Polls opened today in five regions in Kosovo, bringing some 100,000 voters back to the ballot box after authorities annulled results from the regions due to vote-rigging.Central Election Commission spokesman Fehmi Ajvazi says three regions will hold an entirely new vote and two others a partial vote after their results from the December 12 general […]

US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona has been shot in the head outside a grocery store in Tucson and six people have been killed in the shooting incident.On Saturday, up to 20 continuous shots were heard at the scene of the incident, where Giffords was greeting her constituents, AP reported.

Islam is considered a “threat” by millions of French and Germans, with the vast majority believing Muslims have “not integrated properly”, a devastating new poll reveals today.

Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Germans have failed to grasp how Muslim immigration has transformed their country and will have to come to terms with more mosques than churches throughout the countryside, according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily.

The number of Britons choosing to become Muslims has nearly doubled in the past decade, according to one of the most comprehensive attempts to estimate how many people have embraced Islam.

GAZA, (PIC)– Asia Convoy 1 head Feroz Mesberola said the convoy’s naval vessel carrying 20 tons of humanitarian aid valued at one million dollars docked at Port El Arish, Egypt Tuesday morning in its final stop for the aid to be unloaded onto trucks that will carry it to the Gaza Strip through Rafah.

An aid convoy carrying food and medical supplies for the besieged Palestinians, as part of an Asian aid mission, has arrived in the Gaza Strip. The Asia to Gaza Solidarity Caravan, (Asia 1) entered the coastal strip through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on Monday.

Now, for the first time, almost all universities across Turkey have abandoned the official prohibition on women wearing headscarves. The ban ended in a quiet and indirect way when the government issued a statement in September saying it would support any student expelled or disciplined for covering her head. This led the universities, one by […]

Angry Coptic Christians have clashed with police as they demanded more protection for Egypt’s Christians following a New Year’s Day church bombing that killed 21 of their brethren.

A new study concludes that the high rate of birth defects and cancer diagnoses in the Iraqi city of Fallujah is caused by weapons used by US and UK forces six years ago.The study, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, confirmed the reports that US and British forces used depleted […]