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Australia asylum policy `draconian`: Rights group

Australia has damaged its human rights record by persistently undercutting refugee protections, including a ...

Australia must understand Indonesia`s sovereignty: Chief minister

Indonesias chief security minister Djoko Suyanto stated that Australia, under the administration of Prime Minister ...

S. Korean trade official kidnapped in Libya

South Korea said Monday that a government trade official had been kidnapped in Libya, amid ongoing instability ...

IMF official killed in Kabul restaurant blast

The International Monetary Funds representative in Afghanistan was killed in the attack on a Kabul restaurant friday ...

British actor Roger Lloyd-Pack dead at 69

Roger Lloyd-Pack, who played dimwit Trigger in "Only Fools and Horses", one of Britains best-loved television ...

Hollywood actors in Nepal to shoot Everest film

Hollywood actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Josh Brolin have arrived in Nepal to shoot a new film based on the Everest ...

Car bomb in Lebanon town near Syria kills three

A powerful car bomb explosion killed at least three people and wounded 20 Thursday in downtown Hermel, a stronghold of ...

Snowden leaks may be `lethal` for troops

Fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowdens theft of 1.7 million secret documents could potentially put US ...

Palestinians beat, detain jewish settlers in West Bank

Palestinians beat and detained several Israeli settlers who had entered a village near the West Bank city of Nablus ...

Jordan says two UNAMID peacekeepers killed in Darfur

Gunmen killed two peacekeepers, one from Jordan and one from Senegal, in an attack on Sunday on a UN patrol in Sudan's ...

Kerry in new Year's day trip to Israel

US Secretary of State John Kerry will make a New Year's Day trip to Israel and the Palestinian Territories aiming to ...

UN reinforcements start arriving in S. Sudan

The first United Nations (UN) peacekeeping reinforcements arrived Friday in South Sudan, where the government is said ...

Beirut car bomb kills adviser to ex-PM

A huge car bomb rocked central Beirut on Friday, killing an adviser to Lebanese ex-premier Saad Hariri and leaving ...

Kerry expresses concern over Egypt crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood

US Secretary of State John Kerry expressed concern Thursday over Egypts intensified crackdown on the Muslim ...

UN reinforcements due in S. Sudan in 48 hours

The first reinforcements to the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan are expected to arrive within two days, the ...