WASHINGTON—Dozens of governments around the world, most notably in majority-Muslim nations, are turning to anti-blasphemy laws to aggressively punish alleged transgressions, especially against Islam. And while in the past blasphemy charges were most often brought against people for something they said in public, these days governments are turning their attention to what people say and […]
BANGKOK— The flight data recorder of AirAsia Flight 8501 has been retrieved from the Java Sea. Authorities said the cockpit voice recorder from the passenger jet that crashed on December 28 has also been located. Navy divers on Monday brought to the surface the flight data recorder of the Indonesia AirAsia flight, two weeks after […]
The prime suspects in the Charlie Hebdo attack earlier this week, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, died in a barrage of bullets after an eight hour standoff in the Paris suburb of Dammartin-en-Goelle on Friday according to French authorities. As the two brothers exited the warehouse northeast of Paris and opened fire with high-powered assault […]
Twelve people in Paris are dead and an additional eight are injured after two hooded, heavily-armed men burst into the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and opened fire there. Although investigators do not know the origin of the attackers,during the attack, it is reported that they hollered “God is great!” in Arabic, […]