The Liberal Party and the Christian Democratic Alliance agreed to form a government with the support of the anti-immigrant Freedom Party, creating the Netherlands' first minority Cabinet since World War II.
Tajik authorities announced on January 16, that 99 purported Hizb ut-Tahrir members were arrested last year. Many were sentenced to lengthy jail terms for "extremist activities." Experts say that despite crackdowns on Hizb ut-Tahrir by governments across the region, the number of the group's members and sympathizers has been on the rise in recent years.
FRANKFURT - Before Abi left her parents' house in northern Germany last year, she asked her father, "Daddy, what can I bring you from my journey?" He looked up from his book and answered, "Some perfumed oil." "Will do," she said, hugging him goodbye.
Five Taliban have been struck off a U.N. Security Council list of people subject to sanctions -- a move sought by Kabul to ease reconciliation talks with insurgents, a U.N. diplomat said on Friday.
The move followed a review of the list of Taliban and al-Qaeda members maintained by a Security Council committee. Two of the five were delisted because they were dead, the diplomat said.
SRINAGAR: Troops enforced a curfew in major towns in Indian-administered Kashmir on Saturday as a fourth person died from injuries suffered when soldiers opened fire to quell demonstrators the previous day.
Three people were killed Friday in two separate incidents when security forces opened fire to disperse angry anti-India protesters in the northern towns of Sopore and Patan.
