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ECHR's verdict could provide decisive, peaceful resolution to Europe's longest-running armed conflict, says Asier Odriozola.

Human Rights Watch says strikes in North Waziristan claimed innocent lives.

Five Tibet activists unfurl huge protest banner down main United Nations building in Geneva.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator no longer realms of science fiction, watchdog warns UN.

Denying Basque militants right to "earn" shorter jail sentences against international law, says European Court of Human Rights

Rights groups claim pipeline from western Myanmar has caused land grabs, labour abuses, pollution and ethnic conflicts.

China's booming arms sales underpinned by discount model and Beijing's willingness to sell weapons to risky recipients.

Andres Conteris sticks tube up nose in aid of terror suspects in Guantánamo Bay.

Almost 2,000 police guarded 150 Montenegrins taking part in first gay pride march in Podgorica.

Scribes told to take on US, Japan, Philippines and Vietnam, and praise Russia.

Doctor claims snipers in Syria bet cash and cigarettes on shooting unborn babies.

US paper commissioned then refused to publish documentary on Israel extremism.

Head of Syria's military intelligence killed during clashes between regime forces and al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra.

Saudi Arabia's election to the two-year UNSC membership had sparked condemnation from rights groups.

The Court of Cassation in Paris fined Scientology €600,000 for taking advantage of vulnerable believers.

Highest court in UK throws out legal challenge for killers.

Russia's homophobia problem is assuming ever more nightmarish proportions, says Larry Poltavtsev.

Prisoners find out if Supreme Court backs them in legal fight to vote in elections

1200 Muslim migrant workers in Biryulyovo district have been held after murder of ethnic Russian Yegor Shcherbakov.

Sharan Burrow, of the International Trade Union Confederation, says Qatar's abhorrent treatment of foreign labourers demands a fresh vote at once.

Khamenei takes swipe at Hawkish Obama before nuclear talks.

More than a thousand Muslim migrant workers in Biryulyovo district arrested after murder of ethnic Russian man Yegor Shcherbakov.

Amnesty said the proposal to introduce compulsory medical tests and bar migrant workers deemed to be "homosexual" or transgender was "outrageous"

Managers and workers also arrested and sent for forensic anal examinations.

Washington accused of conspiracy to sink migrant boat off Sicilian coast.

Claims of fraud and vote rigging as president Ilham Aliyev prepares for landslide victory.

Tibet's exiled rights groups say many injured in security forces crackdown in Dathang, Biru County

Court finds activist guilty of involvement in mass protest on eve of Putin's inauguration.

What, or rather who, is the link between the small town of Muscatine, Iowa, and Zhengding County, Hebei, China?

EXCLUSIVE: Riots erupt at refugee camps during vigil to commemorate Lampedusa refugee deaths