HUMAN RIGHTS

Lawmakers are steeling for a public battle against the possible transfer of Taliban detainees out of Guantanamo Bay prison, a key step in the Obama administration's bid to broker a peace deal ending the war in Afghanistan.

The United States, European governments and Arab states have begun discussing the possibility of exile for Bashar al-Assad despite skepticism that the defiant Syrian president is ready to consider such an offer, Western officials say.

South Korean authorities arrested a 24-year-old South Korean man for retweeting a message about Kim Jong Il, the late North Korean dictator. Amnesty International is backing the young man's case, stating that the South Korean government doesn't understand sarcasm.

There are now more than 26,000 prisoners above age 65. There are more than 124,000 prisoners age 55 or older.

Lawmakers are considering a bid to force President Barack Obama's administration to blacklist Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in an effort to thwart Tehran's nuclear capabilities, a congressional aide said on Wednesday.

Amnesty said that Park may be looking at seven years in jail.

They had fled the recent civil war in Sri Lanka between Tamils and the Sinhalese.

Four South African men were sentenced to 18 years in prison for the murder of a lesbian woman in Cape Town.

The Senate Banking Committee is proposing news sanctions on Iran in an effort to stall its nuclear ambitions.

They are now facing deportation, even though some of the Ethiopians have legally resided in Saudi Arabia for as long as 16 years.

The husband is also reportedly a member of an illegal militant gang that enjoys some political support in the area.

More than a year after a wave of popular uprisings swept across the Arab world, the White House spent Monday responding to the chaos the Arab Spring has unleashed in Syria and Egypt.

Southeast Asian carriers are set to profit from the expected surge in the number of leisure and business travellers to Myanmar as it re-emerges from political isolation.

Travelers hoping to catch a glimpse of the glittering Shwedagon Pagoda or hear the tinkly temple-bells of Kipling's Road to Mandalay might one day be able to book into a Westin or a Marriott, thanks to Myanmar's emergence from political isolation.

Mustapha had served as Abacha’s chief of security and has always maintained his innocence

Although honor killings are typically associated with Muslim countries like Turkey, Iraq and especially Pakistan, the practice has nothing to do with Islam

Free Syrian Army fighting President Assad's forces withdraw from eastern suburbs of Damascus after two days of fighting.

Armored forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad took control Sunday of eastern suburbs of Damascus from opposition fighters after two days of bombardment and fighting with rebels, activists said Sunday night.

Around 2,000 Syrian troops backed by tanks launched an assault to retake Damascus suburbs from rebels Sunday, activists said, a day after the Arab League suspended its monitoring mission in Syria because of worsening violence.

The building took three years to construct and involved 1,200 Chinese and Ethiopian workers.

The Arab League said on Saturday it had suspended its monitoring mission in Syria because of the critical deterioration of the situation as state security forces battled rebels holding three suburbs just outside Damascus.