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JAKARTA, Indonesia—An Indonesian court has sentenced an American businessman to five months in jail for marching into a mosque during Islamic prayers and ripping cables from the loud speakers. Gregory Lloyd Luke was found guilty […] […]

AMSTERDAM—Iranians convicted for same-sex activities are on death row and awaiting hanging, including several who were minors when arrested, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. A report by the nonprofit organization documented cases of arbitrary arrests, […] […]

TEHRAN, Iran—Two suicide bombers blew themselves up near a mosque in southeastern Iran on Wednesday, killing at least 38 people at a Shiite mourning ceremony, state media reported. The attack took place outside the Imam […] […]

For a moment WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange could almost sniff the fresh air of freedom from a crowded London courtroom. But after a British judge granted him bail on Tuesday, the Houdini of cyberspace was […] […]

SWEDISH prosecutors will appear at London’s High Court on Thursday to fight a decision to grant bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The court date means Assange will remain in London’s Wandsworth prison for a […] […]

A 57-year-old man, who reportedly liked dressing up as a town sheriff, shot and killed four people today in northeastern Spain, police and local media said. Armed with either a rifle or shotgun, according to […] […]

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has declared from his London cell that his convictions have not been shaken by his incarceration. And he has accused global giants Visa, MasterCard and PayPal of being “instruments of US […] […]

THE Stockholm suicide bomber who killed himself and injured two others named his son after al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden. UK-educated Islamist Taimour Abdulwahab al Abdaly’s devotion to the terror leader also caused him […] […]

INDONESIAN prosecutors have promised a swift trial of radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir after police charged him with inciting others to commit terrorist acts, a crime carrying the death penalty. “We want to try him […] […]

For the family of Ephraim Brown, it was a day of anguish and incomprehension that apparently no one will ever be brought to justice for snuffing out the life of the 11-year-old boy. His mother, […] […]