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It is unclear whether President Hamid Karzai will accept the vote.

The monk delivering the sermon says the bomb was intended to silence him.

She plans to leave the United Arab Emirates as soon as possible.

Bin Walid's mausoleum is the latest of a series of Syrian religious and cultural sites damaged or destroyed.

The notification has gone out that she is in the early stages of labour after being admitted.

Regime shelling kills at least 18 civilians in the northwest while 28 rebels died in Damascus.

It is the first such disaster in the project that feeds about 120 million children every day across India.

The Americans are not honest in their encounters: Iran's supreme leader

Salafists have been trying to seize control of a mosque led by a Zaidi imam in Sanaa.

PTI chief says UK govt is responsible as it was warned to act following MQM chief's open threats to PTI workers.

Sartaj Aziz handed over a formal invitation from PM Nawaz Sharif to President Karzai to visit Islamabad.

Protesters gathered in front of Alhamra and walked to the Lahore Press Club chanting slogans against the attackers.

Foreign ministry fears such a move will create contradiction in government’s policy towards drone use.

Says Pakistan maintains contacts but doesn’t control the Taliban.

Indian media tends to be either silent or bullish, with trust highlighted as a key issue.

As the debate surfaces again, there are supporters and detractors on both sides .

PTI says US trial and conviction of Aafia Siddiqui was highly biased.

The telephone metadata collection program was created by the 2001 Patriot Act in the context of fighting terrorism.

More than 450 people have been killed each month from April to the present.

Washington hopes to host Israeli and Palestinian negotiators within a week.

Yemen's government is grappling with a separatist movement in the south and a militant insurgency.

Under the agreement, Aafia to stay imprisoned in Pakistan for 86 years.

Australian PM says asylum seekers will no longer be resettled within the country’s borders.

Daudzai says trip will yield ‘practical gains’ for peace.

Declares support for Afghan-led solution to end militancy problems in the region.

Nair refuses to take The Reluctant Fundamentalist to Israel.

Banks, shops, schools and most government offices remained closed for a second straight day.

US officials had colluded with Iran over his detention for more than a decade after the 9/11 attacks.

Relations between the two countries have been strained by a number of issues in recent months.

As the negotiations will start they will be complex and not easy.

US, which justifies military action for democracy,is now seen on side of fundamentalist, extremist groups in West Asia

The rockets landed outside the mosque, says a local resident.

Of the total, $2b will be invested in Karachi ventures but no details yet.

Iran owed the bank $697 million on June 30, of which $79 million was overdue.

Amid hopes of resuming composite dialogue, Pakistan expresses grave concern over burning of Quran in Kashmir.

The disclosures by Snowden, who is wanted on espionage charges, have raised Americans' concerns about domestic spying.

EU lawmakers requested Colombo to ensure accountability of up to 40,000 civilians killed in the final battles in 2009.

Kashmir's main city was under curfew after forces shot six people at a raid by the troops on an Islamic school.

Counter terrorism specialists from the bloc first met on the issue on June 4 but failed to reach unanimity.

Parents smashed up the home of the headmistress and attacked government offices in the village.

If convicted on all counts, Manning could face a prison sentence of more than 150 years.

Police tactical photographer says he released the images in response to the portrait of Tsarnaev in Rolling Stone.

When flushing the maggots out failed, the medics resorted to surgery and found a "writhing mass of maggots"

Secretary of State John Kerry visits the region to try to help restart talks that stalled in 2010.

Police say it appears a kidnapping for ransom case.

Hamid Karzai’s chief of staff says there was still a huge rift with Washington despite top-level efforts to patch up.

Indian government officer claimed that the 2001 Parliament and 2008 Mumbai attacks were engineered by New Delhi.

The survey found growing global criticism of China in most of East Asia and Europe.

In 12 countries, eight-in-ten or more hold an opposing view to drones.

Apprises UK foreign secretary on back channel initiatives to revive composite dialogue process with India.