South Asia
Truck bomb kills at least 90, wounds hundreds in Afghan capital
A suicide attacker struck the fortified heart of the Afghan capital with a massive truck bomb Wednesday, killing 90 people, wounding 400 ...Nearly 300,000 evacuated as cyclone approaches Bangladesh
Bangladesh has evacuated nearly 300,000 people as Cyclone Mora barrelled towards its southeastern coast at speeds of more than 85 kilometres (53 ...Sri Lanka rushes aid to flood victims, death toll hits 146
Emergency teams rushed to distribute aid Sunday to half a million Sri Lankans displaced after the island\'s worst flooding in more than ...Sri Lanka confirms 100 dead in mudslides; 99 missing
Sri Lanka has appealed for outside help as the death toll from floods and mudslides rose Saturday to 100 with 99 others ...Anti-India protests hit Kashmir after top rebel is killed
One civilian was killed and dozens of others injured Saturday after massive anti-India protests and clashes erupted in Indian-controlled Kashmir following the ...Nepal votes in first local election in 20 years
Nepal held local level polls on Sunday, the first since 1997 and a key step in the country\'s rocky transition to democracy ...Bomb kills 25 as it hits convoy of Pakistan Senate deputy
A bomb exploded next to a convoy of the deputy chairman of the Pakistan Senate on Friday in the violence-plagued province of ...Nepal man, 85, dies trying to become oldest Everest climber
An 85-year-old man from Nepal died Saturday while attempting to scale Mount Everest to regain his title as the oldest person to ...Famed Swiss climber killed near Mount Everest in Nepal
A Swiss climber acclaimed for his rapid ascents — including scaling dozens of peaks in the Alps in a little more than ...Maoist rebels kill at least 25 Indian paramilitary soldiers
Maoist rebels killed at least 25 Indian paramilitary soldiers and injured six others in their stronghold in central India on Monday in ...




