Putting more pressure on Israel to revive the stalled peace talks with Palestine, several European countries are reportedly considering recognizing Palestine as an independent state, following the step taken by Sweden which became the first major EU country to do so.

Two cars have exploded in seperate attacks in southwestern Baghdad’s Shia al-Ameen neighbourhood, killing seven people and injuring 21 others, a police source has said, as hospital officials confirmed the casualties.

An explosion has occured at the police headquarters in Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least one senior officer and wounding six others, officials have said.

Dozens of Jewish settlers on Wednesday stormed Al Aqsa Mosque compound to perform their Talmudic rituals under the protection of Israeli police which cordoned off worshippers after firing tear gas and stun grenades.

Two Egyptian policemen have been killed after a bomb exploded inside a train carriage north of Cairo, police officials say.

A top leader of Bangladesh’s main religious party, Jamaat-e-Islami, has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity committed during the country’s war of independence from Pakistan in 1971.

At least eleven Afghan policemen and army soldiers have been killed and more than 20 civilians wounded when a bomber set off his explosives-laden car near a police checkpoint in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Logar.

After its first closure in decades, Israel reopened Al-Aqsa Mosque compound ahead of Friday prayer, October 31, imposing restrictions on male Muslim worshippers under 50.

The new Afghan government and the United States have inked a long-delayed security agreement for the presence of the US soldiers in the country beyond 2014.

At least seven Afghan soldiers have died and many were injured after a suicide bomber targeted a bus carrying troops in the Afghan capital Kabul.