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13 foreign fugitives nabbed in Philippines in Q1

Philippine authorities have arrested 13 foreign fugitives wanted for various crimes in their home countries in the ...

More than 1,000 inmates moved after prison riot and fire in Uruguay

Authorities were forced to move more than 1,000 inmates from the Comcar prison near Uruguayan capital Montevideo after ...

Afghanistan, US finalise draft post-2014 deal: Kabul

Afghan and US officials have finalised the initial draft of a strategic partnership agreement that will govern ...

Two Guantanamo Uighurs sent to El Salvador

The Pentagon said Thursday it had sent two members of China`s Uighur minority who were detained without charge for ...

Migrant worker escapes death penalty in Saudi, returns to Indonesia

Fitra Yanti Binti Ali Mali, an Indonesian migrant worker, is heading home on April 19, 2012, after charges were ...

Israel: 1.200 Palestinian prisoners begin hunger strike

Some 1,200 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails have begun a hunger strike and another 2,300 are refusing food ...

Karzai says NATO failed as 18-hr Kabul attack ends

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday that a coordinated Taliban attack showed a "failure" by Afghan ...

Police seize 10,000 liters of diesel oil

The Jambi Police`s patrol team has confiscated 10,000 liters of subsidized diesel oil on Lingkar Timur street, ...

Agusrin taken to penitentiary to begin jail in corruption case

Convicted Bengkulu Governor, Agusrin Maryono Najamuddin, was taken to Cipinang Penitentiary, East Jakarta, on Tuesday ...

Ex-Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout sentenced to 25 years in prison

Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer who was the subject of a book titled "Merchant of Death," was sentenced ...

UN to replace judge who quit troubled KRouge court

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said he will appoint a replacement for a Swiss judge who quit Cambodia`s Khmer Rouge war ...

Nigeria`s Boko Haram kills 4, robs bank

Suspected members of Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram killed four people on Friday when they robbed a bank and ...

Judges grill Strauss-Kahn over prostitution case

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was grilled by three judges on Monday over his role in a prostitution case in ...

Sinai armed group surrounds peacekeeper base

An armed group blocked access to the headquarters of a peacekeeping force in Egypt`s Sinai to pressure the government ...

Potter actor jailed for his part in London riots

A London court on Tuesday sentenced a star of the Harry Potter films to two years in prison after he earlier admitted ...