PAKISTAN

Imran Khan has called for Britain to reduce aid to Pakistan, citing that the money is wasted by corrupt government officials.

Pakistan's military will not take action against the Haqqani group, which Washington blames for an attack against its embassy in Kabul, despite mounting American pressure, a Pakistani newspaper reported Monday.

U.S. agencies are looking into possible similarities between the Sept. 13 attacks on U.S. and NATO targets in Afghanistan, and the November 2008 attack by militants on civilian targets in Mumbai, India.

Mullen testified before a Senate panel that: The Haqqani network... acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency.

Pakistan's foreign minister said on Thursday the United States risks losing an ally if it continues to publicly criticise Islamabad's performance in the war against militancy.

Pakistan's Baluchistan province has objected to a mining lease being sought by a joint venture between Antofagasta and Barrick Gold, further delaying a major planned copper and gold project in the country's southwest.

As of Jan. 1, 2011, there were 3,251 total prisoners on death row in the U.S., but the number of executions per year has been declining over the past decade. Despite the decline, the United States still executes the fourth most people of any country in the world.

According to local media reports, Pakistan’s Cetacean Conservation Project (CCP) officials have initiated efforts to remove the corpse, which is believed to be of a Baleen whale.

A federal appeals court said on Monday that the 17-year prison sentence imposed on Jose Padilla, a US citizen also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir or Muhajir Abdullah, who was convicted of aiding terrorists in 2007, was too lenient.

Ralph Nader and a group of progressive cohorts are seeking a Democrat who can challenge President Barack Obama for the 2012 Democratic nomination for president.

There have been a number of high-profile earthquakes in the last month, including ones in India, Japan, Cuba, Indonesia and the United States. Here are the ten worst quakes over the past 100 years.

A low-intensity blast at a hospital in the tourist city of Agra injured at least three people on Saturday, a local police official said.

The Indian government has reported that at least eight people died in India and Nepal, and at least three people died when a building in Kathmandu collapsed. The quake also created a number of mudslides on the outskirts of Gangtok, India, killing at least one man who was trapped inside his car.

According to reports, about 6-million people have been impacted by the floods, amidst fears that some regions may be waterlogged for months.

Although many of the world’s democratic states have had females as presidents and/or prime ministers – surprisingly, many have not, including the most powerful democracy on Earth, the United States.

Pakistan had no confirmation Friday that al-Qaida's chief of operations in the country had been killed in a recent drone strike in the northwestern tribal region, as reported by American officials.

Courts in China's restive far western region of Xinjiang have sentenced four people to death for violence in two cities over the summer which left 32 people dead, a government website said.

The Kabul attack is now over, but the Middle East and Arab worlds are still overflowing with violence, social unrest and international tension. Here is the round up of news from Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.

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Afghan and NATO security forces have stopped the attack in Kabul that killed 14 people. It took 20 hours, but the last two militants were cleared from their high-rise hiding spot in on Wednesday morning.

The police on Tuesday killed one of the most wanted top Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Abdullah Ooni at an encounter at Batpora in Sopore (Kashmir).