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Saudi Arabia suppresses or fails to protect the rights of millions of women, foreign workers and Shiites, and reforms ...

A top anti-corruption official in Bangladesh was arrested as he accepted a bribe during a sting operation in the port ...

An outspoken radio broadcaster in the Philippines was shot dead Monday, police said, becoming the latest journalist to ...

Police have nabbed the head of a criminal gang believed to be responsible for the killing of more than 20 people in ...

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck the Fiji region Monday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was ...

A series of unmanned US drone strikes in a lawless district of Pakistan on Sunday killed at least 13 militants, ...

Car bombs and explosions killed eight people, including a policeman and two teenage boys, in and around Baghdad on ...

Israel used "excessive" force in its assault on a ship carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza that killed nine Turkish ...

About 200 journalists marched in Sanaa on Sunday to demand the release of press freedom activist Tawakel Karman and ...

Relatives of Tunisia`s ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali have arrived in Canada, a government official in ...

A man who robs banks wearing a rubber mask of US President Barack Obama has struck again, Austrian police said Friday. ...

Vice President Boediono has reminded Sumatra farmers that the current climate change, which is difficult to predict, ...

US law enforcement agents snatched more than 100 alleged Cosa Nostra mobsters in arrests around New York Thursday in ...

Tunisia`s caretaker government on Thursday declared three days of mourning after bloody unrest toppled disgraced ...

A spate of explosions across Iraq on Thursday killed at least 50 people, most of them in twin suicide car bombings in ...