ISLAMABAD – Pakistan intensified its crackdown against Islamist militants on Thursday, with the government announcing it had taken control of 182 religious schools and detained more than 100 people as part of its push against banned groups. The move represents Pakistan’s biggest move against banned organisations in years […]
JAMMU/SRINAGAR, India – A grenade explosion orchestrated by a Pakistan-based militant group at a bus stand in Jammu killed one person and wounded at least 32 on Thursday, police said. The blast came three weeks after an attack by another Pakistan-based group killed 40 Indian paramilitary police in […]
NEW DELHI – The leader of a hardline Hindu group in India on Thursday justified the beating of two street vendors from mostly Muslim Kashmir by his members, saying “suspicious” Kashmiris had to be watched after a deadly bombing in the disputed region. The assault on the fruit […]
SHENZHEN, China — Chinese tech giant Huawei is challenging a U.S. law that would limit its American sales of telecom equipment on security grounds as the company steps up efforts to preserve its access to global markets for next-generation communications. Huawei Technologies Ltd.’s lawsuit, announced Thursday, asks a […]
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A civilian was killed and at least 30 others were injured by a grenade blast at a bus station in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir on Thursday, police said. The grenade was hurled at the main bus station in Jammu city and rolled beneath […]
NEW DELHI — Someday, the family says, the 7-year-old will save them. “I’ll fight,” the boy’s mother said when her husband insisted their son start working. She vowed he would stay in school, no matter what. More than 20 years ago, Ruby Khan and her husband, Nisar, came […]
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s military said Thursday it is carefully monitoring North Korean nuclear and missile facilities after the country’s spy agency told lawmakers that new activity was detected at a research center where the North is believed to build long-range missiles targeting the U.S. mainland. […]
SAN FRANCISCO — After building a social network that turned into a surveillance system, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he’s shifting his company’s focus to messaging services designed to serve as fortresses of privacy. Instead of just being the network that connects everyone, Facebook wants to encourage small numbers […]
BEIJING — Imports of canola, a Canadian oilseed crop, will now undergo more thorough inspections in China, the country’s customs agency said Thursday, amid what appears to be a retaliatory move amid a diplomatic row over the arrest of a Chinese executive. Relations between Canada and China have […]
TOKYO — Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn’s release from detention nearly four months after his arrest has gripped Japan, giving the public a rare glimpse into how the criminal justice system works. Ghosn was recuperating Thursday, his lawyer said, after leaving the Tokyo Detention Center the evening before, […]
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