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1,200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have gone on a hunger strike on Tuesday, National Prisoner's Day, to protest Israel's practice of administrative detention and the intolerable treatment in Israeli jails.

Barely minutes after takeoff, North Korea's rocket exploded scattering debris over the Yellow Sea, triggering an international search as the US and other countries believe that the debris could be a mine of information to assess the reclusive country's nuclear and missile capabilities.

Rights groups also demanded Bajadi’s immediate release and called for a fair public trial for the activist.

The Israeli military evicted a group of Israeli settlers from a two-story house in the West Bank city of Hebron on Wednesday afternoon.

A major U.S. airline lobbying group on Tuesday ditched a private lawsuit challenging the European Union's recently-implemented carbon tax for airlines using the trading bloc's airports, calling on the Obama administration and Congress to take up the charge.

Google rushed out its panoramic Street View maps in Thailand on Friday as part of the country's efforts to show tourist hot spots have recovered from last year's floods.

Israel severed ties Monday with the United Nations Human Rights Council after it voted to initiate an investigation into human rights abuses in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said the Obama administration has failed to live up to goal of being the most transparent administration ever during an executive meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Lawyers for the family of a man killed in a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan said they would begin legal action against Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague on Monday, accusing him of complicity in strikes they say broke international laws.

The result should clear the way for the European Union and International Monetary Fund to release a 130 billion euro bailout package agreed with Greece in February.

Greece had until Thursday afternoon to persuade at least 70 percent of private holders of its government debt to accept a swap that includes losses of up to 74 percent.

China has blocked purchases of Airbus planes by Chinese companies in reaction to a controversial European carbon tax, the CEO of Airbus parent European Aeronautic Defense & Space Co. NV (Paris: EAD) said Thursday.

Greece moved closer on Thursday to concluding a bond swap deal with private creditors that it desperately needs to stave off a messy default and buy time to repair its exhausted economy.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he had received grisly reports that Syrian government forces were arbitrarily executing, imprisoning and torturing people in the battle-scarred city of Homs after rebel fighters had fled.

A Red Cross aid convoy prepared to enter the shattered Baba Amro district of the city of Homs, Syria, on Friday after a government official declared the area cleansed and the opposition spoke of a massacre by President Bashar al-Assad's forces. Rebels withdrew Thursday in a key moment in the year-old uprising.

Iran, faced with global trade embargoes and a possible attack by Israel on its nuclear installations, has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz.

Thursday's statement marks the first by the Security Council relating to Syria in seven months, after previous efforts were blocked by Russia and China.

The Baroness Jenny Tonge resigned from the Liberal Democrat whip over controversial comments she made about Israel.

An international legal panel based in the Netherlands has decided that it has jurisdiction over a pollution case in Ecuador brought by aboriginals against California-based Chevron. The panel could void damages awarded in the case.