WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama has decided to return a U.S. ambassador to Syria after a four-year hiatus as talks between the two nations intensify, U.S. media reported Tuesday.

A federal judge in Washington ordered the release of a Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison detainee, saying the man’s continued detention was illogical.

The Sri Lankan Government last month declared that its military operation against Tamil rebels has ended, but there remain a number of outstanding issues that if left unaddressed could lead more violence, stated Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Ban calls for the protection of civilians caught in the middle of armed conflict.

Information from two computers seized from the home of Guyanese Abdul Kadir and other documentation are among the evidence the prosecution will present when the conspiracy to blow up the JFK International Airport case starts.

Kenan Malik’s latest book From Fatwa To Jihad: the Rushdie affair and its legacy distorts anti-racist history and plays into the hands of today’s anti-Muslim politics.

A young Muslim veiled woman has joined the Christian Democratic Party in Brussels to become the first and only veiled Muslim in a Christian political party with the likelihood of entering parliament, Al Arabiya TV reported Saturday.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama will offer his personal commitment to “change the conversation” with the Muslim world in a long-awaited speech in Cairo this week.