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Pakistan government ends historic 5-year term

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

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Swiss tourist gang-raped in central India

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

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Obama heads to Middle East with low expectations

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

Born in war and poverty, youth don’t abandon Iraq

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

24 soldiers killed in road accident in Pakistan

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,

Six killed in bar shooting in Mexican resort of Cancun

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

China picks Li Keqiang as new premier

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

Obama says Iran a year away from nuclear weapon

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

Attackers kill 12 in coordinated Baghdad assault

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

New pope promises to bring new look to Church

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