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Beijing has freed a Tibetan activist which human rights groups say could be China's longest-serving political prisoner.

The father of an American missionary held hostage in the Philippines has accused the Abu Sayyaf of reneging on a deal to free his son and daughter-in-law.

Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf has reportedly offered to negotiate the release of two Americans and a Filipino nurse it has held hostage for more than 11 months.

The Philippine extremist group Abu Sayyaf has described a wave of bombings in the country's southern city of General Santos as a mere warm up.

A senior official in the Afghan interim administration said her government was not completely satisfied with the level of support it was getting from the Bush administration and the international community, and pressed for more assistance.

An alliance of Pakistani political parties has added its voice to condemnation of President General Perves Musharraf's plan to use a referendum to stay in power.

Hundreds of U.S. and coalition forces Monday stepped up the search through eastern Afghanistan along the Pakistan border to track down suspected al Qaeda troops, U.S. officials said

Terrorist network al Qaeda has infiltrated and is funding violent local conflicts throughout Southeast Asia, according to senior intelligence officials in two southeast Asian countries.

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has ordered increased security forces sent to the southern city of General Santos after Sunday's bomb explosion at a shopping mall that left 14 people dead.

Under the cover of darkness, a North Korean scaled the concrete wall of the German Embassy in Beijing to seek safe passage to South Korea, diplomatic sources have said.

International pressure is continuing to mount on Australia over its practice of mandatory detention for all asylum seekers arriving at its shores.

International pressure is continuing to mount on Australia over its practice of mandatory detention for all asylum seekers arriving at its shores.

Australia will consider extending its ban on semi-automatic and automatic weapons to handguns following the Erfurt massacre in Germany at the weekend.

The raising of pets was considered a bourgeois crime only 25 years ago during China's Cultural Revolution, but now it is a legal, if not costly, popular pastime.

China's top leaders are trying to reassure poor peasants in backwater provinces that they won't be forgotten in an era of fast-paced integration with the global marketplace.

It rates as among the world's most spectacular city skylines but, more often than not, the view of Hong Kong is obscured by a filthy haze.

A bomb blast in Indonesia's riot-scarred eastern Maluku islands has killed four people and injured 52, threatening a one-month-old peace deal struck between Muslims and Christians.

A bomb exploded near a Shiite mosque Thursday night, killing at least eight people and wounding at least 19 others, five of them seriously, police and hospital sources said.

On the annual Grave Sweeping Day many of China's families gather to sweep the burial sites of loved ones that have passed away.

The man most widely tipped to be China's next leader has said during an Asian tour it was unfair for the media to label him as mysterious.

China is estimating that 850,0000 people are infected with the HIV virus, a rise of more than a quarter a million over last year's figure.

China has cheered the U.N. silence on its human rights record at an annual rights meeting this week, saying the lack of a censure showed rising global recognition of Beijing's stand on rights.

Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh has ended a five-day visit to China with increased economic cooperation high on the agenda for improving bilateral ties between the two Asian giants.