POLITICS

Strike by Israel could trigger World War III, Revolutionary Guards' Brig Gen Amir Ali Hajizadeh warns.

International election monitors gave a thumbs-down today to a parliamentary election in Belarus, Russia, saying it was neither free nor fair.

A 27 year-old created a Facebook page that mocked Geron Pastitsios Orthodox Christianity, enraging the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, tweets claim.

But heat still on government's Chief Whip as police report claims "he did swear at me".

Triple arrest prompts concerns that Vietnam is tightening grip on internet freedoms.

Police chairman says David Cameron should launch an immediate investigation because 'it is clear Mitchell has changed story'.

Imagine the scene for chief Tory whip Andrew Mitchell, after a hard day in politics, you are riding your bike happily out of the main Downing Street exit, and a policeman asks you to use a side entrance.

Move designed to help SMEs unable to secure credit from existing lenders.

China makes strategic investments in Afghan mineral resources, copper mines and oil exploration and extraction.

Former Chongqing police chief avoids death sentence because he shared vital clues about murder of British businessman Neil Heywood in November 2011.

Mitchell denies calling police officer a 'pleb' but has admitted using an expletive in anger.

The militias, feeling the heat of protesters, are vacating and leaving security to the government.

Free Syrian Army leaders claim they are moving closer to the action to take on Assad more effectively.

Pakistan's railway minister invites Taliban and al-Qaida to kill anti-Islam filmmaker while government dissociates itself from his comments.

General Mohammed Ali Jafari, head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, says his country will wipe out Israel.

The Apple Maps app in iOS 6 reportedly shows two chains of disputed islands, one each for Japan and China.

Swiss inquiry reveals that grenades pictured in newspapers were originally shipped to the UAE in 2004.

Protesters angry at militant group Ansar al-Sharia which is allegedly involved in the US consulate attack.

The Myanmar pro-democracy opposition leader urges for the release of three Pussy Riot members - but forgets the Rohingya

Iran militant group MEK, given refuge by Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war, removed from US State Department foreign terrorist organisation list.

The Republican hopeful, has 40 percent less Latin voters than Obama, appears suspiciously tanned on Spanish-language broadcast.

Suheir Atassi and ex-SNC chairman Burhan Ghalioun admit internal divisions in the Syrian opposition to President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Lazio councillors reveal use of public money to fund cars, holidays and semi-naked parties.

North Korea suspected of shipping weapons to support the Assad regime.

The militants opened fire on an IDF patrol stationed along the Israel-Egypt border but were killed.

President tells Egyptian magazine that rebels 'are not popular within society... they will not be victorious in the end'.

Protests over an anti-Muslim film turned violent Friday across Pakistan, with police firing tear gas and live ammunition at thousands of demonstrators who threw rocks and set fire to buildings.

Fresh protests continue In Pakistan; over an alleged anti-Islam film.Reports in confirm; clashes between police and protesters in the cities of Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi.

Washington hoping to disassociate itself from views expressed in Innocence of Muslims.