A leading Islamic organization has called on the United Nations to make "contempt of religions" illegal and urged the West to protect Muslim communities following the attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Indonesian investigators may release some of their initial findings next week into last month's crash of an AirAsia passenger jet that killed 162 people, but the full preliminary report will not be made public, a government official said on Wednesday.
United States President Barack Obama asked lawmakers on Tuesday to grant him more powers to defeat Islamic State extremists in Iraq and Syria.
If US President Barack Obama wanted to show Republicans on Tuesday that he hopes to work with them this year, his aggressive body language and off-the-cuff gibes may have spoken louder than his words.
Cuba and the highest-level US delegation to visit in 35 years began talks on Wednesday aimed at restoring diplomatic ties and eventually normalizing relations between two adversaries who have been locked in Cold War-era hostilities.
A Palestinian man stabbed passengers, wounding at least 12 people on a bus in central Tel Aviv before he was chased down, shot and arrested, Israeli police said on Wednesday, describing the assault as a "terror attack".
Boko Haram has claimed a massive attack feared to be the worst in its six-year insurgency, as talks began for a regional response to the militants and fears grew of further violence.
Yemen's Houthi fighters took up guard at President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's home on Wednesday but said they had not toppled him, after two days of fighting that have put the Shiite group in all but total control of the capital.
Australia raised the threat level of a terrorist attack against law enforcement officers to "high" on Tuesday, federal police said.
Activists from the Republic of Korea launched anti-Pyongyang leaflets on Monday night, ignoring calls for restraint.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea sought on Tuesday to discredit a man who claims to have been a prisoner in the DPRK who recently admitted inaccuracies in parts of a book about alleged abuses in the country of his birth.
The US Congress and President Barack Obama are on a fast track toward confrontation over sanctions on Iran.
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