Main News of September 13

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

WORLD

Protests against an anti-Islam film made in the United States have spread from Libya to several countries across the Middle East, including Egypt and Yemen, where demonstrations turned into violent clashes with police on Thursday

Muslim leaders in Russia have condemned the American anti-Islam video that sparked the Libya riots which killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, as well as the riots themselves, calling for unity amid what appear to be religious provocations

Some 200 people were injured in clashes in front of the U.S. embassy in Cairo, a deputy head of the Egyptian capital’s ambulance service said on Thursday

 

RUSSIA

Russia’s Supreme Court upheld a controversial regional ban on “gay propaganda,” but said it only covers the direct promotion of homosexual relations among minors, LGBT activists said on Thursday

A prosecutor has lodged an appeal against the eight-year jail term handed down to Russian opposition activist Taisiya Osipova, a spokeswoman for the Smolensk Prosecutor’s Office said on Thursday