The president of the autonomous region of south Sudan was sworn in on Friday, after being declared winner last month in the country's first competitive elections in more than two decades, as Darfur rebels said they have killed 200 in clashes with army.
Hezbollah mobilized thousands of fighters in southern Lebanon on Friday in response to week-long Israeli defense exercises due to kick off on Sunday, an official from the Shiite armed group said.
A new agreement by five African states on Nile water sharing has been a wake-up call for Egypt, which has long considered the river its own, analysts say.
Lawmakers in Australia's most populous state voted against banning the burka Thursday, with one accusing the Christian MP who moved the bill of stigmatizing Muslims, as city authorities in Brussels banned a protest against a ban against wearing the full-face Islamic veil in public.
The Air Force demolished a tunnel in northern Gaza early on Friday morning. The tunnel, built one kilometer from the Gaza security fence, was to be used by terrorists to infiltrate southern Israel.
Italian Member of European Parliament Gabriele Albertini, a senior foreign relations official, has stepped out of a delegation to Israel, calling the delegations planned trip an “anti-Israel propaganda mission.â€
This past week, just a few months prior to the anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy, the Planning Commission of lower Manhattan has approved the construction of a $100 million mosque near the site of Ground Zero.
French Muslims celebrate a milestone on Thursday when building work begins on a mega-mosque in Marseille, the nation's biggest and a potent symbol of Islam's place in modern France.
Pakistan has blocked the popular video sharing website YouTube indefinitely in a bid to contain "blasphemous" material, officials said on Thursday.
The irony of the new Iran uranium deal.