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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Every night around 8 o’clock, the terrified residents of Swat, a lush and picturesque valley a hundred miles from three of Pakistan’s most important cities, crowd around their radios. They know that failure to listen...
A woman tried to sell incense to a passenger on Saturday in Mumbai, where the wealthy have a new sense of their vulnerability.
MUMBAI, India — Last Wednesday, an extraordinary public interest lawsuit was filed in this city’s highest...
An interdenominational prayer service on Thursday at Saint Xavier
MUMBAI, India — The Mumbai police on Thursday identified a second Pakistani terrorist as an engineer of the bloody assaults on the city last week and confirmed that they...
A bullet hole was visible on Monday in the window of a pizza restaurant at Chhatrapati Shivaji in Mumbai.
MUMBAI, India — In a new sign of rising tensions between two nuclear-armed neighbors, Indian officials summoned Pakistan’s ambassador...
An Indian commando rappelled from a helicopter onto the roof of a Jewish Center on Friday.
MUMBAI, India — Indian commandos staged a dramatic helicopter raid and battled pockets of militants on Friday as security forces tried to end...
Al Qaeda suicide bombers could target New York City subways, federal security officials say.
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities have received a “plausible but unsubstantiated” report that al Qaeda may have discussed targeting...
An injured man is carried to a hospital in Mumbai.
Several people have been killed in a series of coordinated attacks targeting sites popular with tourists and business people, according to police and CNN’s sister network in India.
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When Roqaya Khalili wants to visit friends or relatives, or do the weekly shopping at the supermarket, she picks up the phone and dials a four-digit number.
A few minutes later, a bright green taxi draws up outside Roqaya’s home in a suburb...
In Peshawar on Saturday, Pakistanis condemned an American missile attack that killed a British militant.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A British militant who was a liaison to Al Qaeda and was a main suspect in the plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners...
Thousands of graduates crowd a jobs fair in Nanjing but vacancies are becoming harder to find.
BEIJING, China – China’s job outlook is “grim,” and the global financial crisis could cause more layoffs and more labor...
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