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Canada backs Arab League plan on assad departure

Canada supports the Arab League plan for an immediate departure of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and urges the UN ...

RI govt looks set to cut subsidized fuel consumption despite protests

The government looks set to limit the use of subsidized fuel oils and implement an oil-to-gas conversion program ...

Libya would fall into civil war if NTC resigns: leader

Libya would fall into a "civil war" if the National Transitional Council resigns, the chief of the nation`s ruling ...

Coup plot foiled in Bangladesh, says army

The Bangladesh army said Thursday it had foiled a plot last month by some "religiously fanatic" serving officers to ...

Radioactive material said stolen from Egypt plant

Radioactive material has been stolen from a nuclear power station on Egypt`s Mediterranean coast that was the site of ...

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 ...