Germany has approved a law that authorizes the confiscation of personal identification (ID) cards from suspected Muslim terrorists for up to three years, which was twice as long as originally planned.

An international human rights watchdog group has condemned the recent ruling in Egypt that sentenced a student to three years imprisonment for expressing his atheist beliefs on Facebook.

An Israeli newspaper is gaining international attention after it published a photo of the recent unity march in Paris, but edited out prominent female world leaders from the photo, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The Yemen branch of the al Qaeda terror group has taken responsibility for the recent terror attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper headquarters in France that killed 12.

It was the first time that the leader of the Roman Catholic Church visited a predominantly Hindu nation after two decades. At the start of his week-long tour of Asia, Pope Francis told Catholic believers in Sri Lanka to pursue the truth if they want to end a quarter-century of injustice caused by a civil war.

In a new effort to curb terrorism, France announced this week that it had arrested 54 people for defending terrorism, either by making hateful comments or glorifying extremism.

"Mothers, give your children milk." This was how Pope Francis encouraged mothers to breastfeed their babies in public in a message he delivered during the baptism of 33 babies in the Sistine Chapel in Rome over the weekend. The Catholic Church leader poured holy water on the foreheads of 13 male and 20 female infants during the event.

The Nigerian government should move forward with its election despite increasing violent attacks from the Muslim extremist group Boko Haram, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday.

A region in China has approved a ban on its residents from wearing burqa in "an effort to curb growing extremism," Chinese state media announced this week.

Malaysia's crackdown on militants serving the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) appears to be tough enough to be felt by the extremist group as the latter reportedly issued a warning to prospective supporters not to use Malaysia as a transit point to Syria.

A week after the terrorist attacks on the office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, the British government has called for a new anti-terror law in cyberspace.