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Syria vows `free elections`

Syria vowed on Saturday to hold "free and transparent" elections by the end of 2011 as Arab states in the Gulf joined ...

Korean gov`t gears up for cyber security master plan

The government is pushing to build an integrated system for responding to cyber attacks to make the responses more ...

Bears saved from forced vodka drinking

Ukraine`s Environment Minister Mykola Zlochevsky vowed on Wednesday to free all bears kept in restaurants for ...

Afghanistan: At least 18 civilians killed by roadside bomb

At least 18 Afghans died when the minivan they were travelling in hit a roadside bomb in the southern Helmand ...

Syria: Homs activists call for Ramadan protests

Syrian activists said they have called for daily protests during the holy Ramadan month to start on Monday. ...

At least two dead as Yemen army, tribes clash

At least two tribesmen were killed and three wounded in fierce clashes with the Yemeni army on Monday near the ...

Police kill 4 after blasts, attacks in China`s west

Police shot dead four "rioters" in China`s far west on Sunday after at least three people, including a policeman, were ...

Trial venue of former Egyptian president changed

The trial venue of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been changed to a police academy in Cairo, Chief ...

Floods wash N. Korean landmines into S. Korea

Parts of North Korean landmines apparently churned up by torrential rains have washed up across the border in South ...

Mubarak refuses to eat and `extremely weak`

Hosni Mubarak refuses to eat as is "extremely weak," state news agency MENA reported Wednesday, citing the director ...

N. Korea, US to hold nuclear talks

The United States and North Korea hold talks Thursday on how to improve ties and the Stalinist North`s secretive ...

Hundreds evacuated after China quake: state media

Hundreds of people have been forced to evacuate after a shallow earthquake damaged their homes in the far western ...

North Koreans Holds Local Elections

North Koreans began casting their votes on Sunday to elect representatives for local assemblies, state media said, ...

Iranian nuclear scientist shot dead

A nuclear scientist was shot dead on Saturday by unknown assailants on a motorcycle, the latest expert with links to ...

At least 16 die in East China highspeed train crash

At least 16 people died when a high-speed train smashed into a stalled train in front of it in China`s eastern ...