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China deports 5,000 N. Korea refugees annually

China repatriates about 5,000 North Korean refugees each year even though they often face harsh punishment on their ...

Gaza militants fire rockets, testing truce

Gaza militants fired rockets at southern Israel on Monday, in violence that tested a shaky truce brokered by Egypt ...

Kadhafi death poses `number of questions`: Russia`s Lavrov

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday said the convoy carrying Moamer Kadhafi posed no danger when attacked ...

Key Palestinian prisoners to be freed

Israel is releasing 1,027 Palestinians in exchange for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, in a two-stage operation that ...

Gaza prepares to receive prisoners as `heroes`

Palestinian groups are planning celebrations to mark Israel`s imminent release of hundreds of prisoner "heroes" in ...

Aceh police nab four suspected Malacca Strait pirates

Police in Aceh have arrested four men suspected of having committed piracy against ships passing through the Malacca ...

One killed, two injured in Pattani prison riot

Rival groups of inmates rioted in Pattani provincial central prison, Monday, morning resulting in one prisoner dead ...

India asks Sri Lanka to probe war crimes claims

India on Friday urged Sri Lanka to examine claims made in a British documentary that said it targeted civilians while ...

UN rights chief warns of action in absence of S.Lanka probe

The UN`s human rights chief Thursday warned Sri Lanka not to take too long in probing war crimes allegations, saying ...

Marty: RI concerned about conditions of Palestinian political prisoners

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

Minister to fire rouge penitentiary officers

Justice minister Patrialis Akbar has vowed to fire penitentiary officers who mistreat prisoners."I do not like to hear ...

Bin Laden, Geronimo link angers native Americans

The reported use of "Geronimo" as a codeword in the operation that led to Osama bin Laden`s killing has angered some ...

European discomfort grows about Bin Laden killing

European happiness with the death of Osama bin Laden was tempered on Wednesday by details showing he was unarmed when ...

Kadhafi seeks UN, AU probe into Libyan unrest

Moamer Kadhafi said he wanted the United Nations or the African Union to probe the unrest rocking Libya and promised ...

RI still considering prisoners exchange proposals : minister

Indonesia is still considering the possibility of proposals for the conclusion of prisoner exhange accords with a few ...