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Syria to let monitors stay, Obama ups pressure

Syria is ready to let Arab monitors extend their mission beyond this week, an Arab League source said, but U.S. ...

Released Myanmar activists pledge to fight on

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

Iran supplying weapons to Syria crackdown

The United States believes Iran is supplying munitions to aid Syria`s bloody protest crackdown in an initiative ...

Court ruling in sandals theft case "correct"

Constitutional Court (MK) Chairman Mahfud MD said the Palu district court`s verdict on AAL, a teenager accused of ...

Syria frees 552 prisoners without `blood on hands`

Syria on Thursday released 552 people who were detained over their involvement in political unrest and who have "no ...

Iran sentences former president`s daughter to jail

The daughter of influential former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was on Tuesday sentenced to jail and ...

German Jews "ashamed" of holocaust protest in Israel

The head of Germany's Jewish community Tuesday expressed "shock" and "shame" after ultra-Orthodox protesters in Israel ...

China welcomes Arab league mission in Syria

China on Thursday expressed its support for Arab monitors in protest-hit Syria, after France charged the team had not ...

Thousands strike at LG plant in China

Thousands of workers have gone on strike at a factory in eastern China owned by the South Korean conglomerate LG ...

Bima clash needs to be investigated independently

While an investigation into bloody clashes between security forces and local people that claimed the lives of nine ...

Daughter of Iran ex-president Rafsanjani on trial

The daughter of Iranian former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is standing trial on charges of making anti-regime ...

Iraq crisis stirs protests in Sunni strongholds

Several thousand Iraqis in Sunni Muslim strongholds protested on Friday against Shi`ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, ...

RI`s opposition parties failed to function optimally : observer

Indonesia`s opposition parties failed to fulfill their political function optimally in 2011, a political affairs ...

Yemen demo attacked, 7 soldiers killed in an ambush

Loyalists of Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Friday attacked demonstrators gathered south of the capital calling ...

U.S. insists on Syrian president`s ouster

The United States remains steadfast in its call for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down, even as the Arab ...