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China adopted a law on Friday to protect for the first time the rights of the mentally ill after years of accusations ...

Myanmar`s Rohingya Muslim minority issue should provide a golden opportunity for Aung San Suu Kyi to prove to the ...

German Chancellor Angela Dorothea Merkel visited Istiqlal grand Mosque here on Tuesday as part of her two-day state ...

The Indonesian government will open a consulate in Ramallah, Palestine, to strengthen its support of the Palestinian ...

A bomb explosion killed at least eight people, including six Shiite pilgrims, in Pakistan`s insurgency-torn southwest ...

An Egyptian court overturned a government decree allowing the army to arrest civilians on Tuesday, a setback for ...

Gunmen killed three policemen in a drive-by shooting on the outskirts of Pakistan`s troubled southwestern city of ...

US President Barack Obama said Saturday that the G8 -- which includes Russia -- agreed that the political process in ...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday told China that it cannot deny the "aspirations" of its citizens as ...

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was grilled by three judges on Monday over his role in a prostitution case in ...

The United Nations on Tuesday increased its death toll estimate for the Syria unrest to more than 9,000. ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has refused to pardon two men sentenced to death for a deadly bomb attack at ...

Riots erupted in Dakar Friday night, leaving a policeman dead, as angry protesters took to the streets after a court ...

Human rights activists, some dressed in orange prison jumpsuits, protested in front of the White House Monday to ...

A woman writer was sentenced to five years in prison in Vietnam for spreading anti-government propaganda, state media ...