The 23 defendants on trial in Cairo for marching against the protest law were defiant at their court hearings last weekend.
Abu Qatada was cleared of terror charges last week and then told he would never be allowed back into Britain.
At least six people, including construction company bosses, have been arrested following the deaths in a building collapse in Chennai, southern India, last Saturday.
The Italian navy discovered 30 bodies in a fishing boat on Monday of this week.
Israel launched air strikes against 34 targets in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday of this week.
Thousands of workers across France protested today, Thursday, against Labour-type Socialist president Francois Hollande’s pact of austerity. The day of protests and strikes was called by the CGT union federation at the centre of the current wave of strikes in France.
South African platinum miners force bosses to pay up after five-month battle, writes Ken Olende
US secretary of state John Kerry met Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Sunday of last week to promise the unblocking of US military aid.
Thousands of striking workers marched together in Paris on Thursday of last week, bringing together two major disputes.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) has continued its spectacular advances in Western Iraq. It seized more Sunni Muslim majority towns near the capital Baghdad, as well as all the country’s western border crossings.
An attack on Karachi airport exposed how weak the deadly conflict has left Pakistan’s rulers, writes Geoff Brown
A court exonerated three journalists—Katerina Thoidou, Tasos Anastasiadis and me—from the socialist newspaper Workers’ Solidarity on Thursday of last week.
