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US President Barack Obama’s refusal to veto a defense spending bill restricting detainee transfers from Guantanamo undercuts his pledge to close the prison, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.

The Thai government should immediately halt its plan to deport 73 ethnic Rohingya back to Burma, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.

UNAMID police personnel Qasim Al-Sarhan (centre) and Hasan Al-Mazawdeh (right), abducted in North Darfur, were freed after 136 days in captivity.

Residential buildings rise up across the Dnieper River from the Monastery of the Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.

Dunja Mijatović, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, addresses the OSCE Permanent Council at the Hofburg in Vienna, 29 November 2012.

A ceremony is held marking the official hand-over of policing responsibilities from the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) to the Polícia Nacional de Timor-Leste (PNTL) in Ainaro District.

Tamils living in the North and East have a complained of the loss of all their rights. Most people in the South ignored these complaints. Some even said that such deprivations are punishments for what the LTTE was. The assumption was that such treatment would not be extended to the South.

Sisters Tamara and Eilada fled their village in Syria but now have a chance to continue their studies in Turkey.

Executive Director of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Anthony Lake.