Nine months after a popular uprising that ended decades of authoritarian rule, Tunisians have begun to vote for new leaders who will write the rules of the country’s new political system.
Reflecting growing religious tensions in the south-east Asian nation, hundreds of Malaysian Muslims rallied on Saturday, October 22, in a suburb outside the capital to denounce alleged attempts by the Methodist church to evangelize Muslims, Reuters reported.
At least 13 Afghan civilians have been injured after a US-led airstrike targeting suspected Taliban militants hit a house in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Kunar.
Muammar Gaddafi has been killed after National Transitional Council fighters overran loyalist defences in Sirte, the toppled Libyan leader’s hometown and final stronghold.
HORMOZGAN- Shiite khateeb of Bandar-e-Lengeh, southern Iran, criticized seizure of Sunnis’ properties and halt of their developmental projects by official departments.
Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council says its fighters have captured the town of Bani Walid, one of two last remaining strongholds of deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Mapping out growth strategies for the booming industry, Islamic finance officials will meet in Malaysia next week to debate the industry’s future path.
At least five people have been killed and four others injured in a non-UN-sanctioned US drone attack on Pakistan’s northwestern region of South Waziristan, Press TV reports.
A United Nations report has found “compelling evidence” that Afghan intelligence officials at five detention centres “systematically tortured detainees for the purpose of obtaining confessions and information”.
Libya’s new rulers have discovered two mass graves containing the bodies of as many as 900 people who had “died not long ago,” reporters on the scene said on Wednesday.