An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced a policemen to five years in prison for killing protesters, in a retrial that overturned an initial death sentence in absentia, judicial sources said. Mohammed Ibrahim was convicted of shooting at de
A pro-democracy activist in Bahrain who was arrested last month after staging a lone protest on a main road is released from jail after paying a fine.
Decision by UK supreme court means Julian Assange can be sent back to Sweden, where he faces sexual-assault charges.
Qatar has ordered the arrest of five people involved in the management of a Doha shopping mall ravaged by a fire in which 19 people, mainly children, were killed, the state news agency reported. The report late Tuesday said that Qatar’s A
Russia said on Wednesday that the U.N. Security Council should not consider new measures to resolve the crisis in Syria at this point and signaled it would block any effort to authorize military intervention as China reiterated its opposition to military
Further violence is reported in Syria, a day after UN envoy Kofi Annan warned President Bashar al-Assad the country was at a "tipping point".
Turkey’s Islamist-rooted ruling party is preparing a bill to slash the time limit for abortions, party sources said, after the prime minister triggered outrage for likening abortion to murder. Abortion has been legal in Turkey since 1983,
Five detained in connection with fire which killed 19 people, mostly children; residents worry about lax safety codes.