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Outrage grows in India over gang-rape on bus
The hours-long gang-rape and near-fatal beating of a 23-year-old student on a bus in New Delhi triggered outrage and anger across the country ...
US reimburses Pakistan $688 million
The United States has decided to reimburse Pakistan $688 million for the cost of providing support for some 140,000 troops on the border with ...
Gunmen kill 5 female polio workers in Pakistan
Gunmen shot dead five women working on U.N.-backed polio vaccination efforts in two different Pakistani cities on Tuesday, officials said, a major ...
Car bomb kills 17 people in market in Pakistan
A car bomb exploded in a crowded market in Pakistan's troubled northwest tribal region near the Afghan border Monday, killing 17 people and wounding ...
On foreign policy, Kerry is Obama's good soldier
Democratic Sen. John Kerry stands tall as President Barack Obama's good soldier. The Massachusetts lawmaker has flown to Afghanistan and Pakistan ...
Family attends duped nurse's funeral in India
Family and friends of the nurse found hanging in her room days after she had been duped by a royal hoax call from Australian DJs gathered in a church ...
Gunbattle follows airport attack in Pakistan
Pakistani security forces cornered the last members of a group of Taliban militants who staged a deadly raid on an airport in the country's troubled ...
Italian defense minister visits detained Marines
Italian defense minister traveled to southern India on Sunday to meet two Italian Marines detained for the deaths of two fishermen, stepping up ...
Militants attack airport in NW Pakistan; 9 killed
Suicide bombers armed with rockets attacked the military side of a Pakistani airport in the northwestern city of Peshawar Saturday, killing four ...
Italy decries India's delay over jailed marines
Italy is expressing "deep disappointment" over the delay by India's supreme court in the case of two Italian marines detained since February for the ...
Sitar maker: Ravi Shankar's legacy inspires others
The walls of Sanjay Sharma's music shop are lined with gleaming string instruments and old photographs of legendary musicians. Beatles George ...
Gas shortage exposes Pakistan's energy crisis
It has become a familiar sight across Pakistan in recent weeks: Long lines of cars and minibuses snaking for hundreds of yards as their frustrated ...
Inquest: Nurse in British royal hoax found hanging
A nurse was found hanging in her room three days after she had been duped by a hoax call from Australian DJs about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge, ...
Pentagon warns of higher bomb threat in drawdown
American and coalition forces in Afghanistan will be more vulnerable to deadly improvised explosive devices as the military draws down troops next ...
Pakistan extends refugee status for Afghans
Pakistan has extended refugee status for over a million Afghans in the country by an additional six months, the government announced — a move likely ...
Swedish volunteer dies after Pakistan shooting
Sweden's government says an elderly Swedish woman who was shot by a gunman while working as a volunteer in Pakistan has died from her wounds.
Rights group accuses Pakistani military of abuse
Amnesty International accused the Pakistani military on Thursday of carrying out widespread human rights abuses in the country's northwest tribal ...
Pakistanis against naming college after shot girl
A Pakistani government official says several hundred students have rallied against naming their college after an activist schoolgirl shot by the ...
Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar dies at 92
The kids at first didn't seem to know how to respond as Ravi Shankar began his four-hour set on the final afternoon of the Monterey Pop Festival, in ...
Report: Most Pakistani lawmakers do not file taxes
The majority of Pakistani lawmakers do not file tax returns despite a legal requirement to do, a report said Wednesday, reinforcing concerns about the ...
Afghanistan, Pakistan pursue peace despite attack
The leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan are determined to press ahead with peace efforts after a meeting in Turkey, the country's president said ...
Correction: US-Bangladesh-Factory Fire-Retailers
In a story Dec. 11 about the clothing industry's efforts to avoid factory fires, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of the head of vendor ...
Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar dies
Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar has died. He was 92. The prime minister's office confirmed his death and called him a "national treasure." Shankar ...
France trying to reconcile Afghan rivals
France is trying to ease tensions in Afghanistan by talking to conflicting parties and sees Pakistan as key to stabilizing the region, the country's ...