South Asia
Several killed as two trains derail in India
Two passenger trains derailed after being hit by flash floods on a bridge in central India, killing at least 27 people in ...India signs peace agreement with Naga separatists
India signed a peace agreement on Monday with a leading tribal separatist group in the country\'s remote northeast that had waged guerrilla ...Pakistan executes man who killed child as minor
A Pakistani prison official says authorities have executed a man convicted of killing a 7-year-old boy in 2004, when he himself was ...Heavy monsoon rains kill more than 90 in India, leave thousands homeless
India\'s Home Ministry says heavy monsoon rains have killed more than 90 people in the past week and forced tens of thousands ...New Afghan Taliban leader appeals for unity in first public message
The new Afghan Taliban leader appealed for unity in the insurgency in his first public message released on Saturday amid reports his ...30 killed in Nepal as monsoon rains spark landslides
Landslides caused by heavy rains buried several mountain villages in Nepal on Thursday, killing at least 30 people, and bad weather was ...Afghan Taliban appoints new leader
The Taliban have chosen supreme leader Mullah Omar\'s deputy to replace him, two militant commanders said on Thursday, as Pakistan announced that ...India hangs Mumbai blasts convict 22 years after attack
India hanged Yakub Memon on Thursday for his role in the country\'s deadliest bombings, which killed 257 people in Mumbai in 1993, ...Afghanistan says Taliban leader dead, urges peace talks
Afghanistan said on Wednesday that Mullah Omar, elusive leader of the Taliban movement behind an escalating insurgency against the government in Kabul, ...Pakistan police kill leader of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group
Pakistani police killed the leader of the sectarian militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, his two sons and 11 others on Wednesday in a shootout ...