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Parliamentary Caucus rejects Myanmar`s wish to chair ASEAN in 2014

ASEAN`s Inter-Parliamentary Caucus (AIPC) rejects Myanmar`s proposal to lead ASEAN in 2014, President of the caucus ...

Police break up Maldives anti-govt protest

Maldives police on Sunday used tear gas and batons to break up a protest by opposition activists demanding President ...

Police ready to maintain security on May Day

The Jakarta Regional Police are ready to maintain security in the capital city during the observance of International ...

Govt must dare act firmly against NII : Legislator

The government should dare to take the firmest possible actions against activists of the Indonesian Islamic State ...

NII movement has no room to Flourish

The alleged reemergence of the outlawed Indonesian Islamic State (NII) movement will have no room to develop and be ...

25 killed as Syrian tanks storm Daraa: activists

Thousands of Syrian troops backed by tanks stormed the flashpoint town of Daraa on Monday killing at least 25 people, ...

Yemen protests kill 3 as opposition haggles

Yemeni security forces shot dead three more protesters against President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Monday while opposition ...

Pakistanis rally against drone strikes, block NATO supply route

The main supply route for NATO troops in Afghanistan was temporarily closed on Sunday after thousands of people ...

Syria death toll hits 120 in two days: report

At least 120 people were killed in a two-day crackdown by Syrian security forces against protesters, a group of ...

Syria rounds up regime opponents: rights group

Security forces have arrested dozens of people in raids across Syria even though President Bashar al-Assad has lifted ...

Two Syrian MPs, top cleric quit over bloodshed

Two Syrian MPs from the protest hub city of Daraa and its top cleric on Saturday told Al-Jazeera television they ...

Makassar marginal community observe Earth Day

Non-governmental organization and environment activists grouped in marginal community staged a rally here on Friday to ...

US, China to hold human rights talks

China and the United States will hold human rights talks in Beijing next week, the State Department announced Friday, ...

Israeli intellectuals endorse Palestinian state

Barely audible above the chants of "traitor", an Israeli actress who lost a leg in a Palestinian attack read out on ...

End of Syria emergency rule not enough: activists

Two prominent Syrian human rights activists welcomed a decree signed by President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday lifting ...