US QUIETLY RELEASING $1.6B IN PAKISTAN ASSISTANCE
By BRADLEY KLAPPER FILE – In this Aug. 26, 2013, file photo Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif pauses during a joint press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, with Afghan President Hamid…
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UN EXPERT URGES US TO REVEAL CIVILIAN DRONE DEATHS
By SEBASTIAN ABBOT FILE – In this Jan. 31, 2010 file photo, an unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night. A U.N.…
INDIAN OFFICIALS SAY FEW DEATHS IN MASSIVE CYCLONE
By KAY JOHNSON Indian villagers collect their belongings at the cyclone hit Arjipalli village on the Bay of Bengal coast in Ganjam district, Orissa state, India, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013.…
SENIOR PAKISTAN TALIBAN CAPTURED IN AFGHANISTAN
By PATRICK QUINN In this Oct. 4, 2009 photo, Pakistani Taliban commander Latif Mehsud sits with fellows in Sararogha in south Waziristan in Pakistan. U.S. troops are holding the senior…
INDONESIA, INDIA INK DEALS, WANT TO COOPERATE MORE
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, right, talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a signing ceremony at Merdeka Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)…
EASTERN INDIA BRACES FOR IMPACT OF MAJOR CYCLONE
In this Thursday Oct. 10, 2013 photo, fishing boats are pulled off to the shore following a cyclone alert on the Bay of Bengal coast at Puri, Odisha state, India.…
PAKISTAN’S FORMER PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF GETS BAIL
By ASIF SHAHZAD FILE — In this Monday, April 15, 2013 file photo, Pakistan’s former President and military ruler Pervez Musharraf addresses his party supporters at his house in Islamabad,…
MALDIVES URGES SUPPORT FOR NEW PRESIDENTIAL VOTE
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Former Maldivian Foreign Minister Ahmed Naseem, right, speaks during a media briefing in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. The Maldives government has called on all…