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Venezuelan political journalist murdered

Venezuelan police found the murdered body of a newspaper columnist and opposition political activist dumped on ...

News Focus: RI seeking UN rights council membership for third time

Acclaimed as being the third largest democratic country in the world with high commitment to respect for human ...

Bring back waterboarding, says Cheney

Harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding played a role in tracking down Osama bin Laden and should be ...

Bin Laden death rekindles torture debate

Osama bin Laden`s death has reignited debate over the George W. Bush administration`s use of harsh interrogation ...

European discomfort grows about Bin Laden killing

European happiness with the death of Osama bin Laden was tempered on Wednesday by details showing he was unarmed when ...

Civilian deaths in Syria protests rise to 500-group

Syrian security forces have killed at least 500 civilians in a crackdown on a "peaceful democratic uprising", Syrian ...

Thousands chant anti-Assad slogans at Syria funeral

Thousands of Syrian mourners chanted slogans calling for the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday at the ...

Gunmen kill 10 road workers in Pakistan

Gunmen on motorbikes shot dead 10 road construction workers on Monday in the restive southwest of Pakistan before ...

Yemen seethes as death toll climbs to 52

Yemenis seethed with anger as medics raised the death toll from a sniper attack on protesters to 52 and thousands ...

Indonesian worker dies in Syria

An Indonesian domestic worker from Sukabumi district, West Java province, died in Syria earlier this week, a labor ...

RI embassy in Riyadh issues New Work contract

The Indonesian embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has issued a new work contract for Indonesian migrant workers and ...

Egypt arrests 47 officers for destroying documents

Egypt has ordered the arrest of 47 state security officers accused of burning documents, in a bid to placate ...

Indonesian Worker Dies In Hong Kong

A female migrant worker from Tunggur village, Lembeyan subdistrict, Magetan district, East Java, died of sickness in ...

Temanggung riot suspects still being grilled

Police are still interrogating 22 suspects in the recent sectarian riot in Temanggung, Central Java. "The 22 ...

Two Myanmar refugees get intensive treatment in Aceh

Two of 129 rescued Myanmar`s refugees at Aceh Besar district in Aceh Province on Tuesday were given intensive medical ...