#crackdown

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Saudi interior minister named crown prince

Saudi Arabia`s interior minister, 78-year-old Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, was named the new heir to the throne in a ...

news focus: police deploy more personnel to defuse tensions in Papua

Following a series of shooting incidents in Papua Province that killed several people, including Mulia Sector Police ...

Syria, US recall envoys in new spat

Syria has recalled its ambassador to Washington, an official television station reported Monday, shortly after the ...

NU leader asks govt to handle Papua problems without violence

Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) leader KH Said Aqil Siroj on Friday asked the government to handle the problems in Papua "with ...

Syrian forces kill leading activist in tribal east

Government troops on Saturday shot dead a prominent activist in eastern Syria who helped organise peaceful ...

Syria draft constitution to be ready in 4 months: SANA

President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday announced the creation of an ad hoc committee tasked with preparing a new ...

Arab foreign ministers to discuss Syria on Sunday

Arab foreign ministers will meet in Cairo on Sunday to discuss Syrian President Bashar al-Assad`s crackdown on ...

Yemen protesters urge UN to put Saleh on trial

Demonstrators on Friday called for the United Nations to intervene to put Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on trial ...

Syria woman thought mutilated turns up alive on TV

Syrian state television has aired an interview with a woman who had reportedly been found decapitated, armless and ...

Russia, China veto UN resolution condemning Syria

Russia and China joined forces on Tuesday to veto a European-drafted U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Syria ...

Egyptian police raid Al Jazeera unit again

Egyptian police raided the offices of an Al Jazeera channel in Cairo on Thursday and confiscated equipment for the ...

Jordan allows Hamas leader to visit ailing mother

Khaled Meshaal, the leader of Islamist group Hamas which rules the Gaza Strip, has been allowed into Jordan to visit ...

Syria death toll now over 2,700: UN

Over 2,700 people have been killed in Syria`s bloody crackdown on protestors, the Office of the United Nations High ...

Three slain Chechens buried in Turkey

Three Chechens, one of them closely linked to Russia`s most-wanted militant leader, were buried on Monday after they ...

Malaysians among four dead in Thai South blasts

Malaysian tourists were among four killed and 110 wounded in multiple blasts in the insurgency-plagued Thai south, ...