South Asia
U.S., Taliban talks end for now with no Afghan peace deal
U.S. and Taliban negotiators wrapped up their longest round of peace talks with progress made but no agreement on when foreign troops ...At least 16 killed in bomb, gun attack in eastern Afghanistan
Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked a construction company office in the Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday killing 16 employees of the ...Pakistan, India trade fire in Kashmir; villagers flee homes
India and Pakistan exchanged gunfire through the night into Thursday morning in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, a day after Islamabad ...Nepal tourism minister among seven killed in helicopter crash
A helicopter crashed in bad weather in eastern Nepal on Wednesday, killing all seven people on board, including the tourism minister, a ...Pakistan says it shot down Indian jets, carried out airstrikes in Kashmir
Pakistan carried out airstrikes and shot down two Indian jets on Wednesday, Pakistani officials said, a day after Indian warplanes struck inside ...India launches airstrike inside Pakistan; Islamabad denies militant camp hit
India said its warplanes struck a militant training camp inside Pakistan on Tuesday, killing "a very large number" of fighters, raising risk ...Global support lets Bangladesh PM withstand election worries
Congratulatory messages are flowing to Bangladesh\'s Prime Minister-elect Sheikh Hasina, ensuring she will withstand the reverberating calls to investigate serious allegations of ...Sydney, Hong Kong kick off 2019 parties with dazzling fireworks
Sydney and Hong Kong put on stunning fireworks displays to welcome to the New Year, among the first in a wave of ...Bangladesh probes vote rigging allegations in election hit by violence
Bangladesh\'s Election Commission is investigating allegations of vote rigging coming from across the country on Sunday, a spokesman told Reuters, as polling ...10,500 arrests ahead of Bangladesh poll: opposition
Bangladesh police have arrested more than 10,500 opposition activists in a crackdown ahead of elections this week, opposition parties said Tuesday.




