US President Barack Obama met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the first of a series of meetings Wednesday with leaders from the Middle East as he relaunches the peace process.Netanyahu arrived at the White House for the private meeting with Obama that precedes…

India Sunday denied a media report that Chinese officials had confiscated brochures showing the Indian map from the Indian pavilion at the World Expo2010 in Shanghai.A national daily reported that officers from China’s Public Security Bureau marched unannounced into the Indian pavilion in July.…

With Pakistan trying to influence the outcome of the Taliban integration plan, India and Afghanistan Wednesday joined hands to ensure that terrorist and extremist groups targeting the violence-torn country and the region are denied safe havens and sanctuaries.External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna held delegation-level…

Citing the case of Pakistani-American David Headley, a classified CIA document released by whistleblower organisation Wikileaks asks what would happen if foreign countries began to view the US as an “exporter of terrorism”.The document prepared by the CIA’s “red cell”, a unit responsible for…

At least 17 people, including a former member of the National Assembly (MNA), were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque of Pakistan’s south Waziristan region Monday afternoon, a political agent of the area said.The blast took place in the…

Three bombings killed at least 36 people, including a former member of the national parliament, Monday in Pakistan’s tribal region and adjoining north-western frontier province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, officials said.In the first attack, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the main gate of…

A sacked police officer seized a tourist bus and opened fire at his hostages, killing eight of them, before he was shot dead by police ending an over 10-hour-long hostage drama in a seaside park in Manila city Monday.Eight of the dead were Chinese…

The United States has asked Pakistan to have a constructive relationship with India and Afghanistan, saying effective and coordinated action across the region was needed to meet the common threat of terrorism.“These are individual judgments made country by country,” State Department spokesman P J…

President Lech Kaczynski, who died in a plane crash Saturday, was elected Polish head of state in December 2005.The portly, 60-year-old gained the national limelight at the age of 13 when he and his twin brother Jaroslav starred in the children’s film called “About…

US President Barack Obama said Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has made “an unacceptable omission” when he chose April as the “Confederate History Month” without a mention of slavery, a media report said.“I’m a big history buff. And I think that understanding the history of…