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Twenty-three Myanmarese apply for asylum seeker status

Twenty-three Myanmarese have applied for asylum seeker status to the United Nations High Commission on Refugees ...

Afghan peace council head killed in Kabul

Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani and head of the council tasked with trying to negotiate a political end to ...

British soldier shot dead in Afghanistan: ministry

A British Royal Marine was killed after coming under small arms fire while on foot patrol in Helmand Province, ...

Battle in Kabul heightens Afghan security fears

A deadly 19-hour Taliban assault on Kabul that turned its most heavily secured district into a battle zone has ...

Indian Journalists shot dead in Mumbai

A senior journalist was shot dead by four unidentified persons in suburban Powai in Mumbai, capital of Maharashtra ...

Afghanistan, Pakistan to jointly work for reconciliation

Afghanistan and Pakistan Saturday expressed their commitment to an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned process of ...

US foresees $46 billion in 2011 military sales

The United States plans to export $46.1 billion in weapons this year, nearly doubling its 2010 figures, officials said ...

Slain Pakistani reporter awarded journalism prize

Pakistani investigative reporter Syed Saleem Shahzad has been posthumously awarded an Italian journalism prize after ...

Canada to pull out of NATO air surveillance

Canadian Forces will soon announce their withdrawal from a key NATO air surveillance program as part of cost-cutting ...

1,000 Al-Qaeda fighters still in Iraq: Panetta

CIA chief Leon Panetta told lawmakers Thursday that 1,000 Al-Qaeda fighters are still operating in Iraq and said US ...

Obama says sorry to Karzai for civilian deaths

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday expressed his "sorrow" to Afghan President Hamid Karzai over recent civilian ...

President receives credentials of six foreign ambassadors

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at Merdeka Palace here Wednesday received credentials of six foreign ambassadors. ...

President receives credentials of six foreign ambassadors

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at Merdeka Palace here Wednesday received credentials of six foreign ambassadors. ...

38,000 internally displaced persons in Pakistan return homes: UN

The United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday that 38,000 people, who had been displaced as the result of fighting ...

US drone strikes kill 18 in Pakistan

US missiles killed 18 militants in Pakistan`s tribal district of South Waziristan on Monday, destroying compounds and ...