An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced nine extremists to death over charges of embracing extremist ideologies, targeting security forces and associating with the Islamic State (IS) militant group, official MENA news agency reported.
An Egyptian court on Thursday acquitted a police officer of torturing a young Islamist man to death when investigating a church blast case in 2011, a few days before the turmoil that toppled former leader Hosni Mubarak, state-run Ahram news website reported.
Illegal immigrants arrested during a joint operation will be deported to their home countries, a government official said on Sunday.
British Queen Elizabeth II and royal family members attended a Service of Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey Sunday morning, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Victory in Europe Day.
A military court in Egypt's Suez province sentenced on Thursday 15 supporters of the currently-blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood group to 25 years in prison and two others to 10 years over inciting violence in late 2013, a few months after the ouster of former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in mid-2013, official MENA news agency reported.
A total of 190 Taliban militants have been killed over the past 13 days of heavy fighting in Kunduz province with Kunduz city as its capital, 250 km north of Kabul, while 23 others laid down arms and surrendered on Wednesday, provincial governor Mohammad Omar Safi said.
Thousands of people marched in Baltimore, the largest city of U.S. State of Maryland as well as New York City on Wednesday over death of Freddie Gray, demanding justice and protesting overuse of police force.
Egyptian courts handed on Wednesday 126 citizens various sentences, acquitted 13 and released 68 over violence and terrorism charges.
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An Egyptian Court on Tuesday sentenced former Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to 20 years in prison over ordering the arrest and torture of protesters in 2012.
China is considering regulating seed industries involved in business with foreign seed enterprises to safeguard its sovereignty over seed resources.
Britain's Labor Party leader Ed Miliband on Thursday urged Prime Minister David Cameron to join him in a one-to-one debate.
Despite a petulant and cynical Washington, the three leading European powers decided to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) headquartered in Beijing on Tuesday.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls expressed on Monday regret over U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry' s comments on possible negotiations with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to end years-long bloodshed in the Arab country.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday dismissed rumors of his poor health at a meeting with Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev here in St. Petersburg, saying "life would be boring without gossip."
A park security guard in a township in southwest China's Sichuan Province got a shock on Thursday morning when he played back overnight CCTV footage and saw a special guest -- a wild panda.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet with his Russian and Iranian counterparts in Switzerland next week over the situation in eastern Ukraine and nuclear talks with Tehran, the State Department said on Thursday.
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