LAHORE, Pakistan – Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was in custody on Saturday, a day after the deadliest attacks in Pakistan's turbulent election campaign killed more than 130 people, including one candidate. …
Read More »69 people die in electoral violence before the return of Sharif
Police officers are deployed at the Lahore airport in Pakistan on Friday, July 13, 2018. Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will be flown by helicopter to the federal capital of Islamabad when …
Read More »The latest: the bomb explodes near Pakistan’s election rally
Shahbaz Sharif, brother of former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who heads Pakistan's Muslim League, delivers a press conference in Lahore, Pakistan, on Thursday, July 12, 2018. Shahbaz Sharif condemned the arrest …
Read More »11 bodies, 10 of them hanging, found in New Delhi
by Aijaz Hussain | AP July 1 at 8:31 a.m. NEW DELHI – Police in the Indian capital said Sunday they found 11 bodies in a home in mysterious circumstances, including 10 …
Read More »Protesters angry about the 7-year-old rape block the streets of India
by Associated Press June 30 at 8:55 PM NEW DELHI – Hundreds of people blocked streets on Saturday and closed businesses in parts of central India to protest the violation of A …
Read More »Report on trafficking in persons highlights the vulnerability of children
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, accompanies Ivanka Trump, the daughter and assistant to President Donald Trump, during an event to announce the 2018 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) ceremony at the State …
Read More »Plane crashes in Mumbai; unclear low
by Associated Press June 28 at 4:37 a.m. MUMBAI, India – Indian police say a chartered plane owned by a state government crashed in a busy district of Mumbai, the financial country …
Read More »New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern in the hospital for childbirth
ARCHIVE – On May 22, 2018, archive photo, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addresses the Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand. Ardern arrived on Thursday, June 21, 2018, to the largest public …
Read More »It is not easy: complex mass migration, politics, restructuring of the world
PARIS – Lined up before dawn, dozens of immigrants in front of a government office in Italy rubbed shoulders to be one of the few insiders who applied for asylum on Wednesday. …
Read More »Activist for the rights of Pakistanis briefly kidnapped
by Associated Press June 6 at 3:01 AM LAHORE, Pakistan – A rights activist known for her criticism of the Pakistan Army was kidnapped and held for several hours in the city …
Read More »