Japan is preparing to send 100 troops to Yonaguni, a remote island just south of the disputed Senkaku archipelago, where Tokyo accuses Beijing of drilling for natural gas.
Bolivian President Evo Morales retreated from the southern mining city of Oruro after protesters angered by rising food prices and shortages jeered him and set off dynamite.
Several thousand young Yemenis gathered in central Sana’a, calling for President Ali Abdallah Saleh to step down and follow the example of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.
Up to 2,000 marched in Algiers despite a ban on demonstrations in the city, and pushed back against police who tried to bar the march with a cordon of troops and armored vehicles.
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A clash between Arabs and Tukrmen left three dead in Kirkuk two days after a car bomb targeted a Kurdish militia in the city, while another car bomb killed Shi’ite pilgrims in Dujail.
Iraq operates secret prisons and routinely tortures prisoners to extract confessions that are used to convict them, Amnesty International says in a new report.
Islamist protesters put two churches to the torch in central Java, two days after three members of the Ahmadiyya minority sect were lynched for promoting “blasphemy.”
Militants in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province attacked a NATO supply truck transporting fuel for US-led forces in Afghanistan, one day after blowing up a gas pipeline.
Iran said that Egyptians have achieved a “great victory” in the ousting of Hosni Mubarak—as Iranian security forces rounded up opposition leaders who had called for a day of protest.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and handed over power to the army, Vice President Omar Suleiman announced in a surprise televised address.
Thousands of Egyptian protesters are facing down army troops and tanks at the parliament building and other government offices after Mubarak failed to accede to demands that he step down.
