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Sarkozy joins ex-French leaders under legal fire
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy follows in a long line of French leaders in the legal crosshairs. Voted out office in May, the 57-year-old ...
Taliban suicide bomber kills 23 in Pakistan
A Taliban suicide bomber struck a Shiite Muslim procession near Pakistan's capital, killing 23 people in the latest of a series of bombings targeting ...
Taliban demand India return Mumbai gunman's body
The Taliban threatened revenge Thursday unless India returns the body of a Pakistani man executed for his role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed ...
Pakistan: Malala's wounded friends back in school
For one month the dreams kept coming. The voice, the shots, the blood. Her friend Malala slumped over. Shazia Ramazan, 13, who was wounded by the same ...
Suicide bomber kills 23 people in Pakistan
A state rescue official says a suicide bomber has attacked a Shiite Muslim procession near Pakistan's capital, killing 23 people. Deeba Shahnaz says ...
India secretly hangs lone surviving Mumbai gunman
India secretly executed the lone surviving gunmen from the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, four years after Pakistani gunmen blazed through India's ...
Pakistan condemns Israeli 'aggression' in Gaza
Pakistan's foreign minister has condemned what he calls Israel's "aggression" against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Hina Rabanni Khar spoke ...
Courting Asia, Obama finds that the world intrudes
For all the attention wrenched elsewhere in recent days — on new violence in the Middle East, the "fiscal cliff" back home — President Barack Obama's ...
Myanmar says it's ready to sign nuclear agreement
Little noticed in the warm glow of President Barack Obama's landmark visit to Myanmar was a significant concession that could shed light on whether ...
Afghan president praises Pakistan prisoner release
Afghanistan's president praised Pakistan on Tuesday for releasing a group of Taliban prisoners, a move he hopes will kick start peace talks with the ...
Outrage in India over arrests for Facebook post
As India's financial capital shut down for the weekend funeral of a powerful politician linked to waves of mob violence, a woman posted on Facebook ...
Pakistan court acquits Christian girl of blasphemy
A Pakistani court on Tuesday acquitted a Christian girl accused of blasphemy over the burning of the Muslim holy book, her lawyer said. The ruling was ...
Obama makes history with Myanmar, Cambodia visits
On a history-making trip, President Barack Obama on Monday paid the first visit by an American leader to Myanmar and Cambodia, two Asian countries ...
Ireland: Experts to probe death of pregnant woman
Ireland formed an expert panel Monday to investigate why an Indian woman died in an Irish hospital — and whether her life might have been saved had ...
Myanmar or Burma? Obama calls it both on visit
Officially at least, America still calls this Southeast Asian nation Burma, the favored appellation of dissidents and pro-democracy activists who ...
WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama draws crowd in Yangon
Downtown Yangon came to a near halt Monday during President Barack Obama's historic visit to this once pariah nation. Crowds flooded the streets, ...
Myanmar frees political prisoners in new amnesty
Myanmar set free dozens of political prisoners Monday in an amnesty that coincided with the historic visit of President Barack Obama. At least 44 ...
Female bomber attacks major Pakistani politician
A government official says a female suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan detonated her explosives near the convoy of a former leader of the country's ...
Obama: Myanmar visit about sustaining momentum
In a historic trip to a long shunned land, President Barack Obama on Monday showered praise and promises of more U.S. help to Myanmar if the Asian ...
AP PHOTOS: Obama visits once-pariah state, Myanmar
President Barack Obama's historic visit to Myanmar on Monday is meant to show America's support for the country's transition to democracy. The White ...
Obama to speak at Myanmar campus scarred by past
The soldiers began to shoot students at Rangoon University at 6:30 p.m. Hla Shwe watched, cowering in a nearby building, as his friends died. "I heard ...
Myanmar announces new prisoner amnesty
Myanmar's leader has ordered a new prisoner amnesty ahead of a historic visit to the country by President Barack Obama on Monday. State television ...
Big funeral for India's Hindu extremist leader
Hundreds of thousands of grieving supporters thronged the streets of Mumbai on Sunday for the funeral of Bal Thackeray, a Hindu extremist leader ...
Obama: Myanmar trip not an endorsement of govt.
President Barack Obama says his landmark visit to Myanmar is an acknowledgement of the democratic transition underway but not an endorsement of the ...