New York City police using pepper spray and batons violently confronted a crowd of demonstrators and journalists who had converged near barricades at the entrance to Wall Street on Wednesday night, as part of ongoing protests in the United States’ financial capital over wealth inequality and a host of other grievances.

Jewish extremists set alight a mosque overnight Sunday  in the Upper Galilee village of Tuba-Zanghariyye in the 1948-occupied Palestinian territories as graffiti with racist remarks were found on the walls of the holy site.

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the Israeli regime is becoming increasingly isolated following the recent popular uprisings in the Middle East.

Representatives of Syria’s six-month-old protest movement joined opposition parties in Turkey on Saturday to forge a united front against Bashar al-Assad’s regime after violence claimed at least 19 more lives.

United States President Barack Obama has called the killing of Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki a “major blow to al-Qaeda’s most active operational affiliate” but offered no apologies for the unprecedented manner in which he was killed.

Hamas said on Wednesday that ongoing Jewish settlement plans in the occupied Palestinian territories were a blow to parties bent on negotiating with Israel as more plans for settlements have unfolded after the PLO’s statehood request at the UN.

Fierce clashes have erupted in Yemen’s capital between troops loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and forces led by defected General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar.

Despite living in autonomous regions, thousands of Chinese Muslims are suffering under harsh educational systems imposed by the communist government to erode Qur’an and religious studies from schools and colleges.

Around 1,000 Palestinians gathered in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday to protest against U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech to the United Nations.

Two French women who continue to wear the full-face veil in defiance of a new law banning it in France have been fined.