Illegal north African immigrants protest over stagnated evacuation out of the southernmost Italian island of Lampedusa, March 31, 2011. Tensions between Italy and France were rising over the immigration emergency as more refugees coming from the southern island of Lampedusa tried to escape across the frontier and were pushed back by the French police. Tensions between Italy and France were rising over... 

A judge takes two children who admitted raping a toddler away from their families. It was an emotional scene as the children, ages 7 and 9, appeared in Shelby County Juvenile Monday afternoon. The judge had some strong words for the parents. Juvenile Court Judge Dan Michael says the boys admitted in court a month ago to raping a two-year-old girl in South Memphis. That happened in August. The boys... 

Ephrem Yohannes A 23-year-old immigrant African male from Ethiopia was charged for the rape and murder of a 27-year-old woman he allegedly attacked after the two stepped off a Gothenburg tram one evening in September. Elin Krantz and her alleged killer were riding the same tram to the Hisingen neighbourhood near Gothenburg in western Sweden. Shortly thereafter Krantz was raped and murdered in a wooded... 

A snapshot left at a so-called maternity house in California. The building inspectors and police officers walked into the small row of connected town houses here knowing something was amiss. Neighbors had complained about noise and a lot of pregnant women coming and going. And when they went into a kitchen they saw a row of clear bassinets holding several infants, with a woman acting as a nurse hovering... 

Mussa Ibrahim Libya accused NATO on Sunday of “terrorising” and killing its people as part of a global plot to humiliate and weaken the North African country. The government says Western-led air attacks have killed more than 100 civilians, a charge denied by the coalition which says it is protecting civilians from Gadaffi’s forces and targeting only military sites to enforce a no-fly... 

Jean-Marie Vianney Mudahinyuka, in the custody of Rwandan officers. A man going by the name of Thierry Rugamba reportedly immigrated to the United States in 2000, as a victim of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He settled in Bolingbrook, Illinois, where he worked at an African grocery. But all was not as it seemed with Thierry Rugamba, according to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. In 2004, he was identified... 

Crashed: Onlookers surround the wreckage of a U.S Air Force F-15E fighter jet after it crashed near the eastern city of Benghazi. Six Libyan villagers are recovering in hospital after being shot by American soldiers coming in to rescue the U.S. pilots whose plane crash-landed in a field. The helicopter strafed the ground as it landed in a field outside Benghazi beside the downed U.S. Air Force F-15E... 

An RAF Typhoon jet fighter takes off from Gioia del Colle air base near Bari, southern Italy, for a mission over Libya. All things considered, it was rather thoughtful of the Libyan rebels in Benghazi to shoot down their only fighter aircraft on Saturday, killing the poor unfortunate pilot. Otherwise, the British and French aircraft enforcing the UN-endorsed no-fly zone might have been obliged to do... 

Marine Le Pen, far-right leader of France's National Front Party, waits with the party's Louis Aliot outside an immigrant detention center during her visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa on March 14. Refugees fleeing the upheaval in North Africa are running into a different sort of political conflict in Europe. Since mid-January, more than 10,000 refugees from countries such as Tunisia... 

Police officers have killed three militants in Makhachkala, Dagestan. Police in Russia’s restive southern province of Dagestan say that seven policemen have been wounded by militants. Local police spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov said that several gunmen drove to a police precinct in the town of Kizilyurt late Monday. They sprayed the building with automatic gunfire and then detonated a car bomb,... 

Vladimir Zhirinovsky Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the colorful and flamboyant leader of Russia’s LDPR party, has called on Japanese to leave “the dangerous islands” and move to the unpopulated Russian territories, the newsru.com website reported on Sunday. Zhirinovsky, 64, also deputy speaker of the lower house, offered Russian government to start talks with Japan over Japanese nationals’... 

Medics help injured anti-government protesters in a mosque’s yard following clashes with police in Sanaa, Yemen, on Saturday. Yemeni police stormed a camp set up by thousands of protesters demanding the end of President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 32-year rule, killing one person and wounding hundreds early on Saturday, witnesses and medical sources said. Witnesses told Reuters hundreds of security... 

Sources close to the Hezbollah – which Israel and the United States regard as a terrorist group – have told G2Bulletin that the organization has devised military plans to occupy “Galilee,” or northern Israel, should the Jewish state attack Lebanon, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. A few weeks back, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a public... 

In one of the deadliest three days that officials can remember, more than 50 people were killed in Juárez. Among the 53 victims between Thursday and Saturday were a Juárez police officer, a municipal patrolman and a state investigator. According to Chihuahua state officials it was the most violent three-day period seen this year. State police reported that on average eight people are killed in Juárez... 

At least 92 people have been killed in clashes between South Sudanese troops and two rebel militias on Sunday and Monday. Fighting in Jonglei state left 14 rebels and seven soldiers dead on Monday, and the death toll from neighbouring Upper Nile state on Sunday has risen to 72, according to SPLA spokesman Philip Aguer. Auger said 65 rebels were killed in Sunday’s clashes between the Southern...