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We are looking at time frame that is just enough to conduct elections and get out. If it requires two weeks let them conduct the elections and get out," he added.     The minister said Nigeria would never condone coups in...

In what lawyers described as a landmark decision, a court in Malaysia on Friday freed one of the country's best known bloggers, ruling that the government was wrong in detaining him under a draconian internal security law. Raja Petra Kamarudin, who...

Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim does not see the two recent court decisions on Friday as the start of a judicial renaissance. “I won’t get over-excited by declaring these signals a start of a judicial renaissance,” he said. He...

A court ordered the authorities to free Raja Petra Kamaruddin, Malaysia's best-known opposition blogger, saying there were not sufficient grounds for his arrest. Raja Petra is a leading light in Malaysia's opposition movement, and for years he has used his...

An occurrence of infectious salmon anaemia (Isa) has been confirmed at one salmon farm and is also suspected at two further sites in the Burra area, west of Shetland...The Scottish Government has set up a national disease control centre and...

Tarceva significantly extended the time patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer lived without their cancer getting worse when given immediately following initial treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy, compared to placebo...Briefing.com is the leading Internet provider of...

Nigeria's president Umaru Yar'Adua has instructed lawyers to sue the Lagos-based newspaper Leadership after it reported that he had been taken ill and failed to attend public functions. A spokesman said the report was false and the president had no...