French police say three Kurdish activists, including a founding member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party militant group, have been shot to death in Paris in what the French interior minister has termed an "assassination."
A massive explosion shook the Hurriyah neighborhood of Baghdad today when a car filled with explosives blew up killing seven people and injuring another 17.
The United States says Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's plan for a national reconciliation conference is "detached from reality" and is an attempt to "cling to power."
The five men accused of the brutal rape and assault of the unidentified Indian girl in New Delhi were formally charged in a New Delhi court on Thursday with Gang Rape, Murder and Kidnapping and Conspiracy.