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Shackled to a shrine for being mentally ill
3:00 AM | JALALABAD: The young man sits nearly naked in a small concrete room, a thick, heavy chain fastened around his ankle and bolted to the wall. Flies swarm around a wound on his wrist where shackles have rubbed the skin raw.
Militarising Cocos Islands will be betrayal, says former ambassador
17 May 12 | DEFENCE'S plans to develop the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean as a base for Australian and US spy drones and aircraft run counter to assurances Canberra has given the United Nations, one of Australia's most senior foreign policy figures has warned.
16 May 12 | An Australian man has reportedly died in a hotel room in Colombia.
16 May 12 | INDONESIA'S national police will ban pop diva Lady Gaga from performing in Jakarta because they say her show poses a threat to security and morality.
Canberra 'must pick strategic godfather'
16 May 12 | AUSTRALIA must find a ''godfather'' to protect it and cannot juggle its relationships with the US and China indefinitely, according to a prominent Chinese defence strategist.
Ex-Murdoch chief faces phone-hack charges
16 May 12 | FORMER chief executive of News International Rebekah Brooks has been charged by British prosecutors with trying to cover up the tabloid phone-hacking scandal.
EU council attacks Israeli settlements
16 May 12 | Israel's accelerated program of settlement construction - considered illegal under international law - was threatening to 'make a two-state solution impossible', the European Union Foreign Affairs Council has warned.
Jailed executives are Chinese, Carr told
15 May 12 | BEIJING: The three Australians sentenced to long jail terms in China - Stern Hu, Matthew Ng and Charlotte Chou - were in effect considered Chinese nationals by the Chinese government, despite holding Australian passports, the Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, said.
Sea Shepherd leader held
15 May 12 | Paul Watson was arrested in Germany, on a warrant from Costa Rica, over a 2002 incident.
Extremists attack visiting voices in Indonesia
15 May 12 | Indonesia's national police are considering banning a performance next month by pop diva Lady Gaga in the face of threats of violence by Islamic extremists.
14 May 12 | An Iraqi woman murdered at home had suffered for years at the hands of her jealous husband, a court has been told.
14 May 12 | THE Queen may not remain head of state in an independent Scotland after one of the Scottish National Party's most senior MPs confirmed it is party policy to hold a referendum on the monarchy.
Dalai Lama warned of Chinese poison plot
14 May 12 | NEW DELHI: The Dalai Lama has revealed his fears after being warned that Chinese agents have hatched a plot to kill him.
14 May 12 | A Scottish National Party's senior parliamentarian confirms it is policy to hold a referendum.
Bali nine inmate's final plea to escape death
13 May 12 | Death-row Bali nine inmate Andrew Chan has filed his plea for clemency with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, with lawyers asking the President to grant the drug courier ''a chance to have a new life''.
New terrorism etiquette
13 May 12 | Lone jihadists have been directed to follow a new code of etiquette when launching terrorist attacks, according to the latest edition of the al-Qaeda-affiliated online magazine, Inspire.
12 May 12 | AS DETECTIVES narrow their hunt for the killer of Brisbane mother Allison Baden-Clay, her husband, Gerard, has bunkered down in his parents' home and is yet to make a plea to help catch her killer.
12 May 12 | BOB CARR says he will seek to broaden ties with China beyond a purely "transactional economic agenda" in his first visit as Foreign Affairs Minister.
Hollande warns Merkel over new austerity package
12 May 12 | BRUSSELS: Francois Hollande has threatened to block the eurozone's new financial treaty unless Germany agrees to renegotiate its stringent austerity measures.
12 May 12 | Corruption is allowing a small army of the desperate to be exploited.
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