Hilary Swank's publicity firm fired the actress after she made headlines for receiving money from Chechen autocrat Ramzan Kadyrov to attend his birthday party on Oct. 5, Entertainment Weekly reported Friday.
Following a day of major political clashes leading to the death of seven people, the Syrian government has called on insurgents to turn themselves in within a week to receive amnesty.
Libya's new interim prime minister, Abdurrahim el-Keib was a professor of electrical engineering and an entrepreneur who had to live in exile for 10 years because of pressure from the late Moammar Gadhafi's regime over his political views.
Although a strenuous debate led the Obama administration to tighten requirements for striking suspected militants with unmanned drones, the Central Intelligence Agency retains broad authority to carry out such strikes, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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The fallout from Hilary Swank's birthday visit to Chechen president and alleged human rights abuser Ramzan Kadyrov continues.
The Supreme Court of Canada blocked on Thursday the extradition to the United States of Abdullah Khadr, a Canadian wanted by Washington on terrorist charges
Police failed to lift road blockades stopping fuel and food reaching Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold's mining operations in Indonesia's Papua region, after clashes with striking miners and local tribesmen on Friday.
Chinese mining companies in Zambia, Africa's biggest copper producer, are routinely flouting laws designed to protect workers' safety and the right to organise, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday.
The United States agreed to a compromise allowing Zimbabwe to export diamonds that human rights groups say are tainted by abuses, to prevent the paralysis of the global system for stopping trade in blood diamonds, the State Department said on Wednesday.
The International Criminal Court is still receiving information that Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam may try to flee Libya with the help of mercenaries, the court's chief prosecutor said on Wednesday.
Abuse of Zambian workers is widespread in mines owned by Chinese companies, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch.
A new report from Essex County reveals instructors urging LGBT students targeted by bullies to combat the abuse by acting less gay. Information packets and conferences are being put in place to educate new instructors, but activists say victim-blaming, not ignorance, is the motivating factor behind the teachers' shocking advice.
He added that Europeans who donate money to PKK share in the responsibility for the killings of innocent civilians.
The Syrian army's attempt to suppress a months-old popular uprising have increasingly involved Lebanon, a destination for fleeing dissidents and a country whose politics are deeply intertwined with the Syrian regime.
The glamorous and easy-going Riviera resort of Cannes turns into a fortified camp this week as French police prepare for the arrival of world leaders for a G20 summit set to be hijacked by fears that a euro zone crisis relief plan is unraveling.
Hilary Swank was paid a six-figure sum to attend an event celebrating the rebuilding of the downtown commercial hub of formerly war-torn Grozny and not the birthday party of Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov, an individual close to the actress said.
Fears grew at the time that the disturbances were largely organized by youths using their mobile phones.
Nigerian legislators started hearings this week on a bill that would criminalise same-sex marriage and could make it punishable by five years in jail.
Thousands of Egyptians protested on Monday in Tahrir Square, the epicentre of an uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak this year, after a prominent activist was detained by military prosecutors.
President Ollanta Humala, who took office in July, is trying to ramp up social spending to fight poverty without scaring away investors in Peru, one of the world's fastest-growing economies.
Multiple Fortune 100 companies were the victims of a coordinated series of cyber attacks dubbed Nitro, says security firm Symantec Corp. At least 48 firms - all of which are involved in the chemical and defense industries - were subject to the attack, which has been traced back to a computer system owned by a man in his twenties working out of northern China.
