Courts in China's ethnically-divided Xinjiang region, home to mainly Muslim Uighurs, have jailed 39 people for offences including spreading "terrorist videos", state media said Wednesday as Beijing tightens security after several deadly attacks.
Brutal killing of a young man dressed as Santa Claus in Tajikistan largely went unnoticed by western media. A group of some 30 people shouted "infidel" as they repeatedly stabbed the poor man to death.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was under fire Sunday from religious lawmakers following a report that his son was dating a non-Jewish woman, media said.
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has expressed concern about instability in neighbouring South Sudan and other volatile states in the region, official media reported Sunday.
South Africa's Nelson Mandela remains "quite ill" and is unable to speak, using facial expressions to communicate as he receives intensive medical care at home, his former wife told Sunday media.
Clearly there are double standards between the official Iranian stance and the Iranian stance echoed in the Media towards the Ukrainian Crisis. PhD student in Poltical Sciences at University of Saint Joseph
Negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program is to resume in February, German media quoted European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton as saying Monday.
TOKYO, Jan 31, 2015 (AFP) - Japan's deputy foreign minister has said negotiations with the Islamic State group threatening to execute a Jordanian pilot and a Japanese journalist have become "deadlocked", local media reported Saturday.
Amid the array of sexual harassment charges leveled against MoS External Affairs MJ Akbar, the government is weighing its options, IE reports quoting sources. Till now seven journalists have accused Akbar of sexual misconduct when he was the editor of various media organizations.