Two of the top candidates running to become Egypt’s first post-revolution president have squared off in the Arab world’s first televised presidential debate.

Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby warned on Tuesday rising violence in Syria could tip the strife-torn country into civil war, and expressed support for the peace plan of U.N.-Arab League Special Envoy Kofi Annan.

Interpol has issued an international ‘Red Notice’ alert for Iraq’s fugitive Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi on suspicion of “guiding and financing terrorist attacks”.

The Interior Minister of Germany’s western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) has blamed a far-right group that displayed lampooning cartoons of Prophet Mohammed (peace and blessing be upon him) outside mosques for a recent cycle of violence in the European country.

Five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks have been formally charged with crimes including murder and terrorism in a chaotic marathon hearing.

Clashes have erupted between assailants and supporters of Egypt’s Islamist political parties who had gathered outside the Defense Ministry in Cairo, leaving 11 people dead and nearly 50 wounded, security and hospital officials said.

American Muslims grew in number over the past decade, outnumbering Jews for the first time in most of the Midwest and part of the South, while most mainline churches lost adherents, according to a census of American religions released on Tuesday.

European governments are discriminating against their Muslim citizens, denying them the right to wear their hijab and build their worship places, an international human rights group said.

Syrian troops have killed dozens of civilians in the city of Hama, activists have said, as UN military observers toured protest centres near the capital Damascus, and both Brussels and Washington imposed new sanctions.

Some 100 child Quran memorizers will be honored in a ceremony to be organized by Al-Urman Charity Association on April 30 at Al-Azhar Islamic Center.