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China has installed a silent alarm system inside every house in a border town as part of its strengthened crackdown on ...

Italy said Wednesday it was closing its embassy in Damascus and repatriating some staff to protest Syria`s ...

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International urged China Wednesday not to repatriate North Korean refugees, joining ...

Riots erupted in Dakar Friday night, leaving a policeman dead, as angry protesters took to the streets after a court ...

Amnesty International has urged the Indonesian government to provide protection for hundreds of Shiites who have been ...

Human rights activists, some dressed in orange prison jumpsuits, protested in front of the White House Monday to ...

A Saudi woman was beheaded Monday after being convicted of practising sorcery, which is banned in the ...

Coordinating Minister for Political, Security and Legal Affairs Djoko Suyanto said there is no political detainee in ...

Former Libyan prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi failed to turn up Friday at a court hearing in Tunisia to fight an ...

A man convicted of murdering a policeman during a drug trafficking arrest was beheaded on Friday, the interior ...

Iran on Thursday hanged two men convicted of drug trafficking in the shrine city of Qom, south of the capital Tehran, ...

The 19th Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit and the Sixth East Asian Summit will not discuss the ...

Sri Lanka is to publish its report into the final stages of its war with Tamil rebels despite international criticism ...

Sri Lanka`s government on Thursday sought to dismiss war crimes allegations as propaganda from its defeated rivals, as ...

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has asked all parties to view the recent incidents in Papua and West Papua with a ...