TRCB News:International / General

A British court on Thursday jailed nine Islamists inspired by slain al-Qaeda lynchpin Anwar al-Awlaki for planning terror attacks on targets including the London Stock Exchange. The nine men, who are all Britons of Bangladeshi and

Amnesty International said Thursday that security forces in the Maldives attacked supporters of ex-president Mohamed Nasheed, failed to protect them from counterdemonstrators and detained five members of parliament. The rights group

Six months after Britain was struck by five nights of rioting, London police launched a major crackdown on streets gangs which politicians blamed for the country’s worst disorder for decades. London’s new police chief, installed in the job in the wake

Washington’s chief envoy to Afghanistan met Taliban leaders in Qatar as part of U.S. efforts to bring the insurgents to the negotiating table, a senior Afghan official said on Wednesday. The talks between the Taliban and Marc Grossman

Police said Wednesday a mob had stormed the Maldives national museum and smashed Buddhist statues, an act of vandalism which former president Mohamed Nasheed blamed on Islamic radicals. “A mob entered the museum yesterday (Tuesday).

The United States said Tuesday it was working with friends to discuss how to provide humanitarian aid to the Syrian people caught in the government crackdown and said it was not considering providing arms to Syrian opposition groups. “We

Russia’s U.N. Ambassador on Tuesday denounced as lies a report that he had threatened Qatar with annihilation during an argument with the Gulf state’s prime minister over a draft Security Council resolution on Syria that was vetoed by Moscow. “There

Members of France’s ruling UMP party stormed out of parliament in protest on Wednesday after an opposition legislator appeared to compare Interior Minister Claude Gueant to a Nazi for remarks he made that not all civilisations were equal . Serge

German police arrested two men in Berlin Tuesday accused of spying on opponents of the Syrian regime in raids involving some 70 officers, federal prosecutors said. The suspects were identified only as 47-year-old German-Lebanese citizen Mahmoud El A.

Mutinying police on the holiday islands of the Maldives took over the state broadcaster on Tuesday and broadcast an opposition-linked station’s calls for people to come on the streets to overthrow President Mohammed Nasheed, witnesses said.