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Modi deeply pained at the loss of lives due to stampede

A large portion of Afghanistan's drugs are transported to the rest of the world via Iran

Senior police officer says guerrillas stopped bus transporting policemen as it was passing through Kutru village

Gulnur, a Uighur, says we are all branded as terrorists because of a few bad people

Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh welcomed the move to revive stalled talks between India and Pakistan

Interior ministry spokesman put the wounded toll at 25, including one female member of the provincial council

The singer has filed for bankruptcy protection under his real name, Curtis James Jackson III

Windows 10 will be available as a free upgrade for a limited time for genuine Windows 7 & 8/8.1 users on July 29

Authorities stopped 101 immigrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Syria as they were about to set off from Ayvacik

Any shift by Hekmatyar would boost Islamic State's expansionist ambitions in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Extreme water stress, and competition for productive land, could both become sources of conflict

A leading figure in the videogame industry, Iwata oversaw the success of Nintendo's Wii games console

Najem Gharsalli says militants were "heavyweights" from Tunisia's main extremist group Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigades

At least 1,925 people in southern Philippines, mostly schoolchildren fall sick after eating fruit-flavoured candy

Lattore and Girone had shot two fishermen while serving as part of an anti-piracy mission off southern India in 2012

Presiding judge Kun Marioso told court defendants came to Indonesia with intention of carrying out acts of terror

Asks residents from areas that have substantial Tibetan or Muslim populations to provide more extensive documentation

Court defers hearing until July 20

Police have stopped all traffic in the area around the Qwartz mall where the Primark store is located

Senior official says such a base would help US fill gaps in understanding of what's going on in the region

Javid, most senior elected Muslim in the UK, urges parents to question the motives of Imams

Protesters say building more runways goes against everything we're told by experts on climate change

Taliban decided to attend the meeting unofficially, but not to own it publicly, says a senior militant

If the deal is reached, Iran will be granted staggered relief from painful sanctions

Full terms of the new deal were not immediately available but looked set to be tougher than those originally offered

Tenzin Delek was serving a 20-year sentence on charges of 'crimes of terror and incitement of separatism'

King Salman gives no reason for the changes made in government

EU president Donald Tusk introduces a "compromise proposal" in a bid to break the deadlock

All students from outside the European Union face ban on working in the UK under new immigration curb

Ala'a Badr Abdullah al-Hashemi, 31, was sentenced to death a year ago for stabbing a Romanian-born mother of twins

Sources say deadliest attack hit Shaab neighbourhood, where a car bomb followed by a suicide blast killed 19 people

A deal between Iran and P5+1 could help assuage the Arab world’s nuclear fears

The bomber detonated the explosives at a military roadblock near the entrance to Camp Chapman

Former external affairs minister says Indian PM should clarify whether the BJP is in favour of peace talks

Talks seeks a deal curbing Iran's nuclear activities to make it difficult for Tehran to develop atomic bomb

Unknown hackers last week downloaded 400GB of data from Hacking Team and dumped onto the Wikileaks website

Saturday's attack in a bustling N'Djamena market by a man disguised as a woman in a full-face veil left 15 dead

Many would-be militants had also brought their families with them

Malala opens a school for more than 200 Syrian girls living in refugee camps in Lebanon

News comes after scientists employed new research methods that can predict solar cycles with far more accuracy

Abdul Karim Fayeq, the provincial police chief, confirms the incident and blames Taliban for the blast

Islamic Jihad has congratulated Adnan for his "victory" and said a celebration was being organised in his village

Indian special public prosecutor says Lakhvi’s position is an ‘admission of guilt’

The expansion project once done will be able to accommodate an additional 1.2 million pilgrims

Scores of Uighurs keen to escape unrest in China's Xinjiang region have travelled clandestinely to Turkey

Police who seized Asia's largest known shipment of liquid cocaine at a Bangladeshi port say it was headed for India

Mount Raung on main island of Java has been erupting for weeks

Supreme leader tells university students prepare themselves for more fight against arrogance

Former chairman of Leeds Grand Mosque was the sole distributor of a DVD glorifying suicide bombings

Coalition says it has not received formal request from Hadi's government to observe truce