Pakistan

Police in Shanghai have arrested 10 Turkish nationals suspected of supplying fake passports to ethnic Uighurs from China's far-western region of Xinjiang who were described as terror suspects by state media.
   

SYDNEY - Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi are through to the second round of the Sydney ATP doubles tournament after beating Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan and Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan 6-4, 6-4 on Tuesday.

It went largely unnoticed in Turkey when the U.S. Congress on Dec. 19, 2014, approved the potential transfer to Taiwan and Mexico of six frigates being decommissioned by the American Navy. 

At least 57 people including women and children were killed when their bus crashed into an oil tanker, igniting a fierce blaze in southern Pakistan early Jan. 11, officials said.
      
It was the second crash involving major loss of life in Sindh province in less than three months.
      

The number of undocumented migrants who participated in a repatriation scheme run by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in cooperation with Greek authorities, rose by 6 percent in 2014 compared to the previous year, the Greek Police said on Thursday, releasing its annual figures.

12 dead as Paris newspaper office comes under attack

PARIS -- French President Francois Hollande says France is in a state of shock after the attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's office.

At least 12 people died in the attack, the latest reports from Paris said.

Syrians have overtaken Afghans as the largest refugee population aside from Palestinians, fleeing to more than 100 countries to escape war in their homeland, the United Nations said on Jan. 7.
   

About 51.2 million people have been displaced since World War II, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said on Jan. 6, noting the current figures for displaced people are the highest they have ever been.

In the last few years, almost every visiting foreign dignitary representing a country potentially a buyer of weapons systems has been taken to TUSA? Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) so that its proud war toys could be showcased: A drone and a basic trainer aircraft.

Bangladesh's war crimes court Dec. 30 sentenced a leading Islamist to death for rape, mass murder and genocide during the country's 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.