US-BASED Human Rights Watch has slammed a Saudi Arabian court decision to drop charges against an employer accused of abusing an Indonesian maid so severely she lost her fingers and toes
A MOCK "Olympics" organised by Tibetan exiles kicked off in northern India today despite calls to halt anti-China protests as a mark of respect for earthquake victims
THE international community should back a $US50-billion Afghan development strategy at a donors` conference in Paris next month, but Kabul must also fight rampant corruption, the UN`s special envoy said. today