Tens of thousands of Muslims took to the streets again in India’s part of Kashmir, ignoring a plea by the country’s prime minister for an end to weeks of violence.
Tojo, who oversaw Japan’s military campaign during World War II, wanted to keep fighting even after atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a newly released diary reveals.
A strong aftershock struck Sichuan Province, where a May earthquake killed almost 70,000 people, hours after the Olympic torch relay passed through the area.
A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban warned the government on Tuesday to end a military crackdown against insurgents in the Swat Valley or face suicide bombings.
An explosion at a bridge killed at least six police officers in a valley where Pakistani security forces are battling Islamic militants, the police said Saturday.
Despite logistical obstacles, recovery and relief efforts are progressing well in the regions of Myanmar that were devastated by Cyclone Nargis in May, Unicef said.
The American military said that its airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan hit two vehicles carrying insurgents, while a provincial governor said that civilians had been killed.
North Korea said it would move to the next phase of the denuclearization process only when it has been awarded all the energy and political benefits it had been promised.
Abdul Qadeer Khan, the architect of Pakistan’s nuclear program, said that his country gave centrifuges to North Korea in a 2000 shipment supervised by the army.
One soldier from the military coalition led by the U.S. was killed and five others were wounded in Afghanistan’s increasingly turbulent west, the military said.
Militants attacked troops from the United States-led coalition who were patrolling south of the Afghan capital, killing three of them and an Afghan interpreter.
Militants ambushed troops patrolling in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, prompting a gun battle and airstrikes that left about 55 insurgents dead.
The United Nations said it would be forced to ground helicopters that had been ferrying aid to Myanmar’s cyclone survivors unless donors quickly provided more financing.
A series of battles between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka’s north and east left 11 separatists and four government soldiers dead, the military said.
A Pakistani militant leader said that he would maintain a cease-fire with Pakistan’s new government but would also keep fighting foreign forces in neighboring Afghanistan.
The Chinese bureaucracy is slowing efforts by the United States to increase safety monitoring of food and medicine destined for export to America, a top health official in Washington said Friday.
Pakistan’s army said it had lodged a formal protest with NATO forces in Afghanistan over what the army said was a United States missile strike this week.
Mr. Law was the handsome movie actor who captured attention as an angel in the futuristic “Barbarella” and a lovesick Russian seaman in “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming.”
The Dalai Lama criticized China’s suppression of unrest in Tibet and insisted that the region wanted to live in peace with China under genuine autonomy.
The suspected gunman in an assassination attempt on President José Ramos-Horta of East Timor wept on Tuesday after surrendering with 11 other mutinous soldiers and handing over their automatic weapons.
Vietnam announced that it was halting all United States adoptions after charges of pervasive corruption and baby-selling in the system by the United States Embassy in Hanoi.
Malaysia’s newly elected lawmakers took the oath of office to join a revamped Parliament that for the first time in 40 years has a huge opposition presence challenging the government’s power.
The police said four people in Tokyo and Yokohama had killed themselves Friday by inhaling hydrogen sulfide gas they produced by mixing detergent and a bath lotion.
The police said four people in Tokyo and Yokohama had killed themselves Friday by inhaling hydrogen sulfide gas they produced by mixing detergent and a bath lotion.
The Olympic torch relay ignited more protests on its troubled world tour on Friday, prompting demonstrations across this Japanese city despite the mobilization of thousands of riot police officers.
The Olympic torch relay ignited more protests on its troubled world tour on Friday, prompting demonstrations across this Japanese city despite the mobilization of thousands of riot police officers.
Vietnam has failed to police its adoption system, allowing corruption, fraud and baby-selling to flourish, according to a report by the United States Embassy there.
Vietnam has failed to police its adoption system, allowing corruption, fraud and baby-selling to flourish, according to a report by the United States Embassy there.
President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has abolished the bizarre calendar introduced by his late predecessor who lorded over Turkmenistan for two decades.
