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Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Saturday he is ready for a dialogue with Israel if it frees Palestinian ...

Fifty-eight people convicted and sentenced to death in narcotics cases are awaiting execution in Indonesian prisons. ...

Israel must free all Palestinians held without charges under so called "administrative detention" orders or give them ...

The Indonesian government must provide an explanation for President Yudhoyono's decision to cut the sentence of ...

The remains of 12 South Korean soldiers killed in North Korea during the 1950-53 war were brought home Friday -- the ...

The decision of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to cut the sentence of Australian marijuana smuggler Schapelle ...

The granting of a five-year clemency for an Australian drug convict Chapelle Leigh Corby is something of an oddity, ...

Member of the House of Representatives Commission III Aboebakar Alhabsyi questioned the motives of Indonesian ...

The Indonesian government said the clemency granted to Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby was merely based on ...

G8 leaders on Saturday praised the "remarkable efforts" of President Thein Sein and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu ...

Myanmar's reformist president Thein Sein was on Friday recuperating at his private home in Yangon after feeling ...

UN and African Union envoy Kofi Annan Tuesday told the UN Security Council he intends to return to Damascus in the ...

Myanmar has issued opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi with a passport, her party said Tuesday, as the former political ...

Police in Cuba on Sunday released Jose Daniel Ferrer, a political dissident arrested shortly after the visit to the ...

Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh on Tuesday denounced Israel`s decision to legalise three settler outposts in ...