An Egyptian Health Ministry official said that 149 people have been killed and another 874 were injured in clashes between security forces and supporters of the ousted president Mohammed Morsi, the Associated Press reported. The Egyptian police swept in early Wednesday morning with armored vehicles and bulldowers in an effort to clear two encampments of pro-Morsi supporters. 25 were reported killed in Minya province south of the capital and one each in the cities of Alexandria, Assiut and Ban Suef.
Yemeni authorities reportedly foiled an al Qaeda plot go capture oil and gas facilities and seize two key southern plots earlier this week, a spokesman for the prime minister said
Military Judge Army Col. Denise Lind acquitted Private First Class Bradley Manning of aiding the enemy, the most serious charge the Army intelligence analyst faced, in a case where he stood trial for covertly leaking a massive trove of government documents and cables to WikiLeaks, Politico reported. Manning, however, was convicted on 19 other charges, in connection with the largest breach of classified material in U.S. history
U.N. Secretary-General B Ki-Moon raised the death toll in Syria's civil war surpassing 100,000 up from nearly 93,000 just over a month ago. Ban called on the Syrian government and opposition to halt the violence in the 2 ½ civil war, saying it is "imperative to have a peace conference in Geneva as soon as possible."
Federal prosecutors in New York charged Mokhtar Belmokhtar, an al-Qaeda Islamist currently at large, with crimes related to an attack on a gas facility in Algeria earlier this year that left 37 hostages dead.
A ship from Cuba to North Korea, detained by Panama after it was found to hold undeclared military cargo, contained the fuselages of two Soviet-era fighter planes. The planes and other military items were hidden under bags of sugar and were being sent to North Korea for repairs.
A Virginia grand jury indicted six Colombians for the kidnapping and murder of a Drug Enforcement agent in Colombia during an attempted robbery in June, federal authorities. Special Agent James "Terry" Watson died after being stabbed in a taxi in the country's capital Bogota
The military judge Colonel Denise Lind who is overseeing the court-martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning denied defense motions seeking to throw out two charges against him, including the most serious one of aiding the enemy. That charge would carry a maximum penalty of life in prison. Colonel Lind said the government had met the burden to present evidence that the crimes had been committed.
Panama detained a North a North Korean-flagged ship headed to the Panama Canal from Cuba and said Tuesday it was carrying suspected missile equipment hidden under tons of brown sugar, in which the ship's captain tried to commit suicide.
Among the three nations that have offered National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden political asylum, the Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the story, said that Venezuela is the "obvious choice," but he added that figuring out how to get Snowden from Moscow into Caracas could still take weeks.
A juveniles' court in New Dehli is ready hand down the first verdict next week concerning the gang-rape of a physiotherapy student, which sparked mass protests throughout the capital in recent months, the BBC reported. The court has been hearing the case of one of six suspects, who was 17 at the time of the crime, and was soon arrested after the brutal assault of the woman on a moving bus on December 16.
Adli Mansour, the chief justice of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court, was sworn in on Thursday, as the nation's interim president, taking over hours after the military removed Mohammed Morsi, the Associated Press reported. According to the military decree, Mansour will serve as Egypt's interim leader until a new president is elected, but a date for that vote has yet been set.
The deadline set by the Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi to relinquish power passed on Wednesday afternoon with little sign of a resolution to the standoff, as both sides vow to fight to the death.
Thousands of supporters and opponents of Egypt's Islamist president Muhammad Morsi held rival sit-ins in separate parts of Cairo Saturday on the eve of opposition-led mass protests aimed at forcing him from power.
The official death toll rose to 35 after knife attacks on Chinese authorities in a far-western region which has seen frequent clashes between China's Muslim minority Uyghurs and the ethnic Han majority.
Initial reports said that 27 people were killed on Wednesday in the Xinjang region, with state-run media saying that the assailants were wielding knives, launching an early-morning attack targeting police stations, a government building and a construction site, seen as symbols of Han authority and influx in the region.
Even after Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff called an emergency Cabinet meeting in response to her country's growing protests throughout the country, she remained 'stoically silent.' The anti-government protests reportedly range in scope, denouncing everything from poor public services to the billions of dollars spent preparing for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, both held in the country. Demonstrators were planned for mobilizations in 10 cities on Saturday.
An Israeli security guard shot and killed a fellow Israeli man in Jerusalem, beside the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites, Reuters reported. The site was immediately shut to visitors following the shooting.
The U.S. will meet the Taliban in Doha, Qatar for talks aimed at achieving peace in Afghanistan where the United States has battled the insurgents for 12 years, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. The officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, also said the Taliban would issue a statement on Tuesday opposing the use of Afghan soil for attacks on other countries, and that they support an Afghan soil for attacks on other countries and that they support an Afghan peace process.
Turkey's prime minster issued a "final warning" to protesters on Thursday, demanding that they end their occupation of a park next to Istanbul's landmark Taksim Square. Prime Minister Erdogan also rejected a condemnation by the European Parliament over the his government's reportedly excessive us of force by riot police against demonstrators.
Indian officials said an American tourist was gang -raped by a group of men in a hill resort in the northern part of the country. The woman was picked up by three men in a truck on Monday night while hitchhiking back to her guest house in Manali, a town in Himachal Pradesh state, police said. She had been visiting friends, and reportedly was unable to find a taxi cab home.
