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Syria is ready to let Arab monitors extend their mission beyond this week, an Arab League source said, but U.S. ...

Police have denied allegations that two teenagers - Faisal Akbar (14) and Budri M Zain (18.

Amnesty International has urged the Indonesian government to provide protection for hundreds of Shiites who have been ...

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

The number of people killed in Syria following a crackdown on protesters since March has reached at least 4,000, the ...

President Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerrilla who was jailed and tortured during Brazil`s military ...

A poet and academic from Russia`s volatile region of Chechnya was found dead on Wednesday outside a Moscow apartment ...

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

The circumstances surrounding the death of Libya's ousted despot Moamer Kadhafi are unclear and an investigation is ...

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

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

Jakarta police have dealt with 304 criminal cases in operations pver the past nine days from October 1 to 9. ...

Syrian state television has aired an interview with a woman who had reportedly been found decapitated, armless and ...

A total of 82 journalists have been killed worldwide so far this year in the pursuit of their jobs, with Mexico being ...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flayed the West on Thursday for a catalogue of misdeeds, but his address to the ...