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Hgypt re-arrests hezbollah `spy`

Egyptian security authorities on Monday detained a man suspected of spying for the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah ...

Forty-two foreigners being held at Ambon immigration detention center

The Immigration Detention Center in Ambon, Maluku, is holding 42 foreigners for illegally working in Maluku waters. ...

Malaysia to start security law reforms next week

Malaysia will move to abolish two minor security laws next week but wait to scrap the tougher Internal Security Act ...

Kadhafi`s ex-pm on hunger-strike: lawyer

Former Libyan prime minister Baghdadi al-Mahmudi, detained after fleeing to Tunisia, has gone on hunger strike to ...

Democrat Party chairman undergoes questioning at KPK

Ruling Democrat Party chief Anas Urbaningrum on Thursday met a summons from the Corruption Eradication Commission ...

Twenty-three Myanmarese apply for asylum seeker status

Twenty-three Myanmarese have applied for asylum seeker status to the United Nations High Commission on Refugees ...

US concerned about African migrants in Libya

The United States is "deeply concerned" at the plight of black African migrants and refugees in Libya, citing reports ...

Florida woman bites elderly man in "vampire" attack

A Florida woman who allegedly claimed to be a vampire has been charged with battery after violently biting a man in a ...

KPK chief denies ever meeting Nazaruddin

Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Chief Busyro Muqoddas denied that he had met with former Democrat Party ...

Husin Sitorus freed from Malaysian jail, returns to N. Sumatra

An Indonesian migrant worker hailing from North Sumatra`s provincial capital of Medan, Husin Sitorus,62, returned home ...

Sri Lankan immigrants in despair, finally surrender

Some 88 Sri Lankan immigrants who had been living in despair aboard their boat, the MV Alicia, since July 10, 2011, ...

Guatemala agrees to extradite the ex-president

Guatemala`s Constitutional Court on Friday ratified the extradition of former President Alfonso Portillo to the ...

Starving Sri Lankan immigrants finally disembark from boat

After stubbornly refusing to disembark from the MV Alicia since July 10, 2011, 84 illegal Sri Lankan immigrants on ...

Sri Lanka lifts state of emergency

Sri Lanka today announced the lifting of the state of emergency imposed nearly 30 years ago to confront the threat ...

Police set up team to hunt Nazaruddin`s wife

Police have set up a team to hunt graft suspect Nazaruddin`s wife, Neneng Sri Wahyuni, who is also wanted for ...