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NZ prisoners given carrots to quit smoking

New Zealand prisoners are reportedly being offered carrot sticks to help them overcome nicotine cravings as jails ...

NAM demands release of Palestinian political detainees in Israel

The deep concern expressed by Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa about Palestinian political ...

Marty: RI concerned about conditions of Palestinian political prisoners

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

NAM Meeting In Bali Momentum To Garner Support For Palestine

Palestine has always been a topic in Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meetings, and this is also the case at the ongoing ...

19 stranded immigrants escape from their hotel

Nineteen of the 101 immigrants stranded in the Sunda Srait escaped from their accommodation of a hotel in Serang in ...

NAM meeting to produce five documents

Indonesian permanent representative to the UN, ambassador Hasan Kleib said the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) will at its ...

RI to encourage NAM member countries to support Palestine`s independence

In the ongoing Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Bali, Indonesia will encourage other NAM member countries to ...

Syrian authorities set free human rights activist

The Syrian authorities on Sunday released Anwar al-Bunni, a Syrian lawyer and human rights activist, after he finished ...

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 ...

36 dead as Taliban attack Afghan road company

Thirty-six people were killed and 20 wounded Thursday when the Taliban stormed an Afghan road construction company, ...

Bring back waterboarding, says Cheney

Harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding played a role in tracking down Osama bin Laden and should be ...

Afghan security forces battle Kandahar insurgents for second day

Gunfire rang out through the main city in Afghanistan`s south after Afghan troops fought running battles with Taliban ...

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 ...

Syria arrests women, opposition figures-rights groups

Syrian security forces on Saturday arrested two veteran opposition figures and a group of female protesters as part of ...

Syria rounds up regime opponents: rights group

Security forces have arrested dozens of people in raids across Syria even though President Bashar al-Assad has lifted ...