells out within hours as al-Qaida in Yemen claim attack
The first edition of Charlie Hebdo published after the deadly attacks by Islamist gunmen sold out in France within minutes of newspaper kiosks opening...
U.S. rejects North Korea’s offer for direct talks, pushes for more sanctions
Amid calls for stiffer action against North Korea, the Obama administration told Congress on Tuesday the U.S.
Hollande vows France ‘will never yield’ as terror attack victims are buried
President Francois Hollande vowed today that France would “never yield” to terror in an emotional tribute to three police officers shot dead...
Pope Francis urges ‘pursuit of truth’ and human rights at start of Asia tour
Pope Francis urged respect for human rights as he began a two-nation Asia tour in windswept Sri Lanka Tuesday, bearing a message of peace and reconciliation...
Japan’s emergency number inundated with mundane requests
A quarter of all urgent calls to Japanese police last year were not emergencies, including one in which the caller asked for help removing an insect from...
German anti-Islamist rally swells after attacks in France
A record 25,000 anti-Islamist protesters marched through the east German city of Dresden on Monday, many holding banners with anti-immigrant slogans, and...
Paris attacker’s girlfriend spotted on video at Istanbul Airport
New video footage has emerged which is thought to show the girlfriend of the gunman who killed four shoppers in a hostage stand-off in Paris. The CCTV...
British Ebola nurse ‘no longer critical and showing signs of improvement’
Doctors have said the British nurse who caught Ebola in Sierra Leone is no longer critically ill and is showing signs of improvement. Pauline Cafferkey...
Haiti’s president, lawmakers reach 11th-hour deal
Haiti’s President Michel Martelly and national lawmakers struck a last-minute deal late Sunday to hold new elections by late this year, defusing...
Liberté, égalité, fraternité: World leaders join arms with throngs of Parisians
Dozens of world leaders including Muslim and Jewish statesmen joined hundreds of thousands of French citizens marching in Paris amid high security in an...
Hayat Boumeddiene ‘likely in Syria’ as IS release Coulibaly video
A woman hunted by French police as a suspect in the attacks on a satirical paper and Jewish supermarket in Paris left France several day before the killings...
Arson attack on Hamburg newspaper that printed Charlie Hebdo cartoons
A German newspaper in the northern port city of Hamburg that reprinted cartoons from the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo was the target of an arson...
#CharlieHebdo: World leaders join Paris march; Canada rallies in support
France vowed to combat terrorism with “a cry for freedom” in a giant rally for unity Sunday after three days of bloodshed that horrified the...
Pings: Signs of black boxes heard near where AirAsia jet crashed
Three Indonesian ships detected the signals from the two missing black boxes not far from where the plane’s tail section was recovered.
German anti-Islamic rallies may grow on terror fears
Germany’s new anti-Islamic PEGIDA movement plans to rally again on Monday, when analysts expect its ranks to swell by thousands following the Paris...
AirAsia plane tail lifted from sea as divers resume search
The tail of crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501 has been lifted out of the Java Sea off Borneo, two weeks after the Airbus A320 crashed into the Java Sea, killing...
European leaders, Canada’s Blaney to show solidarity at Paris attacks rally Sunday
European leaders will make an extraordinary show of support for France by joining a mass rally in Paris Sunday, amid a wave of solidarity following the...
Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza sentenced to life in U.S. prison
The radical London cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was sentenced to life in a U.S. prison on Friday for his conviction on terrorism-related charges, including...
Paris gunmen take woman hostage, say they ‘want to die as martyrs’
Helicopters, with marksmen on-board, hovered over an industrial building Friday near Charles de Gaulle airport outside Paris, as police closed in on two...
North Korea ‘developing missile-launching submarine’
Recent satellite images offer fresh evidence of North Korea developing a marine-based missile system that would give the nuclear-armed state a survivable...
U.S. asks Saudis to cancel 1,000-lash sentence for liberal activist
The United States asked Saudi Arabia on Thursday to cancel a sentence of 1,000 lashes given to a liberal activist.
Sony hackers have left a clear trail to North Korea, claims FBI chief
The hackers behind the cyberattack on Sony “got sloppy” and left a trail which leads back to North Korea, the FBI has revealed. Amid persistent...
Paris, Montreal vigils held for Charlie Hebdo attack victims in global tributes
A minute’s silence was been held across France on Thursday to remember the victims of the attack at the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. At...
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