About 10,000 Russian nationalists marched in Moscow on Monday in an annual show of anger against the presence of Muslim migrants that has previously escalated into violence.

The city-sanctioned demonstration was staged in the same blue-collar region on the city's outskirts that saw riots break out three weeks ago over a stabbing murder blamed on a citizen of Azerbaijan.

Kenya charged four men Monday in connection with the Westgate mall massacre in September, an attack claimed by Somalia's Al-Qaida linked Shebab in which at least 67 people were killed.

"The accused persons carried out a terrorist attack at Westgate Shopping Mall on September 21 by supporting a terrorist group," the charge sheet read.

An international operation was under way on Monday to hunt the killers of two French journalists shot dead in Mali, with a police source in the country's north saying around a dozen suspects had been arrested.

Ghislaine Dupont, 57, and Claude Verlon, 55, were kidnapped and killed by what French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said were "terrorist groups" in the flashpoint northeastern town of Kidal on Saturday.

A Pakistan court on Monday granted bail to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over a deadly raid on a radical mosque, bringing closer his possible release after more than six months of house arrest.

The ruling by an Islamabad district court means the ex-general is on bail in all the cases brought against him since his return to Pakistan from self-imposed exile, including one relating to the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

At least 13 people were killed in three gun battles in Matamoros, a smuggling springboard on the U.S.-Mexico border coveted by drug gangs, state officials said late Sunday.

In one shoot-out, Mexican Marines clashed with armed civilians traveling aboard several vehicles. Four of the civilians in the vehicles were killed, and the Marines confiscated three automatic weapons and ammunition, the state of Tamaulipas said in a statement.

Thousands of Iranians shouted "Death to America" as they rallied Monday on the anniversary of the 1979 U.S. embassy takeover, in a setback to hopes for a thaw in relations.

Hardline and conservative factions had called for a massive demonstration 34 years after Islamist students stormed the embassy compound in Tehran, holding 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days.

Doctors and nurses tasked with monitoring the health of terror suspects were complicit in abuses committed at prisons run by the Pentagon and the CIA, an independent report said Monday.

The Defense Department and the CIA demanded that the health care personnel "collaborate in intelligence gathering and security practices in a way that inflicted severe harm on detainees in U.S. custody," according to the two-year study by the Institute of Medicine and the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundations.

Thai rescuers Monday recounted frantic efforts to pluck terrified survivors from the sea after a crowded tourist ferry sank, leaving six dead including three foreigners, as police searched for the captain who fled.

The tragedy raised new questions about safety standards in the kingdom, which drew a record 22 million tourists last year but is struggling to shake off a reputation for lax regulation.

At least four Shiite Muslims, including two doctors, were gunned down Monday and three others were injured in different parts of Pakistan's port city of Karachi, police officials said.

A doctor was shot dead in Manghopir neighborhood in western district and another was gunned down around noon at Tariq Road in the eastern part of the city.

The Afghan president has criticized the timing of a U.S. drone strike that killed the Pakistani Taliban leader, after an angry Islamabad expressed fears the death would undermine planned peace talks.

The killing Friday of Hakimullah Mehsud, the feared chief of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) which has killed thousands in a six-year insurgency, sparked a furious response from the Pakistan government.