washingtonFree them or put them on trial. This urges a petition to President Barack Obama over the prisoners held at Guantanamo, jailed and in limbo for more than a decade.The petition launched by Guantanamo's former chief military prosecutor Colonel Morris Davis was signed by more than 137,400 ...

MANILA - Philippine President Benigno Aquino may continue to carry a gun despite an impending ban on bearing firearms in the run-up to polls, an election official said on Saturday. Gun ownership is a sensitive topic in the Philippines, where calls are growing for tighter controls or an outright ban ...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has joined an international outcry as Myanmar rulers extended the house arrest of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, vowing to work to get her and other political detainees released. "I regret the decision of the government of Myanmar to extend for a sixth consecutive year ...