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Govt to take stern measure against meat cartel perpetrators

Coordinating Minister for Economy Hatta Rajasa stated that the government will take a stern measure against the meat ...

Nearly 90% of Syria conflict dead killed in 2012

Nearly 90 percent of those who have died in Syria`s 21-month conflict were killed in 2012, the Syrian Observatory for ...

More than 45,000 killed in Syria conflict: Watchdog

More than 45,000 people have been killed in Syria since the outbreak in March 2011 of an anti-regime revolt that ...

Nigerian military says 35 Islamists killed in crackdown

Nigeria`s military said Monday it has killed 35 suspected Boko Haram Islamists in a crackdown on the insurgent group ...

Israel asks Egypt to pull armor, jets out of Sinai: report

Israel has urged Egypt to limit or remove its heavy armor and war aircraft from the Sinai peninsula -- ostensibly ...

Egyptian police fight gunmen in Sinai - tv

Egyptian police fought gunmen in northern Sinai`s main town of al-Arish on Thursday, state television reported, a day ...

Iran hosts Syria talks, calls for national dialogue

Iran on Thursday hosted a 29-nation conference on Syria with the aim of stopping bloodshed there and forging a role ...

Iran shuts down coffee shops in morality crackdown

Iranian police shut down dozens of restaurants and coffee shops over the weekend, Iranian media reported, in a renewed ...

Myanmar releases detained students

Myanmar on Saturday released student leaders held in the country`s largest crackdown on dissent since the end of ...

Thai Delegation Meets with ICC as Country Faces Risk of Renewed Hostilities

-     This week a delegation of Thai citizens held preliminary meetings with prosecutors of the ...

Syria ally Iran urges calm over Turkish jet shot down

Iran has urged Ankara and Damascus to show "restraint" over Syria`s shooting down of a Turkish fighter jet, Iranian ...

France says Russia `playing its role` in Syrian transition

France`s President Francois Hollande said Tuesday after the G20 summit that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin was ...

Suicide bombing of Nigeria police station kills 4

A suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into the entrance of the police headquarters of northeast ...

NATO chief says `no intention` to intervene in Syria

NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Sunday voiced concern about violence in Syria, but said the alliance has "no ...

Cuban dissident detained after Pope visit released

Police in Cuba on Sunday released Jose Daniel Ferrer, a political dissident arrested shortly after the visit to the ...