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Peruvian Vice President Omar Chehade, once seen as a close ally of President Ollanta Humala, resigned Tuesday amid a ...

The number of victims in the Italian cruise liner sinking increased to five on Sunday, while the country was shocked ...

Free at last after years locked up by the junta, prominent Myanmar dissidents have vowed to keep up their fight for ...

Muhammad Nazaruddin, a suspect in the Palembang` athletes dormitory project bribery case, failed to attend his court ...

A US Marine ordered his men to "shoot first and ask questions later," triggering one of the Iraq war's most ...

Human rights activists, some dressed in orange prison jumpsuits, protested in front of the White House Monday to ...

George Junus Aditjondro was named suspect on Thursday after being questioned for four hours by the police in ...

Jamilah binti Abidin Rofi`i who was to be sentenced to death for murder had been repatriated to Indonesia on Dec. 28, ...

A woman writer was sentenced to five years in prison in Vietnam for spreading anti-government propaganda, state media ...

Jakarta police have busted a methamphetamine trafficking ring by arresting nine people who were about to distribute ...

An Ethiopian court sentenced two Swedish journalists on Tuesday to 11 years in prison for helping and promoting the ...

Thailand's powerful army chief expressed opposition Tuesday to amending the country's lese majeste law, recently ...

A senior Afghan Taliban commander on Monday denied that the group held secret talks with U.S. officials which had ...

A Sri Lankan Appeal Court on Friday dismissed former army chief Sarath Fonseka`s plea against his 30-month prison ...

Constitutional Court chairman Mahfud MD has expressed support for the extension of the tenure of the Judicial Mafia ...