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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 ...

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is holding a Saudi diplomat kidnapped last month in Yemen`s main southern city of ...

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

More than 300 prisoners escaped from a jail in northwest Pakistan early on Sunday, after it was attacked by Islamist ...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday offered advice for Myanmar`s democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she ...

Democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi`s party won almost all the seats it contested in Myanmar elections, becoming the ...

The US State Department said Wednesday it is sending one observer each from two US-funded pro-democracy groups to ...

The Law and Human Rights Ministry granted remissions to a total of 333 prisoners on the occasion of Seclusion Day on ...

British hostage Judith Tebbutt, captured in Kenya over six months ago by gunmen who killed her husband, was released ...

Thousands of Tamils from across Europe protested in front of UN headquarters in Geneva Monday demanding the creation ...

The Kremlin held out an olive branch to Russia's opposition on Monday before protesters take to the streets to ...