This week Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto signed into law a landmark telecommunications bill designed to boost competition in Mexico’s phone and television industry.  This has led to the generalized perception that  the new law — which allows regulators to make dominant...

Turkish riot police using tear gas and water cannon battled protesters for control of Istanbul's Taksim Square on Tuesday night as demonstrators defied Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's demand they clear the area and end 10 days of demonstrations. Police fired volleys of tear gas canisters...

  Nick Griffin , the leader of the British National Party, has waded into controversy about the Syrian crisis by paying a "fact-finding visit" to Damascus as part of a delegation of far-right and nationalist European politicians. Griffin, the MEP for North-west England, used his...

 Damascus: Hussam Al-Khayat was martyred due to torture in the Air-force Intelligence branch in Damascus.   A 23 year old architecture student, his mother could not recognize his body or his face. He was martyred after   after 10 days of arrest...