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Nawaz Sharif may give Pakistan-India relations a boost
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Indian-Pakistani relations, for years fraught with tension, appear on the surface to have received a boost from the stunning electoral comeback by former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Since Sharif's decisive...
Tags: Pakistan, Newspaper and Magazine, Prisons, Government, Islamabad (Pakistan)
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Afghan security concerns to ease after 2014, Karzai says
NEW DELHI -- Afghan security after the departure of foreign combat troops in 2014 will become easier because of the ill-advised, misdirected and often corrupt ways NATO and its contractors have pursued the "war on terror," Afghan President Hamid Karzai...
Tags: Pakistan, Hamid Karzai, Iran, Government, Elections
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Indian, Chinese leaders meet in New Delhi, pledge better relations
NEW DELHI – The Indian and Chinese premiers papered over their differences at a meeting in New Delhi on Monday, pledging to tackle a border dispute that has soured relations for decades and to work together for global stability. The meeting was...
Tags: U.S. Navy, New Delhi (India), Beijing (China), Pakistan, Asia
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Pakistan's incoming prime minister turns pragmatic
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a resounding victory in Pakistan's national elections, presumptive new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could have pressed his populist, hard-line approach that paints the U.S. as hopelessly malevolent and self-interested....
Tags: Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan, U.S. Elections, Terrorism, Government
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Salman Rushdie bequeaths 'Midnight's Children' to film
In the late 1970s, long before he penned "The Satanic Verses," before he sparked a global uproar between Islamic fundamentalists and free-speech advocates and became a marked man, before he turned into a celebrity man of letters who dates models and...
Tags: Celebrities, United Kingdom, Midnight's Children (movie), Bangladesh, Movies
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Alleged revenge attack hospitalizes Pakistani inmate in India
A Pakistani prisoner in a Kashmir jail was attacked and suffered serious head injuries Friday morning, one day after outrage erupted in India over the death of an Indian prisoner in Pakistan. The Pakistani Foreign Ministry said the attack was “...
Tags: Pakistan, Prisons, Manmohan Singh
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Owner of collapsed building in Bangladesh is arrested
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.NEW DELHI, India –- The owner of a collapsed building in Bangladesh was arrested Sunday near the Indian borderĀ as the death toll rose to at least 370 in the nation’s worst garment industry disaster. With more than 800 people still missing...Tags: National Government, Sheikh Hasina, Police Arrests, Politics, Clothing and Textiles Industry
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Rape of 5-year-old ignites furious protest in India
NEW DELHI — Several hundred people protesting the rape and kidnapping of a 5-year-old girl descended on police headquarters Saturday, waving signs, overrunning barriers and calling for the resignation of the capital city's police commissioner. The...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Human Rights, Physical Therapy, Kidnapping, Feminism
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Projects Abroad gives teens a chance to lend a hand
From childcare to medical internships, Projects Abroad offers high school students an opportunity to travel and help nurture a community in another country. This year about 1,000 students from around the world will volunteer through Projects Abroad's...
Tags: Travel, Schools, Ghana, Argentina, Teaching and Learning
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Blast in India's high-tech capital, Bangalore, wounds 16
NEW DELHI, India -- An explosion Wednesday near the office of a political party in the high-tech capital of Bangalore wounded 16 people, including eight police officers, officials said. Early evidence suggests that a low-intensity bomb of the type often...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Politics, New Delhi (India), Explosions, Bangalore (India)
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Death of jailed Indian in Pakistan causes furor
The death of an Indian prisoner attacked behind bars in Pakistan set off an uproar Thursday, as protests erupted and the Indian government demanded justice in the politically sensitive case. Sarabjit Singh had spent more than two decades in Pakistani...
Tags: National Government, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Rights, Politics
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Residential building collapses in Mumbai area, killing 62
MUMBAI, India — A residential building being constructed illegally on forest land in a suburb of India's financial capital collapsed into a mound of steel and concrete, killing 62 people and injuring 70, authorities said Friday. The eight-story...
Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Mumbai (India)
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