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RI to stop sending domestic helpers in 2017

Indonesia will stop sending domestic helpers to foreign countries beginning in 2017, Manpower Transmigration Minister ...

Saudi sends military equipment to Syria rebels: diplomat

Saudi Arabia is delivering military equipment to Syrian rebels in an effort to stop bloodshed by President Bashar ...

President names another three deputy ministers

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the State Palace here on Sunday afternoon named another three deputy ministers. ...

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 ...

AI sends letter to RI home affairs minister on Ahmadiyah

Amnesty International (AI) has sent an open letter to Indonesia`s home affairs minister to convey its concern over ...

Amnesty calls on Canada to arrest Bush

Amnesty International called on Canadian authorities Wednesday to arrest and prosecute George W. Bush, saying the ...

Amnesty calls on Canada to arrest Bush

Amnesty International called on Canadian authorities Wednesday to arrest and prosecute George W. Bush, saying the ...

Saudi women, Yemenis beheaded for murders

Two Saudi women and two Yemeni men were executed by the sword on Wednesday for separate murders, the interior ministry ...

RI govt, house planning to ratify convention on disabled`s rights

The government and the House of Representatives` Commission VIII on Wednesday discussed a plan to ratify the ...

DPR passes bills on intelligence, judicial commission

The House of Representatives (DPR) passed the bills on intelligence and the Judicial Commission at a plenary session ...

Police chief opens ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime

National Police Chief General Timur Pradopo officially kicked off the Eighth ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on ...

Turkey evacuates dozens of Somali blast victims

Turkey evacuated dozens of severely wounded blast victims from the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday, two days ...

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 ...

Myanmar, US diplomats hold rare talks in Washington

Myanmar`s Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin held rare talks Thursday in Washington with senior US State Department ...