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.
The Pentagon has reduced the sentence of Ibrahim al-Qosi, the accused former al-Qaeda cook who pleaded guilty before a military tribunal, under terms of a secret plea deal.
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.
The City Council of Berkeley, Calif., is to vote this week on a resolution to invite Guantánamo Bay detainees who have been cleared of wrongdoing to resettle in the town.
