ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s government passed a major milestone Saturday, with the parliament becoming the first democratically chosen body to finish its five-year term in a country
NEW DELHI: A Swiss woman who was touring by bicycle with her husband through the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh was gang-raped by a group of eight men, police
WASHINGTON: When President Barack Obama steps into the Middle East’s political cauldron this coming week, he won’t be seeking any grand resolution for the region’s vexing problems. His goal will
BAGHDAD: The 21-year-old college student in Baghdad lost her father during the Iraq War to gunmen from a rival Muslim sect. Now she dreams of an Iraq where all people
ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan: A bus carrying Pakistani soldiers slid off a mountainous road and fell into a deep ravine in the country’s northwest on Saturday, killing 24 and injuring five others,
MEXICO CITY: Two men armed with a machine gun and a handgun opened fire in a bar on the outskirts of the Mexican tourist resort of Cancun on Thursday, killing
BEIJING: China’s legislature elected Li Keqiang as premier on Friday, installing an English-speaking bureaucrat as the man in charge of the economy, the world’s second-largest, and its aim of reviving
JERUSALEM: Iran is about a year away from developing a nuclear weapon and the United States remains committed to doing everything in its power to prevent that from happening, PresidentBarack
BAGHDAD: A string of explosions tore through central Baghdad within minutes of each other on Thursday, followed by what appeared to be a coordinated assault by gunmen who battled security
VATICAN CITY: Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio’s election as pope has broken Europe’s centuries-old grip on the papacy, opening the doors on a new age of simplicity and humility for the