SIRTE, Libya – Libyan leader Moamer Gathafi warned on Sunday that the partition of Sudan would be a “contagious disease” that could spread to other African countries.

LONDON (AP) British police arrested eight people Saturday in the central city of Leicester as far-right, anti-Islamist protesters clashed with riot officers and hurled bricks and smoke bombs, officials said.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Three Palestinian children were wounded Friday in the Silwan suburb of Jerusalem when a Jewish settler deliberately ran then over.

A rocket-propelled grenade has been fired at a motorcade of British diplomats in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. Britain’s foreign ministry said a staff member suffered minor injuries and two bystanders were wounded in the attack

Faisal Shahzad, the man convicted of attempting a car-bomb attack in New York’s Times Square, has been sentenced to life in prison. He received several mandatory life sentences in a Manhattan federal court on Tuesday.

DUBAI: Newly published documents to mark the 37th anniversary of the 1973 October war, revealed deep pessimism in the Israeli leadership at the very start of the hostilities with Egypt and Syria, an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday.

RAMALLAH: Israeli settlers torched a mosque in a Palestinian village in the West Bank on Monday, scrawling “revenge” on a wall in Hebrew and charring copies of the Muslim holy book in a blaze that threatened to stoke new tensions over deadlocked Mideast peacemaking.

AMSTERDAM: The hate speech trial of Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders, set to become a shadow partner of the next coalition government, opened in Amsterdam on Monday.

Two Israeli soldiers have been convicted of using a Palestinian child as a human shield during Tel Aviv’s onslaught against the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military said on Sunday that the soldiers were responsible for the offenses during the December 2008-January 2009 conflict.

The US military is reportedly providing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with drones to launch more attacks in Pakistan as its bombing hits record high in September.