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WASHINGTON A GROUP of US senators has launched a bipartisan caucus aimed at promoting global internet freedom, saying the web – Read More...

JAKARTA INDONESIAN palm oil giant Sinar Mas rejected claims of environmental vandalism on Thursday after Nestle, the world’s biggest food – Read More...

WASHINGTON PRESIDENT Barack Obama has denied a crisis was rocking US-Israeli relations, as one of the worst rows in years – Read More...

BANGKOK THAILAND’S red-shirted rural underclass threatened on Thursday a new wave of crippling protests as it vied to rally Bangkok’s – Read More...

YANGON MYANMAR’S junta has allowed the party of Aung San Suu Kyi to reopen offices closed since 2003 as international – Read More...

CAIRO THERE should be no Israeli-Palestinian talks, direct or indirect, unless Israel halts plans to build 1,600 settler homes in – Read More...

ISLAMABAD AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai told Pakistan on Thursday his country did not want to become a battle ground for – Read More...

WASHINGTON PRESIDENT Barack Obama plans “dramatic reductions” in the country’s nuclear arsenal, a senior US official said this week, but – Read More...

WASHINGTON PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s administration moved to rein in America’s largest banks this week, sending Congress new rules blocking mega-mergers – Read More...

BAQUBA THREE suicide attacks, including one by a bomber who rode in an ambulance to hospital before blowing himself up, – Read More...