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India inflation stays high, 13th rate hike looms

India’s inflation remained stubbornly close to double-digits in September, and economists on Friday said a 13th rate hike loomed despite a slowing of Asia’s...

Pakistan and India to play blind cricket series

While India and Pakistan await a breakthrough in reviving main cricketing ties, they will field blind teams in a limited over series next month, a Pakistani official...

Bhutan’s newly wed royal couple returns home

THIMPHU, Bhutan (AP) — Tens of thousands of well wishers have lined the streets to greet Bhutan’s king and his new bride as they returned home a day after their...

US drone strike kills four in Pakistan: officials

A US drone strike killed four militants in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, the third such attack in 48 hours against Taliban hotbeds in Waziristan near the Afghan...

Nepal PM shocked by deadly bus crash

Nepalese Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai voiced shock Friday over a bus crash on a remote stretch of mountain road in the east of the country that killed 41 people. The...

Afghan police break up politician’s hunger strike

Afghan police have taken a woman politician to hospital and dismantled the tent where she observed a 12-day hunger strike to protest against being disqualified from...

US report: RPG downed Chinook in Afghanistan (AP)

AP – U.S. military investigators have concluded that the Chinook helicopter crash in Afghanistan that killed 30 U.S. troops in August was downed by a...

Obama hails South Korea trade deal as win for both (AP)

AP – President Barack Obama hailed a just-completed trade deal with South Korea Thursday as he welcomed the country’s president to the White House, offering...

On a Remote Afghan Mountain, a Test of U.S. Plans

OBSERVATION POST TWINS, Afghanistan — Much of what the Pentagon hopes to accomplish in Afghanistan before withdrawing most of its forces by 2014 is visible from...

Spill Cleanup Closes New Zealand Beaches

AUCKLAND — The authorities closed 22 kilometers of beaches along New Zealand’s east coast to the public on Thursday as hundreds of workers began cleaning up...