New York police say they are investigating the nature of white powder found in letters sent to the foreign missions of France, Austria and Uzbekistan in the city. About 40 people have been decontaminated as a precaution.
US law enforcement agencies said on Thursday they had arrested more than 300 people in 19 states over the past two days in the largest ever crackdown on a Mexican drug cartel operating in the United States.
US law enforcement agencies have arrested more than 300 people in 19 states over the past two days in the largest-ever crackdown on a Mexican drug cartel operating in the United States.
Clashes broke out again late Tuesday when demonstrators protesting poor housing conditions threw rocks at police in the Algerian capital of Algiers in a second day of violence.
Egyptian authorities have detained 20 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's largest and most organised opposition group, which is allowed to operate openly despite an official ban.
Gunmen attacked at least two police offices in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Thursday, city officials said. Earlier, a suicide car bomb targeted a police station in the northwestern town of Kohat.
Former Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa, who was forced to resign after appearing drunk at a G7 news conference earlier this year, was found dead in his Tokyo home. The cause of his death has not yet been determined.
Israeli police fired stun grenades to disperse some 150 Palestinians who hurled stones at Jews visiting a sensitive religious site in the Old City before the start of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
