STOCKHOLM -Cars were torched and police faced stone-throwing youths in Stockholm's immigrant-dominated suburbs early Sunday, but the nightly riots that have raged for a week appeared to be easing, police said.A handful of cars were set ablaze in various suburbs. "When it comes to car fires, there ...

STOCKHOLM  - Stockholm police called in reinforcements from across Sweden on Friday to quell a possible sixth straight night of riots in the capital’s immigrant-dominated suburbs as Britain and the United States warned against travelling to the hotspots.Nearly a week of nightly riots has ...

YANGON Myanmar on Tuesday sentenced seven Muslims to prison terms ranging from two to 28 years in connection with religious violence in March that left dozens of people dead, a justice official said.The defendants, who were spared the death penalty, were accused of the murder of a Buddhist monk in ...

new delhiScores of Sikhs demonstrated in New Delhi on Monday against the acquittal of a senior Indian ruling party politician on murder charges in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.More than 200 turbaned Sikhs demonstrated, blocking the road near the parliament building and calling for the ...

YANGON  - A Muslim businessman, his wife and an employee have been sentenced to prison after an altercation at their gold shop led to anti-Muslim riots in which at least 43 people were killed in Myanmar last month.Shop owner Tun Tun Oo, his wife Myint Myint Aye and an employee, Nyi Nyi, were ...

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Sunday said that planned riots were made in Karachi.He said that there was worst law and order situation in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa as compare to Karachi.He said that quarrels between Sindhi and Mujahir had been made through ...

NEW DELHI -  In a major blow to the Narendra Modi government, the Gujarat High Court on Wednesday censured it for “inaction and negligence” during the 2002 post-Godhra riots, holding that this had resulted in an “anarchic” situation.Passing strictures against the state ...

KARACHI - Two minors sustained injuries while unidentified miscreants attacked a traffic police check post when the residents of Maripur area came to streets over unabated electricity loadshedding. The protests have been continued in different areas of Karachi. The areas where the riots broke out ...

NEW DELHI (Agencies) - A panel investigating the 2002 riots in the Indian state of Gujarat has criticised the 'partisan stance of Chief Minister Narendra Modi in handling the violence. But it also said the probe had not uncovered any evidence against Modi to 'justify further action under the law. ...

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Calm returned to the centre of Ugandas capital on Saturday after two days of riots that killed 14 people, including a policeman, and injured nearly 100. The violence that erupted on Thursday was triggered by land and power disputes between the government and leaders of Buganda ...

LAHORE - Bishop of Lahore Dr Alexander John Malik has demanded of the government to appoint a judge of the Lahore High Court for judicial inquiry into Gojra violence. Addressing a Press conference at Press Club on Sunday, he strongly condemned the Gojra incident, which resulted riots erupted in ...

URUMQI (Reuters/AFP) - At least 156 people have been killed in rioting in the capital of Chinas northwestern region of Xinjiang, with the government blaming exiled separatists for the Muslim areas worst case of unrest in years. Hundreds of rioters have been arrested, the official Xinhua news agency ...

AMRITSAR (AFP/Reuters) - Two protesters were killed in India on Monday as mobs went on the rampage after a guru was shot dead in fighting between rival Sikh communities in Austria, police said. The two men were killed in separate incidents when police opened fire to disperse angry crowds who ...

QUETTA - Eleven more people including a police constable were killed and property worth millions of rupees was ransacked as violent protests intensified across Balochistan against the killing of three Baloch leaders in Turbat while shutterdown was observed for second consecutive day in most towns ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - A cabinet minister in India's western state of Gujarat surrendered to police Friday over charges that she incited a mob during 2002 anti-Muslim riots that left at least 2,000 dead. Women and Child Welfare Minister Maya Kodnani is the highest-ranking Gujarat official to be arrested ...

PARIS (AFP) - A stark warning by state media Wednesday of possible mass unrest in China signalled deepening fears over the global recession, as Europe grappled with more job losses and an energy cutoff during a winter freeze. The economy of Asian powerhouse China might become so bad in the next few ...

MUMBAI (Agencies) - In a pre-dawn arrest, firebrand Indian politician Raj Thackeray was picked up by police and faced a litany of charges including inciting violence and will spend the night in a lock-up despite getting bail in one case sparking sporadic violence in Mumbai and parts of Maharashtra, ...