(CNN) — An 11-year-old Christian girl has been arrested and detained on charges of blasphemy for allegedly desecrating pages from the Quran in the Pakistan capital Islamabad. According to a statement released by the President’s...
(Reuters) – In a loping, crouching run, striking South African miners advance towards a line of police in helmets and flak-jackets who are pointing automatic rifles at them. The police open fire. In less...
In what appears to have been a coordinated action Thursday evening, Occupy protesters in Portland, Oregon and Oakland, California staged protests and have occupied the offices of Obama campaign headquarters in both locations. A...
Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) — Rising tensions at a South African platinum mine exploded Thursday in grisly violence as police opened fire on striking miners. Blood-stained bodies lay strewn about a field in a police...
Japanese police have arrested 14 pro-China activists who landed on disputed islands, reports say. The group had sailed from Hong Kong to the islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, followed...
ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) STORY: Chilean students clashed with police in downtown Santiago on Tuesday as they intensified demonstrations in demands of reforms in the education system they say is profit driven and...
Buildings and cars were torched overnight as youths and police clashed in the northern French city of Amiens, say officials and police. Sixteen police officers were injured in the clashes with up to 100...
(Reuters) – Civil unrest over fatal police shootings of two Hispanic men has divided the normally placid city best known as the home of Disneyland and renewed calls by Anaheim’s growing Latino community for...
MADRID — Spanish police have arrested five left-wing union activists for their alleged role in a “Robin Hood”-style looting of a supermarket made to highlight the plight of people suffering through the country’s recession,...
The Obama administration told law enforcement authorities to go easy on Occupy Wall Street protesters, even though they were violating local laws, according to documents obtained by watchdog group Judicial Watch. Emails from the...
