Pakistan reached an understanding with the United States on drone strikes targeting Islamist militants and the attacks can be useful, according leaked remarks from a former intelligence chief.
Pakistan publicly condemns U.S. missile attacks on Taliban and al-Qaida operatives as a violation of its sovereignty, but the new revelations are the latest sign of double-dealing in private.
Full StoryA Taliban bomb in western Afghanistan on Tuesday killed 12 women, four children and one man traveling in a three-wheel minivan, officials said, adding that at least seven other passengers were wounded.
"Unfortunately as a result of this blast, 12 women, four children and one man have been killed and five children, one man and one woman have been wounded," Herat province police spokesman Abdul Rauf Ahmadi told AFP.
Full StoryThe Greek coastguard on Tuesday rescued 142 migrants off the island of Crete after their boat began to take on water, officials and reports said.
According to the Athens News Agency, the coastguard rescued 77 men, 24 women and 38 children of Syrian and Afghan origin.
Full StoryAttackers who staged serial blasts at one of Buddhism's holiest sites this week also placed a bomb on a giant stone-carved idol of the Buddha that did not explode, police said Tuesday.
Ten small devices went off early Sunday in the Bodh Gaya temple complex in eastern Bihar state, wounding two monks, while three others were defused before they could explode in the historic shrine.
Full StoryAn appeal trial over the murder of a British student in Italy is to begin on September 30 after Italy's top court overturned the acquittal of American Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito.
The two were initially convicted in 2009 for the frenzied murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia in what prosecutors was a sex game gone wrong, then absolved on appeal in 2011 after nearly four years in prison.
Full StoryNelson Mandela remains in a "critical but stable" condition, the South African government said Tuesday, after more than one month of intensive hospital treatment.
President Jacob Zuma thanked members of the public for their prayers and "dignified gatherings outside the hospital" in Pretoria where the 94-year-old apartheid hero was rushed on June 8.
Full StoryA corruption scandal implicating Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy reignited on Tuesday with the publication of an original handwritten account ledger apparently showing illegal payments to him while he was a minister.
The document published by El Mundo newspaper fanned a scandal that has outraged Spaniards suffering in a recession and had sparked calls for Rajoy to resign earlier this year.
Full StorySweltering temperatures and scorching sunshine have killed three people and sent more than 2,500 to hospital across Japan in a week, the government said Tuesday.
The mercury hit 39.1 Celsius (102.4 Fahrenheit) in Yamanashi in the center of the country on Tuesday, while dozens of other spots recorded temperatures of 35 Celsius or more.
Full StoryChinese police opened fire on Tibetans marking the Dalai Lama's 78th birthday, shooting at least one monk in the head and seriously wounding several other people, two overseas groups said Tuesday.
Security forces disrupted Tibetans in Sichuan province's Daofu county as they carried out rituals to honor their exiled leader, whom Beijing denounces as a separatist, said the US-based International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) and India-based phayul.com.
Full StorySomalia's Shebab insurgents killed at least one person Tuesday when they set off a homemade bomb in the capital's main market, busy with shoppers preparing for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Shebab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab said its fighters had set off an improvised explosive device targeting security officials in Mogadishu's Bakara market, claiming to have killed three officials and wounded three others.
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