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Indonesia will host the Second Conference on Cooperation among East Asian Countries for Palestinian Development ...

The Surabaya Zoo in East Java, once the pride of Southeast Asia, has received worldwide attention after the deaths of ...

Leaders of the Commonwealth of mostly former British colonies gathered in Colombo on Friday for a biennial summit ...

- Dr. Rongxiang Xu, a Los Angeles resident, received the prestigious Scroll Award from the Los Angeles county ...

Amnesty International has accused Saudi Arabia of failing to live up to all promises to address the dire human rights ...

A play adaptation of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig`s novella "Letter From an Unknown Woman" will be performed on the ...

Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden applied Tuesday for temporary asylum in Russia, ending three weeks of ...

The Pentagon released Monday the names of Guantanamo Bay`s 46 "indefinite detainees," terror suspects considered too ...

More than 8,000 Kenyans are seeking millions of dollars (pounds/euros) in compensation from former colonial rulers ...

United Nations human rights investigators said on Tuesday they had "reasonable grounds" to believe that limited ...

Hollywood star Steven Seagal spent time on Wednesday with Ramzan Kadyrov, the former militant fighter who now heads ...

The International Labor Organization (ILO) is encouraging the Indonesian government to make an optimum use of ...

Up to 11,200 troops could be needed for a UN peacekeeping mission in Mali but a "parallel" military force will have to ...

The Obama administration on Monday urged both the Palestinians and the Israelis to exercise restraint as tensions were ...

A New Jersey man was arrested on Friday (Jan. 4) for offering to pay $5,000 to the so-called "cannibal cop" to kidnap ...