According to the authorities, no less than nine soldiers have been killed
and more than 20 others injured in a blast in Kashmir.
Saturday an army convoy was heading to Srinagar, Kashmir, when a military
bus that was carrying troops drove over a land mine along in a Narbal highway,
said the police. Some of the injured people are...
Ignoring international protests, a Japanese whaling fleet on Sunday
headed for Antarctica to hunt for some 950 minke, humpback and fin
whales.
The expedition of six vessels is to last until mid-April, with the
Japanese - in keeping with previous practice - declaring that the catch
is for "research purposes."
The Kyodo...
The Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Sunday rejected
a call by the US Senate to suspend Myanmar following a violent
crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
ASEAN Secretary General Ong Keng Yong said the US Senate resolution
was not doable from the perspective of the 10-member regional bloc.
"Our approach is...
At least 34 people were killed and more than 100 injured in clashes
between rival Sunni and Shia muslim groups in north-west Pakistan,
officials said Saturday.
The running battles broke out after Friday prayers in Parachinar, a
tribal region near the Afghan border, when gunmen opened fire on a
Sunni mosque injuring two people, the...
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf Saturday refused to lift
immediately the emergency rule as he met US Deputy Secretary of State
John Negroponte, officials said.
"The US diplomats expressed concern over the existing political
instability in Pakistan and asked President Musharraf to take certain
measures to calm down the...
A massive rescue and relief operation has been mounted Saturday by
thousands of soldiers and civilian volunteers in southern Bangladesh,
which was tossed by a devastating tropical cyclone that left a trail of
death and destruction.
Rescuers counted another 300 bodies of people killed in Friday's
cyclone that triggered mudslides...
Cyclone Sidr, which roared ashore with winds of more than 200
kilometres per hour, has killed at least 214 people in Bangladesh, an
official with the disaster management office in Dhaka said Friday.
Muhammad Mia said 87 deaths were reported alone in the coastal district of Barguna, the area hardest hit.
The death toll could rise...
Pakistan's interim Prime Minister Mohammedmian Soomro was sworn by
President General Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad Friday amid the
country's continuing politicial crisis.
The military leader administered the oath taken by Soomro, who will
steer the country to elections of new parliamentary assemblies in
January under the current...
North and South Korea have agreed in principle to resume cross-border
freight train services for the first time in more than half a century,
a spokesman for the South Korean Defence Ministry said Thursday in
Seoul.
Speaking following the second of three days of talks between the
prime ministers of both countries, the spokesman...
Pakistani liberal opposition leader Benazir Bhutto claimed Thursday
that police killed two of her supporters at a protest rally against
emergency rule in the southern port city of Karachi at which hundreds
more were carted away.
"In Karachi 300 people have been arrested. There were huge protest
at (the district of) Liari and...
At least 20 armed supporters of a pro-Taliban cleric were killed
Thursday as gunship helicopters and artillery pounded their positions
in Pakistan's north-west Swat valley, the military said.
"Today gunship helicopters targeted militant positions north of
Kabal and Kuza Bande," a statement released on the website of...
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