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Aug. 20, 2012
World & Nation
Amid doubts, offensive to retake Somalia capital looms
May 13, 2010
A provincial court in Pakistan has ordered the release of the man charged in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
Dec. 24, 2020
Heavy rains have pounded Pakistan since mid-June, leading to 903 deaths and leaving about 50,000 people homeless, disaster agency says.
Aug. 24, 2022
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — He returned to Pakistan from self-imposed exile last March amid a media circus, death threats and boasts of reclaiming the presidency he once seized in a bloodless coup.
Jan. 7, 2014
A former army officer, rebel and warlord was sworn in as the new president of Somalia in an attempt to unite the nation under a central government.
Oct. 15, 2004
Movies
“Sheikh Jackson,” Egypt’s official Oscar entry for 2018, is an offbeat, often affecting and thoughtful drama about conservative imam Sheikh Khaled Hani (Ahmad Elfishawy), whose strict, devout life turns upside down upon the death of his onetime idol, Michael Jackson.
Jan. 4, 2018
Former strongman Pervez Musharraf may be leaving Pakistan
Viggo Mortensen and his mustang Hidalgo enter a race across the desert. It’s hokey and yet sweetly sentimental.
March 5, 2004
Pakistan’s high court accepts an appeal by slain U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl’s family to keep one of his alleged killers on death row over the slaying.
Sept. 28, 2020