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British Foreign Minister William Hague called Monday for "ever-increasing" international pressure, rather than ...

One year on from an election condemned by the West as a farce, military-dominated Myanmar has surprised critics with a ...

Myanmar`s president has approved changes to a law on political parties, paving the way for democracy leader Aung San ...

Constitutional Court (MK) chairman Mahfud MD hailed the government`s recent decision to tighten requirements for ...

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

The government has begun tightening the requirements for convicted corrupters to obtain jail term remissions, Law and ...

Guards at a jail in northern China sold luxuries including pure-breed dogs, spirits and mobile phones to inmates, ...

Emergency workers rescued a 27-year-old woman alive from a collapsed building on Wednesday, three days after an ...

Law and Human Rights Minister Amir Syamsuddin visited the Class-II Denpasar Correctional Institute on Saturday. ...

Fifteen Palestinian prisoners released as part of a swap deal that saw Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit freed from five ...

Some of the Palestinian prisoners released as part of a deal to hand over captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit will ...

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

A group of 40 Palestinian detainees being exiled overseas under a deal to free a captured Israeli soldier will be sent ...

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

Twenty inmates died and 12 others were wounded during a fight Saturday at a northeastern Mexico prison near the US ...