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ANOTHER protester has been killed in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir, bringing to six the number of young men shot dead by security forces in two days as fresh violence shakes the region. The latest casualties marked […] […]

NOWSHERA, PAKISTAN—Flooding in Pakistan has killed more than 800 people in a week, a government official said Saturday as rescuers struggled to reach marooned victims and some evacuees showed signs of fever, diarrhea and other […] […]

THERE is one book on Afghanistan that the owner of a cluttered bookshop in Kabul is proud not to stock, even though it is based on his family. The Bookseller of Kabul was an international […] […]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — The death toll in three days of flooding in Pakistan reached at least 267 on Friday, rescue and government officials said, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides. The […] […]

The discovery of the body of a second US sailor who vanished in Afghanistan last week has only deepened the mystery of the men’s disappearance nearly 60 miles (97 km) from their base in a […] […]

A US couple was deported in shackles Thursday from Nicaragua to Panama, where they face charges of killing two Americans and questioning in the disappearances of 5 other people. Authorities identified the suspects as William […] […]

UN chief Ban Ki-moon praised a landmark treaty banning cluster munitions, which comes into force this weekend, as a major advance in efforts to rid the world of the “abhorrent weapons”. “I am delighted that […] […]

PEOPLE-smugglers in Indonesia could face up to 15 years’ jail under draft laws set to be debated by parliament as early as next month. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono promised the Australian parliament in March […] […]

THE legal battle may have just begun, but there was plenty of celebration among Mexican-Americans yesterday when a US Federal Court judge blocked the most contentious parts of Arizona’s new immigration laws. Judge Susan Bolton […] […]

PHOENIX—Arizona is preparing to ask an appeals court to lift a judge’s ruling that put most of the state’s immigration law on hold in a key first-round victory for the federal government in a fight […] […]