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Swiss nuke smugglers who aided CIA avoid more jail
Three Swiss engineers accused of participating in a global nuclear smuggling ring are set to avoid further prison time, in part because they helped ...
Pakistan: 2 bomb blasts kill 6 people in Karachi
Two bombs minutes apart ripped through a market in southern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least six people and wounding 15 others, police said.
Pakistani PM agrees to court demand in graft case
Pakistan's prime minister told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the government would comply with a longstanding demand to reopen an old corruption ...
Hezbollah leads massive anti-US protest in Lebanon
In a rare public appearance, the leader of the militant Hezbollah group exhorted hundreds of thousands of supporters Monday to keep up the campaign ...
India central bank cuts cash reserve ratio
India's central bank Monday cut the cash reserve ratio as it tries to kick-start flagging growth and welcomed government efforts to open Asia's ...
Pakistan journalists' choice: Face death, or jail
The telephone call to local journalists generally comes in the late evening. The voice on the other end is harsh. He has a statement he wants printed, ...
Clashes over prophet film; Hezbollah urges demos
Hundreds of Pakistanis protesting an anti-Islam film broke through a barricade near the U.S. Consulate in the southern city of Karachi on Sunday, ...
Multiple personalities of the Muslim rage
At the height of the latest Islamic rage, one of the Muslim world's first media-celebrity imams told worshippers they were indeed witnessing a clash ...
Police: Roadside bomb kills 15 in NW Pakistan
A roadside bomb ripped through a minibus in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border Sunday, killing 15 passengers and wounded 12 others, police ...
India agrees to let in foreign retailers, again
India agreed Friday to open its huge market to foreign retailers such as Wal-Mart in a surprising decision that was part of a flurry of economic ...
Pakistan factory owners in deadly blaze get bail
A Pakistani court granted bail to three owners of a garment factory in the southern city of Karachi where a fire this week killed 258 people, a ...
US hostage appeals for family help in new video
An elderly American aid worker kidnapped over a year ago in Pakistan is asking his family to get Jewish communities in the United States to pressure ...
Change of Pakistan's blasphemy laws unlikely
The apparent collapse of a case against a Christian girl accused of burning pages of a Quran has given a dim ray of hope to critics of Pakistan's ...
Security boosted at US sites after Libya attack
U.S. embassies across the world ramped up security Thursday following an attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya, as Muslims angry over an ...
Farmers angry at counterterror tactic in Pakistan
Pakistan's effort to cut off the flow of fertilizer to militants using it to make bombs in this key tribal sanctuary along the Afghan border has ...
After Pakistan fire, police probe factory owners
Pakistani police registered a murder case against the owners and managers of a garment factory in the southern city of Karachi after a fire swept ...
Child deaths fell below 7 million in 2011
The number of children under the age of five who die annually fell to less than 7 million in 2011, but around 19,000 boys and girls around the world ...
Pakistan fires kill 283, lax safety laws blamed
Fires at two clothing factories in Pakistan left 283 people dead — many trapped behind locked doors and barred windows — tragedies that highlight ...
Perceived insults to Islam trigger Muslim anger
Muslim anger over perceived Western insults to Islam has exploded several times, most recently in protests this week against U.S. diplomatic posts in ...
Deadly factory fires in 2 Pakistani cities kill 85
Factory fires that broke out in two major cities in Pakistan killed 85 people and injured dozens more, including some who had to break through barred ...
Pakistan Shiites face rising militant attacks
In the Shiite Muslim graveyard of this provincial Pakistani capital, entire sections are dedicated to the hundreds killed by Sunni militants over the ...
Sri Lankan diamond saga: Swallowed gem was fake
Sri Lanka's diamond-swallowing saga took an unexpected turn Tuesday when police revealed the stone swallowed by a visitor at a gem exhibition was a ...
Car bomb kills 12 Shiites in northwest Pakistan
A car bomb ripped through a crowded market in a Pakistani tribal region bordering Afghanistan on Monday, killing 12 Shiite Muslims in the latest ...
Political cartoonist jailed in India sedition case
A political cartoonist whose drawings mock Indian government corruption has been jailed in a sedition investigation that was widely condemned Monday ...
Indian hospital hires bouncers to deter attacks
Pradeep Kumar, a muscular man in shades and tattoos, pulls up on a motorcycle, ready for his job as a bouncer. Not at a nightclub, but at another ...