ALKOZAI, Afghanistan: Sixteen Afghans including women and children were killed in their homes by a US soldier in a predawn rampage yesterday, plunging relations between the two countries into a…
PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral near the northwestern city of Peshawar yesterday, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 30 others, police and…
VADIA: Eight young women whose mothers are sex workers were married in a so-called “village of prostitutes” in India yesterday under a plan to save them from being pushed into…
SHANGHAI: Chinese police have shot dead four people suspected of making bombs in the far western region of Xinjiang, which has been beset by ethnic strife and violent unrest, Radio…
KALPANI BASE: The wind was howling and the snow outside their bullet-pocked bunker lay knee-deep as the men of the 20th Lancer armored regiment bedded down for the night, nearly…
SEOUL: China has repatriated all 31 North Korean refugees it arrested last month despite international pressure against the move, activists said yesterday, warning they could face severe punishment. Campaigners fear…
LONDON: Britain’s defense secretary insisted yesterday that the country’s troops are committed to their mission in Afghanistan, after the number of UK personnel killed in the conflict passed 400. Ministers…
NEW DELHI: Police arrested an Indian journalist to investigate possible links to the bombing of an Israeli diplomatic vehicle last month in New Delhi, authorities said yesterday, the first apparent…
DHAKA: A Saudi Arabian diplomat was shot in the chest and killed in an upmarket district of the Bangladeshi capital yesterday while taking a late-night walk near his home, police…
NEW DELHI: India’s ruling Congress party and its famed Gandhi political dynasty suffered a stinging election blow yesterday in crucial state polls. Figures showed Congress, which runs the federal government…