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Thai Minister of Foreign Affairs Surapong Tovichakchaikul on Saturday hailed the move by Myanmar government to free ...

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 ...

British Foreign Secretary William Hague Thursday called on Myanmar to release all its political prisoners and make ...

Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis demonstrated Friday across the country rejecting an amnesty given to President Ali ...

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 ...

President Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerrilla who was jailed and tortured during Brazil`s military ...

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 ...

One year on from an election condemned by the West as a farce, military-dominated Myanmar has surprised critics with a ...

Myanmar`s president has approved changes to a law on political parties, paving the way for democracy leader Aung San ...

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