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Rescue teams and residents combed through storm-wracked towns to assess damage on Saturday from a chain of tornadoes ...

Myanmar has been entrusted by its fellow members in ASEAN to become the next ASEAN Chair in 2014 because the country ...

The chief warden of Bali`s Kerobokan penitentiary, Bowo Nariwono, as well as the prison`s chief of security, Anang ...

Schapelle Leigh Corby, the Australian prisoner over a narcotics case, has refused to be moved from the Kerobokan ...

A number of Indonesian NGOs, organized as Indonesian Solidarity for ASEAN Peoples (SIAP), wrote a letter to ASEAN ...

Violence at a prison on the outskirts of Mexico`s northern business city Monterrey killed at least 20 people on ...

Law and Human Rights Minister Amir Syamsuddin has categorically denied an allegation his ministry had received Rp1 ...

The Attorney General`s Office (AGO) is to do a recount of prisoners sentenced to death for drug-related offenses in ...

Fierce clashes broke out near the Syrian capital on Sunday as President Bashar al-Assad`s opponents sought to crank up ...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday praised the government of Myanmar for its democratic reforms and said ...

The top US Senate Republican on Tuesday said he could back easing sanctions on Myanmar if it advances a host of ...

A key US senator on Sunday said the United States was "pleased with the progress" of Myanmar`s reforms but urged the ...

The Palestinians urged Israel to free dozens of Palestinian lawmakers during a new round of exploratory talks held in ...

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

Syria`s President Bashar al-Assad has decreed a general amnesty for crimes committed during unrest in the country over ...