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Sixty countries attend Friends of Syria summit to press for end to hostilities and free access for humanitarian assistance.

The governments of US, France, Turkey and Italy are secretly preparing for a military intervention in Syria, an Israeli military intelligence website has claimed

International Red Cross asks Syrian regime and rebels to observe daily ceasefires to allow aid through to Homs.

Russia accuses the West of arming a military task force in Syria to strengthen the opposition and dramatizing Syria's internal affairs.

An US-based Christian evangelical organisation has actively lobbied for the re-introduction of the anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda, which was presented in the parliament Tuesday, according to local activists.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warned that Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad is "a dead-end street".

Speaking at the 48th Munich Security Conference in Germany, on Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, said Europe and Washington D.C. must work together to recover from the ongoing crisis and reassured European nations the U.S. would not turn away from the continent. The last point comes in the wake of U.S. President Barack Obama's focus on Asia.

Though the government denied any involvement in the violence, there was a war-like atmosphere in the city, according to civil rights groups.

Hillary Clinton hints she will step down at end of year as US secretary of state, claiming she is ready for a rest.

One year after killing of Ugandan gay activist David Kato, Africa still a long way from recognition of LGBT rights.

Burma has released 651 high-profile activists under a presidential pardon in a bid to boost reforms needed to end the country's long-standing isolation in the international community.

Iran boycott-busting firms in China, Singapore and UAE sanctioned by US.

World leaders gather in the Czech capital, Prague, for funeral of former president and leader of Velvet Revolution.

Hillary Clinton and former president Bill Clinton join David Cameron, Nicolas Sarkozy, Christian Wulff and former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright.

Nearly 10,000 female protesters converged on Tahrir Square holding out strongly-worded placards against the violence on protesters and also the images of the young woman who was severely assaulted.

Moscow is poised to host the biggest rally of its recent history as tens of thousands of Russians are expected to protest against the parliamentary election's results.

Israeli ministers reacted angrily after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was quoted saying she feared for the future democracy and the rights of women in Israel.

Former soviet leader claims the controversial election should be held again

Russian protesters who took the streets to protest against alleged election fraud at Sunday's parliamentary election have defied a ban on unapproved rallies and gathered in Moscow city centre.

The Russian government has sent police and interior ministry troops in Moscow after thousands of protesters took the streets Monday night accusing Putin's party of electoral fraud.

In unprecedented scenes, thousands of young Russians gathered in the streets Monday night, accusing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's party of manipulating this weekend's parliamentary election.

Burma's main opposition party, led by Nobel laureate and democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, announced that it will take part in Burmese elections.

The four-decade rule of Libyan autocrat, Col. Moammar Gadhafi finally came to an end on Thursday, after he was dragged from his hiding place - a drainpipe - in the town of Sirte and killed. However, there is growing international unease about increasingly graphic and disturbing images of the abuse of a body that appears to be Gadhafi's, following his capture and the fall of his hometown of Sirte on Thursday.

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The Palestinian Authority has won a first diplomatic victory after the country gained initial approval of a bid for full membership in UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, a move deemed "inexplicable" by the United States.

While Israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for a return to negotiation to try and prevent the Palestinian statehood bid from seeing light, recent settlements development prove that if peace will not come out of the UN it is even more unlikely to come from peace talks.

With a new attack in Afghanistan, this time directly targeting the U.S. compound, the blame game between Pakistan and America seems to have resumed.

The Palestinian statehood bid at the United Nations is threatening to turn into a real diplomatic incident as supporters and opponents battle over whether or not Palestinian leaders should go ahead with the move.

Younis al-Mauritani, a senior al-Qaeda commander, who experts say acted as the organisation's "foreign minister", has been captured by Pakistani security forces working together with the CIA, the Pakistani army said on Monday.