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Malaysia on Monday defended its deportation of a Saudi journalist wanted at home for comments deemed insulting to the ...

Fierce clashes broke out near the Syrian capital on Sunday as President Bashar al-Assad`s opponents sought to crank up ...

A foreign national kidnapped at the weekend in central Somalia is an American journalist and writer, a regional ...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged the Security Council to act on Syria as President Bashar al-Assad came under new ...

A suspected bomb blast near a church outside the Nigerian capital on Christmas morning killed at least 15 people, a ...

A Saudi woman was beheaded Monday after being convicted of practising sorcery, which is banned in the ...

A man convicted of murdering a policeman during a drug trafficking arrest was beheaded on Friday, the interior ...

About 1,000 workers at a plant in southern China that makes components for Apple and IBM went on strike this week, a ...

The 19th Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit and the Sixth East Asian Summit will not discuss the ...

China repatriates about 5,000 North Korean refugees each year even though they often face harsh punishment on their ...

A fuel tank exploded in Moamer Kadhafi`s hometown Sirte killing more than 100 people less than a week after the ...

Government troops on Saturday shot dead a prominent activist in eastern Syria who helped organise peaceful ...

Amnesty International called on Canadian authorities Wednesday to arrest and prosecute George W. Bush, saying the ...

Sri Lanka today announced the lifting of the state of emergency imposed nearly 30 years ago to confront the threat ...

Watchdog Reporters Without Borders called on Vietnam to halt a "dangerous" trend in "Chinese-style" censorship after a ...