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KUANTAN A MALAYSIAN Muslim model who escaped caning for drinking beer gave herself up to religious authorities on Friday to... Read More →

WASHINGTON FRESH paedophilia cover-up claims hit Pope Benedict XVI as church files suggested he had failed to take action against... Read More →

WASHINGTON ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned home on Thursday having failed to resolve a bitter dispute with Washington over... Read More →

WASHINGTON TWO days after Google halted censorship in China, another leading US internet company, Go Daddy, said it was cutting... Read More →

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 →