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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 ...

Arab League approves travel ban on Syrian VIPs

The Arab League`s ministerial meeting on Saturday approved a travel ban on Syrian high-ranking officials and a freeze ...

Arab League gives Syria Sunday deadline on observers

An Arab League ministerial committee on Saturday slapped 19 Syrian officials with a ban on travel to Arab states and ...

Myanmar president signs protest bill: state media

Myanmar`s president has formally approved a bill allowing citizens to protest peacefully if they have permission, ...

President Yudhoyono orders RI ambassador to Syria`s recall

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has instructed the foreign minister to recall the Indonesian ambassador to Syria ...

UK orders closure of Iran`s London embassy

Britain said on Wednesday it had ordered the immediate closure of Iran`s embassy in London and had closed its own ...