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UN envoy concludes Sri Lanka execution video authentic

A UN envoy confirmed Monday that a video allegedly depicting Sri Lanka troops executing Tamil Tigers was authentic, ...

Lee praises navy commandos for daring rescue operation against Somali pirates

President Lee Myung-bak praised a contingent of Navy commandos Monday for their daring raid early this year to free a ...

ASEAN summit opens RI pandora`s box of infrastructure projects

The 18th ASEAN Summit four weeks ago in Jakarta has unexpectedly opened the pandora`s box of Indonesia`s ...

S Sumatra earns $491 Mln from on-oil/gas exports

South Sumatra`s non-oil/non-gas exports in January 2011 rose to US$491.324 million from US$449.200 million a month ...

Italian killed in Lebanon blast against UN: ANSA

An Italian peacekeeper was killed and several people wounded in an explosion targeting a UN peacekeeping patrol in ...

BPS: Imported products in Bali dominated by Vietnam

The Bali Statistics Agency (BPS) said in February 2011, the circulation of Vietnamese imported products in Bali ...

Six UNIFIL peacekeepers wounded in roadside bombing in south Lebanon

Six Italian peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) were wounded Friday when a bomb ...

UN rights body fears civil war in Yemen

The UN Human Rights Commission voiced fears Friday that Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh`s government will plunge ...

Marty: RI concerned about conditions of Palestinian political prisoners

Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa has expressed concern about the conditions of Palestinian political ...

U.S. names Caucasus Islamist group to terrorism list

The United States on Thursday named an Islamist insurgent group in Russia`s North Caucasus to its official list of ...

KPK chief corroborates with Lord Acton`s adagium on corruption

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men," according to ...

Eu imposes new sanctions on Iran

The EU tightened its sanctions on Iran on Monday, adding more than 100 firms to a blacklist of companies hit by an ...

Yemen police, tribes in armed clashes: witnesses

Armed clashes broke out Monday between Yemeni policemen and tribesmen loyal to opposition chieftain Sadiq al-Ahmar in ...

RI`s forest cutting moratorium begins gaining int`l acclaim

The recently introduced moratorium on forest conversions has begun winning international acclaim with Norway ...

Study ties new Al Qaeda chief to murder of journalist pearl

Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian militant recently appointed interim leader of al Qaeda operations, has been linked to the ...