The speaker of Somalia's parliament Saturday asked neighboring countries to deploy troops within 24 hours to help the embattled government fight rising attacks by hard line Islamist rebels following the killing of high-profile Somali officials Friday.
VIENNA - Austrian police will probe allegations linking Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the 1989 murder of a Kurdish opposition leader in Vienna, the foreign minister has said.
US President Barack Obama has warned Iran the "world is watching" its actions, and stated the United States stood with those seeking "peaceful" justice following the election.
KABUL, Several armed militants entered the compound of Kandahar University in south Afghanistan Friday and after beheading a student took away another.
Baghdad: Iraq's prime minister said the withdrawal of US troops from urban areas by the end of this month will be a "big victory" for the nation.
France could bar Muslim women from wearing full veils in public, a government minister said yesterday as parliament took action over concerns about an increase in women who are wearing the niqab and burka in big cities.
EU and US leaders, as well as Amnesty International, on Friday condemned Iran's threat of crackdown on reformist protesters
Iran’s Supreme Leader dramatically raised the stakes in his country’s political crisis today by demanding an end to the massive street demonstrations and warning of a violent crackdown if they continued. He also accused "treacherous" Britain of leading a western conspiracy to destablise the Islamic Republic by fomenting the protests.
Update: The U.S. joined the U.N. Human Rights Council today for the first time. More than half of the 2009-2010 council members -- 25 out of 47 -- fail to meet basic democracy standards. Can the U.S. effect change? Can a majority be found to pass resolutions that hold the worst abusers accountable for violations? Our recent blog postings below on the failed Sri Lanka session suggest the answer is no. But yesterday's qualified victory regarding Sudan holds out some hope. See below for blog postings on Iran's blaming of "unchaste" women, UN Watch in the News, and more...
International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that the General Secretary of a fundamentalist Muslim party in Pakistan accused a Christian girl of blasphemy, taking her to the police who interrogated her for 16 hours.