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  New Delhi: A Delhi Court yesterday framed charges against former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda for raping and abetting the suicide of former...

An army convoy patrols the streets on the outskirts of Peshawar, yesterday. MIRANSHAH: Bombs exploded near political party offices in remote areas of...

WASHINGTON: After years of crisis, Pakistan’s election offers a window for the US to try to reset the relationship but Washington could face...

MAZAR-I-SHARIF: Chancellor Angela Merkel made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan yesterday to shore up morale among Germany’s 4,200 troops as foreign forces withdraw...

LAHORE: Independent power producers (IPPs) have warned of longer outages in the near future, blaming the previous and  current governments for not taking...

  ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari voted by post in Pakistan’s general election, spokesman Farhatullah Babar confirmed yesterday. The Taliban have threatened Zardari’s Pakistan...

Former president Joseph Estrada (right), who is running for mayor in the city of Manila, attends a political rally.  MANILA:  The Department of...

MANILA: The Philippines admitted yesterday that its coastguard fired at a Taiwanese fishing boat in an incident that authorities in Taipei said left...

MANILA: The Philippines said yesterday it may quickly withdraw from a United Nations peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights because of security concerns,...

MANILA: The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) declared yesterday the highest state of alert throughout the country to make smooth operation of...

  MANILA: The Bankers Association of the Philippines (BAP) welcomed the Supreme Court decision to stop the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from implementing its...

SEOUL: A Korean-American sentenced to 15 years hard labour in North Korea was a missionary who used his tourism business to form groups...

JAYAPURA, Indonesia: Amnesty International has urged Indonesia to probe the deaths of three Papua independence activists who were gunned down as they protested...

  JAKARTA: Indonesian police have arrested four men suspected of robbing banks to fund militant activities as part of a major counter-terrorism operation across...

KUALA LUMPUR: A planned wave of protests over disputed Malaysian elections is the most provocative challenge to the government in years, upping pressure...

  Seoul: Five workers suffocated yesterday at a steel plant in this port city after gas leaked from a furnace, authorities said. The workers,...

Britain’s Prince Harry tosses a ball to Staff Sergeant Timothy Payne, who was wounded in Afghanistan, during his visit to Walter Reed National...

CLEVELAND: DNA tests show Ariel Castro, a former school bus driver charged with kidnapping and raping three women during a decade of captivity...