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Rising status of women, increased risk of smoking

Millions of women in developing countries risk disease and early death in the coming decades as the tobacco industry ...

UN suspends Libya fom human rights council

The United Nations suspended Libya`s membership in the UN Human Rights Council in an attempt to persuade the country`s ...

UN Assembly suspends Libya from human rights body

The U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday unanimously suspended Libya`s membership in the U.N. Human Rights Council because ...

China buys 653 Indonesian National Standard Rights

China has bought as many as 653 user rights on Indonesia`s National Standard (SNI) system in anticipation of the ...

"All My People Love Me," Kadhafi Says

"All my people love me," Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi insisted Monday, ignoring mounting global pressure to step ...

Iran arrests two opposition leaders - website

Iran has arrested opposition leaders Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi, the opposition website Kaleme said on ...

Mubarak`s deputy linked to secret CIA program

The man named by President Hosni Mubarak as his first ever deputy, Egyptian spy chief Omar Suleiman, reportedly ...

World leaders stop short in calling for Mubarak to step down

Prime Minister David Cameron has joined other world leaders in calling for a transition to democracy in Egypt but ...

Corruption continues to hamper RI`s progress

Although its goivernment has allocated huge sums to tackle such pressing problems aa financial market instability, ...

Tunisia`s Islamist leader returning from exile

Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia`s Islamist movement Ennahda, boarded a plane Sunday to return home from ...

UN Chief calls for restraint in deadly Egypt protests

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday called for restraint over the deadly political protests in Egypt that have ...

N Korea blasts Seoul for punishing a pastor for illegal Pyongyang trip

North Korea blasted South Korea Saturday for punishing a pro-unification pastor who illegally traveled to the ...

Obama meets security team on Egypt

US President Barack Obama met his national security team Saturday to discuss the Egypt crisis, and renewed his call on ...

Egypt mobile phone network resumes in capital

Mobile phone services started to resume across the Egyptian capital on Saturday, after being shut down a day earlier ...

Tunisia calm after government reshuffle

Calm returned to Tunisia`s capital Saturday a day after a new transition cabinet was sworn in and interim Prime ...