The assassination of Egypt's top prosecutor Hesham Barakat in a car bomb on Monday is meant by extremists to intimidate the country's court system that is currently reviewing hundreds of cases and holding mass trials for self-proclaimed Islamists and members and loyalists of the now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group.
While terror attacks in three different parts of the world on Friday highlight the grave danger the world is facing now, some Western media's bias against Muslims is equally dangerous because such prejudice can only ferment hatred and polarization.
"The fight against Islamophobia which is ravaging Europe necessarily must pass by way of a legal definition and the creation of a legal arsenal at the European scale," pleaded Wednesday, in Strasbourg, at the Council of Europe (CoE), the association Organization Racism Islamophobia Watch (ORIW), raising an issue that stirs up polemics among the political ranks as much as within activist associations.
What has become known as the "culture wars" in Israel has sparked controversy and debate in Israeli society one month into the rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rightwing government.
All of Europe is looking on with eyes wide open as efforts to renegotiate Greek's massive debt to European creditors come to a head at the emergency summit. But the view from Italy is a little different.
Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday delivered a speech at the plenary session of the 19th Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum.
The killing of nine African-Americans in a "hate crime" shooting Wednesday night mirrors the U.S. government's inaction on rampant gun violence as well as the growing racial hatred in the country.
Despite being a Republican Party (GOP) front-runner for the 2016 U.S. presidential race, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush leads the pack by only a nose, and will have a tough fight ahead in his bid to grab the party nomination, U.S. experts said.
An aid project of the American Red Cross (ARC) in Haiti only provided unfinished houses with zinc roofs, and residents have to pay around 500 U.S dollars for a roof made of concrete.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is forging ahead with his plans to pass contentious security legislation through parliament albeit at a delayed date and in spite of the fact that the vast majority of the public oppose the implications the new bills will have on the nation's future security and the fact the bills themselves have been deemed unconstitutional by a plethora of legal experts on constitutional matters.
It is not yet clear whether a new U.S. plan to send hundreds of troops to Iraq to help defeating the Islamic State (IS) militant group was the right move to give a push to the Iraqi forces on the battleground, but some Iraqis here met President Barack Obama's new strategy with scepticism.
A growing tension between Islamic Hamas movement and Salafist groups overshadows the situation in the Gaza Strip, but analysts ruled out a comprehensive collision between the two sides.
After two days of meetings with a heavy agenda, leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized countries left the Bavarian Alps on Monday with few tangible results.
Leaders of the world's seven industrialized countries on Monday expressed concern about unilateral actions to change the status quo in the South China Sea.
The recent arrest of top managers of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) at U.S. request has not only exposed Uncle Sam's arrogance as "world police," but also set a bad precedent for international relations.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino here on Wednesday spouted again his ignorant metaphor -- likening China to Nazi Germany -- on the South China Sea issue and tried again to drag Japan and tow the United States towards further meddling in the region.
The 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq was a main reason for the expansion of the Islamic State (IS) militant group as well as the general chaotic situation in the Middle East region, said Egyptian political experts.
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