South Asia
South Korea parliament votes by wide margin to impeach president
South Korean lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Friday to impeach President Park Geun-hye over an influence-peddling scandal, setting the stage for her to ...Tensions soar as Indian fire hits bus in Kashmir, killing 10
Indian troops fired on a Pakistani passenger bus in Kashmir on Wednesday, killing 10 civilians in one of the deadliest incidents in ...Over 100 killed as Indian train derails
Emergency workers raced Sunday to find any more survivors in the mangled wreckage of an Indian express train that derailed overnight, killing ...Taliban suicide bomber kills four at NATO base in Afghanistan
A Taliban suicide bomber dressed as a laborer blew himself up at the NATO air base at Bagram north of the Afghan ...Anger grows in India as banks struggle to swap banned notes
Anger intensified in India on Saturday as banks struggled to dispense cash following the government\'s decision to withdraw large denomination notes in ...Six dead, dozens wounded as Afghan Taliban strike German consulate
The death toll from a powerful Taliban truck bombing at the German consulate in Afghanistan\'s Mazar-i-Sharif city rose to at least six ...Indian farmer commits suicide after rupee note ban
A farmer in southern India committed suicide fearing she would be left penniless after the government\'s shock decision to withdraw high denomination ...26 civilians, 2 US troops dead after Afghan raid on Taliban
A joint U.S.-Afghan raid Thursday against the Taliban involving NATO airstrikes left 26 civilians, three Afghan troops and two U.S. service members ...Militants attack Pakistan police academy, killing 59
Militants wearing suicide vests stormed a Pakistani police academy in the southwestern city of Quetta overnight, killing at least 59 people, mostly ...Afghan city of Kunduz under Taliban attack
Taliban insurgents launched an assault on Kunduz on Monday, triggering intense fighting and forcing residents to hide in their homes, one year ...




