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A lawyer for the jailed Pakistani doctor who helped the US track down former al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden has fled the country because of safety fears, a colleague and relatives said.

The Iranian foreign ministry has dismissed President Shimon Peres’s offer to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, AFP reported Tuesday.

Last month, the Russian government had high level talks with the Japanese, South Korean, Vietnamese, Egyptian and Serb governments, which indicate actual and potential gains, without seeming to lose anything.

Civil society groups promote the government’s plans and attack its opponents – raising doubts over their independence.

I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay, said former UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra dissolved parliament on Monday and called a snap election, but anti-government protest leaders pressed ahead with mass demonstrations seeking to install an unelected body to run the country.

The test flight of China’s first stealth drone, in November 2013, makes China leap from drones to combat drones.

Even cynics must admit that the time comes in international relations when long frozen situations suddenly thaw causing positive change for international peace and security.

Some babies diagnosed with and treated for a bone marrow failure disorder, called Diamond Blackfan Anemia, may actually be affected by a very rare anemia syndrome that has a different disease course and treatment, say scientists from Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer…

The family of the late President Nelson Mandela say they are humbled by the support they have received from President Jacob Zuma, the medical team that attended to Madiba and messages from all people in South Africa and abroad.

When Bengal was colonized by the East India Company in the second half of the 18th century, it was the richest jewel on the British crown.

The European Parliament is planning to hold a video conference with fugitive NSA analyst, Edward Snowden, concerning the US spying on European citizens, a source in the Assembly told RIA Novosti on Friday.

This allegation about Turkey having changed its past position on the ongoing crisis in Syria is based on the new approach that the Turkish government has taken to the Syrian government the most important highlights of which include:

A funeral cortege bearing Nelson Mandela’s body will travel through the streets of Pretoria daily on three days before his burial next Sunday, the South African government says.

US Vice-President Joe Biden concluded his Asia tour in South Korea on Friday following earlier meetings in Japan and China. Biden’s trip coincided with a moment of significant regional tension following China’s declaration last week of a new “Air Defense…

The scores are in from the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment, which, every three years, tests 15-year-olds from the world’s most advanced countries.

Ukraine’s three previous post-Soviet presidents have given their support to mass anti-government protesters.

A tiger that is believed to have killed three villagers in the past week in the southern Indian state of Karnataka has been caught, a senior official said.

The US remains “deeply concerned” about China’s new air defence identification zone, Vice-President Joe Biden has told Japanese PM Shinzo Abe.

The US has called for concerted effort at dialogue to bring the two major political parties of Bangladesh close together to find a way out for holding free, fair and peaceful elections there.

As we approach the 12th anniversary of the opening of the Bush administration’s “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (on January 11, 2014), it remains profoundly unacceptable that, of the remaining 164 prisoners, 84 were cleared for release…

The Internet has become a victim of its own success – its size and scope makes further development very difficult, holding back innovation.

A team of researchers are leading a ground-breaking study, which challenges the notion of the Renaissance as an era dominated by secular thinking.

The head of Switzerland’s banking regulatory body has issued a last-minute plea for Swiss banks to participate in a United States programme to reveal undeclared assets from American clients. But a prominent lawyer says many may not sign up.

Mention vuvuzela to soccer fans, and they may cringe.

Maldives finally managed to complete its presidential elections when last week Abdulla Yameen Gayoom, the half-brother of the country’s former strongman, defeated former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed, securing 51.3 per cent of the popular vote in a bitterly fought election.

What happens when you change a country’s name? Can you erase an unwanted past? Is changing the name a new beginning? Do the people in that country and their memories assume a new form? Perhaps that was what the junta…

Benedict XVI shocked the world in February when he became the first pope to resign in almost 600 years.

Sony’s PlayStation 4 was launched in the UK at midnight, two weeks after its US debut.