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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 ...

Thai army chief opposes change to royal insult law

Thailand's powerful army chief expressed opposition Tuesday to amending the country's lese majeste law, recently ...

Syria to let in Arab monitors as deaths mount

Syria agreed on Monday to let Arab states monitor its compliance with an Arab League peace agreement aimed at stopping ...

Syria opposition holds talks in Tunisia

Leaders of Syria`s largest opposition movement met behind closed doors in Tunisia on Saturday to discuss ways of ...

Yemenis protest against amnesty for Saleh

Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis demonstrated Friday across the country rejecting an amnesty given to President Ali ...

Arab Spring makes 2011 busy year for Indonesia

Geographically Indonesia is quite far from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen - Arab countries that experienced popular ...

Toxic liquor kills 143 in eastern India

A batch of home-brewed liquor thought to have been laced with the highly toxic chemical methanol has killed 143 people ...

Medvedev orders probes into alleged fraud in parliamentary elections

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday wrote in his Facebook page that he has ordered probes into the alleged ...

Yemen clashes leave 13 dead

Weekend clashes in southern Yemen left two government soldiers and 11 suspected members of Al-Qaeda dead, military and ...

800 Pakistanis protest against US in capital

Around 800 people poured onto the streets in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Thursday to condemn NATO and the ...

French ambassador returns to Damascus

The French ambassador to Syria has returned to Damascus after being recalled to Paris in mid-November following ...