President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has abolished the bizarre calendar introduced by his late predecessor who lorded over Turkmenistan for two decades.
In one of the deadliest clashes between the Sri Lankan military and Tamil rebels this year, 52 guerrillas and 38 soldiers were killed on Wednesday, the military said.
In one of the deadliest clashes between the Sri Lankan military and Tamil rebels this year, 52 guerrillas and 38 soldiers were killed on Wednesday, the military said.
A French lawyer for a Khmer Rouge leader erupted at the judges of Cambodia’s genocide tribunal because thousands of pages of documents had not been translated into French.
A French lawyer for a Khmer Rouge leader erupted at the judges of Cambodia’s genocide tribunal because thousands of pages of documents had not been translated into French.
The government has shut down a prominent and outspoken newspaper catering to ethnic minority Indians. The paper’s news editor, B. R. Rajan, called the move punishment. The Tamil-language daily, Makkal Osai, or People’s Voice, provided wide coverage for the opposition party of Anwar Ibrahim and for activists who marshaled 20,000 ethnic Indians to protest last November against racial discrimination in Malaysia.
The government has shut down a prominent and outspoken newspaper catering to ethnic minority Indians. The paper’s news editor, B. R. Rajan, called the move punishment. The Tamil-language daily, Makkal Osai, or People’s Voice, provided wide coverage for the opposition party of Anwar Ibrahim and for activists who marshaled 20,000 ethnic Indians to protest last November against racial discrimination in Malaysia.
The military junta detained more than 20 people as they walked through the northwestern city of Sittwe in a peaceful campaign against the country’s proposed constitution.
The military junta detained more than 20 people as they walked through the northwestern city of Sittwe in a peaceful campaign against the country’s proposed constitution.
The military junta detained more than 20 people as they walked through the northwestern city of Sittwe in a peaceful campaign against the country’s proposed constitution.
Biranchi Das, the former coach for Budhia Singh, the slum boy, then 5, whose long-distance running set off an outcry two years ago, was shot to death Sunday in Bhubaneswar.
Biranchi Das, the former coach for Budhia Singh, the slum boy, then 5, whose long-distance running set off an outcry two years ago, was shot to death Sunday in Bhubaneswar.
Biranchi Das, the former coach for Budhia Singh, the slum boy, then 5, whose long-distance running set off an outcry two years ago, was shot to death Sunday in Bhubaneswar.
The authorities in Uttar Pradesh State have banned the sale of a locally made hair dye after debt-ridden farmers were found to be drinking it to end their lives, a state official said.
The authorities in Uttar Pradesh State have banned the sale of a locally made hair dye after debt-ridden farmers were found to be drinking it to end their lives, a state official said.
The authorities in Uttar Pradesh State have banned the sale of a locally made hair dye after debt-ridden farmers were found to be drinking it to end their lives, a state official said.
The turmoil is testing the stability of Pakistan’s new government, which was seated after routing President Pervez Musharraf’s allies in parliamentary elections in February.
A Chinese advocate for land rights was sentenced to five years in prison and then given shocks with electric batons during a scuffle between his family and the police, his lawyer said.
The Pakistani Army said Thursday that civilians were killed when American-led forces in Afghanistan fired across the border in a strike aimed at Taliban militants.
Thaksin Shinawatra, the prime minister who was ousted in a military coup in 2006, pleaded not guilty before the Supreme Court in Bangkok in one of two criminal corruption cases against him.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A telecommunications tower was set ablaze in western Afghanistan, a police official said Wednesday, the latest such attack since insurgents warned phone companies to shut down the towers at night.
A report by the United Nations says that a tenth of Afghanistan is off limits to aid workers because attacks by Taliban insurgents make it too dangerous.
A pro-government militia composed of former Tamil Tiger rebels won a local election in Batticaloa despite allegations that it had used child soldiers, extorted businessmen and carried out killings.