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Dozens of supporters of Israeli conscientious objector Natan Blanc demonstrated outside military headquarters on Tuesday.


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Indian Social Action Forum said today that the government has frozen its bank account as part of a crackdown on rights groups that receive foreign funding and criticise government policies.

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Dozens of Indian guest workers are suing US marine and fabrication company Signal International, alleging that it financially exploited them and forced them to live in squalid conditions.

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Around 10,000 Chilean students and workers marched through Valparaiso on Tuesday to demand wide-ranging expansion of free education.


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Egypt President Mohammed Morsi has signed a new tax law that cuts the amount paid by poorer Egyptians but did nothing to raise taxes for the rich elite.


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Italy's recession has left millions of people unable to afford to heat their homes adequately or eat properly, the country's national statistics institute warned today.


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Six Egyptian policemen and a border guard kidnapped in the Sinai Peninsula last week were freed by their captors today.


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Papuan miners pledged today to continue blockading the tragedy-hit Grasberg mine until the end of the month.


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Nuclear reactor to stay shut

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North Korea released 16 Chinese fishermen and their boat today after the seizure had been the subject of diplomatic exchanges between the two governments.


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US computer giant Apple avoids paying billions of dollars in US income taxes, a Senate investigation declared on Monday.


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Thousands of people marched through the streets of Manhattan on Monday to protest against the killing of gay man Mark Carson in Greenwich Village on Saturday.


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A monstrous tornado at least half a mile wide roared through Oklahoma City's suburbs on Monday, flattening entire neighbourhoods and destroying a primary school.


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Police arrested four people during a second day of unrest in the Stockholm suburb of Husby.


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Indonesian rescuers recovered another four bodies from a collapsed underground room at a giant US-owned gold and copper mine bringing the confirmed death toll to 21, mine officials said today.

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Philippines officials said today that they had protested to China over the presence of a warship, two surveillance vessels and fishing boats off a shoal occupied by its army in the disputed Spratly...

Guatemala's highest court overturned a genocide conviction against former dictator Efrain Rios Montt on Monday.


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Associated Press (AP) chief executive Gary Pruitt warned on Sunday that the government's seizure of his reporters' phone records had already had a damaging effect.


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Thousands of workers employed by Dubai's largest construction company Arabtec stayed out on strike for a third day to back wage demands today.


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Young people angered by the police shooting of an elderly man hurled rocks at officers and set cars and buildings on fire in the Swedish capital Stockholm today.


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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today that he had agreed with his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang to settle a long-running border row, pledging his commitment to "peace and tranquility.
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A string of car bombs and shootings killed at least 57 people in Shi'ite and Sunni areas today.


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A suicide bomber struck a provincial council headquarters in northern Afghanistan today, killing the council chief and at least 13 others.


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Dozens of journalists rallied outside Ukraine's Interior Ministry in Kiev today, accusing police of standing by while two journalists covering an opposition rally were beaten.


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Dozens of Egyptian armoured vehicles crossed into Sinai today, beefing up the security presence five days after six policemen and a border guard were kidnapped.


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