The Iraqi government Sunday urged Iraqis to vote in the upcoming October 15 constitutional referendum and condemned insurgent groups for trying to reduce voter turnout. Iraqi government spokesman Laith Kuba said...
The UN Refugee Agency has criticized Australia for its strict policy of detaining illegal immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, in comments before an Australian parliamentary inquiry. David Wright, a representative of the UN High...
The Indonesian government cannot ban Islamic militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI) because the government never formally acknowledged the group's existence, Vice President Yusuf Kalla said Sunday. Australia has called on Indonesia to outlaw the group ,...
The US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky has ruled that the Holy See is a foreign state subject to immunity protections of the 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act , placing limitations on...
The Indonesian government is reviewing a decree granting automatic sentence remissions to prisoners, Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda said Friday. The announcement follows protests from Australia over news that cleric Abu Bakir Bashir , convicted for his role in...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed that detainees are on hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba. The humanitarian agency, which made a 10-day visit to the US...
British lawyers representing Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks have threatened legal action to compel the UK Home Office to grant him citizenship. Hicks applied for British citizenship on the grounds that...
Victims of the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings are calling for the Indonesian government to immediately execute those in prison for carrying out the attacks. After new coordinated bombings in two tourist areas last...
French President Jacques Chirac said Tuesday at a Paris news conference that Turkey would need to make deep reforms in order to conform to fundamental European cultural standards - what...
A Bosnian government panel said Tuesday that over 19,000 Bosnian Serbs, including policemen, army officials and civilians, participated in the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre . The report is based on information gained from the Serb Republic's...
