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Corby refuses to be moved from Kerobokan penitentiary

Schapelle Leigh Corby, the Australian prisoner over a narcotics case, has refused to be moved from the Kerobokan ...

US backs humanitarian ceasefire in Syria

The United States supports calls for a humanitarian ceasefire in Syria to bring relief to civilians caught up in a ...

30 killed in attack on Nigeria market: medic, witness

Suspected Nigerian Islamists opened fire and set off bombs at a market in the northeastern city of Maiduguri on ...

Floods in urban areas said to increase poverty in East Asia-Pacific

The World Bank has stated that flooding in urban areas and cities creates a higher risk of increasing poverty in the ...

Al Shabaab rebels ban red cross in Somalia

Al Shabaab rebels in Somalia have expelled the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from areas they control ...

US Hillary Clinton says tired of publicity

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told her State Department employees that she was ready to be out of the public ...

Suicide attack kills four in Afghan city, wounds 34

A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in the southern Afghan city of Lashkar Gah on Thursday, killing at least ...

RI women should stop working in informal sector abroad : Minister

Women`s Empowerment and Children Protection Minister Linda Gumelar said Indonesian women migrant workers should no ...

Mogadishu fighting kills at least 9 Somalis

Somali militants firing vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft guns clashed with African Union forces for a second night in ...

Suicide attack kills seven at Afghan airport

A suicide bomber killed at least seven people and wounded eight Thursday in an attack at Kandahar international ...

Police act to prevent renewed anti-Shiite conflict in Sampang

Police and Mobile Brigade (Brimob) personnel on Wednesday conducted a house-to-house search for sharp weapons in ...

US troubled at `alarming` attacks in S. Sudan

The United States voiced concern Tuesday at the latest deadly inter-ethnic clashes in South Sudan, which it said had ...

US Marine said "shoot first, ask later" in Iraq slayings

A US Marine ordered his men to "shoot first and ask questions later," triggering one of the Iraq war's most ...

Indonesia successfully takes ASEAN to greater height

When Indonesia assumed the ASEAN chairmanship in January 2011, ASEAN Secretary General Dr Surin Pitsuwan expressed ...

White House denounces suicide bombings in Afghanistan

The United States "strongly condemns" the two suicide bombings on Tuesday that left at least 59 people dead and 154 ...