Police in Pakistan's capital Islamabad foiled an attempted car bombing and seized an explosives-laden vehicle, officials said Saturday.
Sultan Azam, a senior police official, said the car was discovered at midnight Friday at a house in Bhara Kahu, a village on the northeastern outskirts of Islamabad. Police had raided the house after an intelligence tip.
Full StoryAn Indian court found a teenager guilty on Saturday over the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi, a crime that sparked revulsion and angry protests in the country, an official said.
"He has been held guilty for rape and murder and sentenced to three years subject to review," Anil Sharma, the chief investigating officer in the case, told reporters outside the court in the capital, announcing the first verdict in the case.
Full StoryTwo soldiers were killed in a firefight with communist guerrillas in the northern Philippines while in a separate clash police backed by helicopters stormed a rebel base near a mountain resort, officials said Saturday.
Up to 30 New People's Army (NPA) gunmen fought a two-day gunbattle with police forces near the resort town of Sagada, said Chief Superintendent Benjamin Magalong, the regional police chief.
Full StoryThe Indian army said Saturday it has killed five suspected rebels in northern Kashmir, near the heavily militarized de facto border dividing the disputed Himalayan territory between India and Pakistan.
Rebel leaders on the Pakistan side recently threatened an "unprecedented" surge in attacks on Indian targets as battle-hardened fighters from Afghanistan prepare to target the region.
Full StoryA suicide bomber killed up to six Afghans and wounded 20 others in an attack outside a bank in the southern city of Kandahar as people were waiting to collect their salaries, officials said.
"The attack took place in the city of Kandahar near the New Kabul Bank branch, and police and civilians gathered outside the bank to collect their salaries," Javed Faisal, spokesman for the Kandahar provincial governor, told AFP.
Full StoryA U.S. drone killed at least four militants in a missile strike Saturday targeting a compound in northwest Pakistan's tribal belt, local security officials said.
The attack took place in the village of Heso Khel around 35 kilometers (21 miles) east of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan which is a notorious stronghold of Taliban and Al-Qaida-linked militants.
Full StorySouth Africa's presidency on Saturday denied reports that Nelson Mandela had been discharged from hospital and had returned to his Johannesburg home.
"Madiba is still in hospital in Pretoria, and remains in a critical but stable condition," President Jacob Zuma's spokesman said in a statement, denying reports from several news organizations that he had left the facility.
Full StoryU.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay on Saturday accused Sri Lanka of becoming "increasingly authoritarian" with activists facing growing military harassment four years after the end of a civil war.
Pillay charged that military officials were harassing and intimidating priests, journalists and other civilians as punishment for meeting her during a fact-finding trip to the island to probe allegations of war crimes.
Full StoryAn ammonia leak from a cold storage unit at a food company in China's commercial hub of Shanghai killed 15 people on Saturday and sickened dozens, the city government said.
The leak sickened 26 people, who had been sent to hospital, with six in critical condition, the Shanghai government said in a statement.
Full StoryTwelve passengers were injured when their train was derailed by mudslides in southern Taiwan on Saturday after a tropical storm triggered widespread flooding.
The train, carrying around 250 passengers, was hit by the mudslides as it was approaching a tunnel in Pingtung county, the Taiwan Railway Administration said, adding that four carriages came off the tracks.
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