EU POISED TO SUSPEND SOME SANCTIONS ON IRAN
BY JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks at his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. Putin credited…
South Asia
WORLD SEA PIRACY FALLS FOR THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR
By EILEEN NG FILE – In this Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012 file photo, masked Somali pirate Hassan stands near a Taiwanese fishing vessel that washed up on shore after the…
UK ORDERS INQUIRY INTO BRITISH ROLE IN TEMPLE RAID
By RAPHAEL SATTER FILE – In this June 6, 1984 file photo, Indian troops take up position on rooftops around the Golden Temple, in Amritsar, India, after soldiers started to…
HASINA SWORN IN FOR 3RD TIME AS BANGLADESH PM
Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid, left, administers the oath to Bangladesh’i Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, right, during her swearing in ceremony in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2013. Hasina was sworn…
INDIAN POLITICAL BRAWLING SHOWS RAPE A VOTER ISSUE
By KATY DAIGLE FILE – In this Friday, Jan. 3, 2014 file photo, activists of Indian National Congress with black bands around their mouths block traffic during a protest against…
VIOLENCE, BOYCOTT MAR ELECTIONS IN BANGLADESH
By JULHAS ALAM Bangladeshi policemen stand guard as a man walks by on a street during a nationwide 48-hour strike called by the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) a…
BANGLADESH VOTE UNLIKELY TO STEM WAVE OF VIOLENCE
By JULHAS ALAM Bangladeshi policemen check passengers riding on a rickshaw during a nationwide 48-hour strike called by the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) a day before general elections…
PAKISTAN’S MUSHARRAF NO SHOW IN COURT; BOMB FOUND
By REBECCA SANTANA A Pakistani female police officer stands alert outside a court set up for the trial of Pakistan’s former president and military ruler Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad, Pakistan,…