Indian PM’s party shakes up election race in disputed Kashmir
SRINAGAR India (Reuters) – Accompanied by half a dozen guards, Hina Bhat knocks on doors in Srinagar, the heart of a revolt against Indian rule, to persuade Kashmiris to vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party in this month’s state election.
ASEAN to pressure China to stick to diplomacy on maritime disputes
NAYPYITAW Myanmar (Reuters) – Southeast Asian leaders will welcome China’s Prime Minister Le Keqiang with fanfare on Wednesday but behind closed doors will push their giant neighbor to take a less bellicose approach to overlapping claims in the South C…
Special Report: The fighters of Iraq who answer to Iran
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Among the thousands of militia fighters who flocked to northern Iraq to battle militant group Islamic State over the summer was Qais al-Khazali.
Instruments ‘rusty’ at Indian sterilization camp where 13 died
BHUBANESWAR India (Reuters) – Nem Bai was told getting a tubectomy would be an easy process -that she’d be home by sunset, a few hundred rupees richer and back to work in the fields within two days.
Russia sees chance of deal at nuclear talks with Iran
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A deal is vital at talks between world powers and Tehran on Iran’s nuclear program and Russia is not considering the possibility of the negotiations failing, a senior Russian envoy said on Wednesday.
U.S.-led strikes have killed 865 people in Syria, 50 civilians: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Air strikes by U.S.-led forces in Syria have killed 865 people, including 50 civilians, since the start of the campaign in late September against Islamic State militants, a group monitoring the war said on Wednesday.
German police arrest suspected IS supporters, raid properties
BERLIN (Reuters) – German police arrested several men suspected of supporting militant groups, including Islamic State, and raided numerous properties in a large operation against alleged radicals, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Truce in Damascus district allows in aid: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Cars carrying food and aid supplies entered a southern Damascus neighborhood on Wednesday thanks to a local ceasefire agreement between pro-government officials and insurgents, a monitoring group said on Wednesday.
Young Afghans go online to find friendship and love
KABUL (Reuters) – Frustrated by strict social rules, young and educated Afghans are quickly learning that taboos can be sidestepped at the tap of a mobile phone.
Afghan opium crop at fresh high as foreign troops withdraw
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s opium crop will hit a new high this year, the United Nations said on Wednesday, presenting the new president with a challenge in tackling the trade fuelling the Taliban-led insurgency after the foreign combat mission end…
