Angry protesters rallied in Istanbul on Tuesday despite a heavy police presence, shouting threats following allegations a satirical magazine published a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).
The High Court in London rejected a legal challenge on Monday brought by a Palestinian rights group seeking to block the UK from supplying components for Israeli F-35 fighter jets.
A Ugandan member of parliament critical of President Yoweri Museveni was abducted over the weekend and apparently tortured before his release, a member of the law society said on Monday.
A press freedom NGO expressed concern on Monday over the detention of a Syrian Kurdish journalist who was arrested days earlier in Damascus by the new government's security forces.
Colombia's new justice minister told AFP on Thursday that some key drug extraditions to the United States "will be suspended," even if it worsens already frayed ties with Washington.
Vietnam has abolished the death penalty for eight crimes including espionage, graft and attempting to overthrow the government, state media said Wednesday.
India has deported without trial to Bangladesh hundreds of people, officials from both sides said, drawing condemnation from activists and lawyers who call the recent expulsions illegal and based on ethnic profiling.
Countries hosting Nicaraguan exiles should offer them stronger protection, a UN expert group urged Tuesday, after a critic of the government was murdered in neighbouring Costa Rica.
