Turkey has begun work on two centers to process Syrian and other migrants after they return from Greece under a deal with the EU which comes into force next week, local officials and reports said Saturday.

As the migrant influx into Europe remains the biggest crisis facing the European Union, far-right parties and organizations across the continent are taking advantage to increase their profile.

Bangladesh’s high court on Monday rejected a petition by secular activists to scrap Islam’s status as the state religion.

Taliban insurgents fired a barrage of rockets at Afghanistan’s newly built parliament complex in Kabul on Monday, as top security officials including the intelligence chief prepared to address the assembly.

The eminent Iranian Sunni leader, Shaikh Mohammad-Ali Amini expressed his pleasure on the participation in the gathering of Sunnis of Zahedan.

At least 65 people have been killed and over 300 others injured in a suicide blast outside a public park in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, health ministry officials said.

Tributes were paid Saturday to a British Muslim shopkeeper killed in what police described as a “religiously prejudiced” attack, as a Muslim suspect remained in custody.

A suicide bomber has detonated his explosives belt at a football stadium south of the Iraqi capital, killing at least 29 people and injuring 60 others, the security head in Babel province has said.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was Thursday found guilty of genocide by UN war crimes judges and sentenced to 40 years in jail over the worst atrocities on European soil since World War II.

The United Nations condemned on Friday the “gruesome” killing of a wounded Palestinian by an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank, after a video of the death spread widely online.