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Situation in Syria constitutes international armed conflict: Red Cross

The situation in Syria now "amounts to an international armed conflict" after U.S. missile strikes on a Syrian air ...

UN Security Council slams deadly terrorist attack in Istanbul

The United Nations Security Council "condemned in the strongest terms the heinous and cowardly terrorist attacks" in ...

Azerbaijani envoy asks Armenia to withdraw its military forces

Azerbaijans Ambassador to Indonesia Tamerlan Garayev asked Armenia to withdraw its military forces from the occupied ...

Faced with Israeli denial of access to occupied Palestine, Makarim Wibisono resigns

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian territories is ...

Boycott needed to force Israel to end occupation in Palestine

Supporters of Palestine around the world are promoting a BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement to force ...

Death toll in Afghan hospital bombing rises to 19

The death toll by a US airstrike at a hospital run by a medical aid group in Afghanistans northern Kunduz city has ...

MH17 probe hampered by volatile security at crash site: UN

The United Nations said here Friday that a probe into the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 is being hampered ...

President Yudhoyono urges global communities to help end casualties in Gaza

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has urged the global communities to unite and help end the human tragedy in Gaza, ...

Israeli strikes on Palestinian homes could breach laws of war: UN

Israel could be violating the laws of war by bombing Palestinian homes in Gaza, the UNs human rights office said ...

Indonesia`s Islamic Organizations Strongly Condemn Abduction of Nigerian Schoolgirls

A number of leaders of Indonesian Islamic organizations gathered in the headquarters of the Indonesian Ulema (Islamic ...

UN appeals for more action to protect conflict-affected children

A senior UN official said on Tuesday (Sept. 9) that strengthened collective actions are in urgent need to respond to ...

RI won`t ratify arms trade treaty: Lawmaker

Indonesian Parliament objects to ratifying the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) during the final United Nations Conference on ...

Buddhist Leader Calls for 2015 Nuclear Abolition Summit in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

-     In his 30th annual peace proposal, released on January 26, Daisaku Ikeda, president of the ...

Israel police arrest Hamas lawmaker in e.Jerusalem

Israeli police arrested a Hamas lawmaker on Monday who had been sheltering for more than a year in the International ...

Sudan threatens to terminate Darfur peacekeeping mission

Sudan`s foreign minister said on Tuesday that any attempt to "impose new commitments" on the UN peacekeeping force in ...