At least one person was killed and three were missing Saturday after an explosion and fire on a Russian passenger jet, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported.
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1 dead after fire on Russian plane
China’s anti-pornography campaign shut down more than 60,000 pornographic websites this year, with police investigating almost 2,200 criminal cases, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Thursday.
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China shuts down 60,000 porn websites
Iran has hanged a man after finding him guilty of spying for the Israeli spy agency Mossad, a Tehran news agency says.
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‘Israeli spy’ hanged by Iranians
Iran on Tuesday hanged an Iranian convicted of spying for the country’s archenemy Israel, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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Iran Hangs Man Convicted of Spying
A Moroccan terror network with plans to attack “hot spots across the world” has been dismantled, a state-run Morocco news agency said Monday.
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Terror network ‘dismantled’ in Morocco
Jafar Panahi, a celebrated Iranian filmmaker who was arrested in February and accused of working on an “anti-regime” film, was sentenced to six years in prison on Saturday in Tehran, his lawyer told an Iranian news agency on Monday.
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The Lede: Iran Jails Filmmaker for 6 Years
Eleven people with ties to a terrorist group have been executed in Iran, a semi-official news agency in the country reported Monday.
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Iran: 11 with terrorist ties executed
Audio recording received by Swedish news agency TT minutes before the Stockholm bomb attack.
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Alleged bomber audio: "We’re for real"
A bomb explosion in a busy shopping section of Sweden’s capital today killed one man and injured two others. The attack is thought to be linked to Afghanistan, based on an email that a Swedish news agency received 10 minutes beforehand. The message…
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Stockholm Blasts Kill One
A Chinese man was rescued Sunday after spending 80 hours in a steel shaft that sunk 18 meters (59 feet) underwater, China’s official Xinhua news agency reported Monday.
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Man freed after 3 days in sunken shaft
Libyan authorities arrested 19 journalists and a media executive from the Libya Press news agency, the BBC reports. The agency is affiliated with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son, and a popular figure among reform-minded…
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Libya Arrests 19 Reform Journalists
Reports from Libya say the authorities have arrested 10 journalists employed by a news agency controlled by a son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
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‘Journalists arrested’ in Libya
Mexican authorities have recovered 10 bodies so far from a mass grave, the state-run news agency reported. The bodies may be those of 20 tourists who were kidnapped in September.
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Mass grave in Mexico may hold tourists
North Korean and South Korean military units exchanged gunfire near their border Friday, the South Korean Yonhap news agency reported.
Iran will begin to load fuel into the core of its first nuclear energy plant in the southern city of Bushehr on Tuesday, the state news agency reported.
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Iran injects fuel into first nuclear plant
