Dalai Lama “If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ”
Barack Obama “Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history.”
Ethnic unrest is escalating in China’s western Xinjiang region, where police have clashed with a large group of armed ethnic Han Chinese trying to reach a Uighur neighbourhood in the city of Urumqi.
The clashes come two days after deadly rioting in the city left at least 156 people dead and hundreds injured in the worst outbreak [...]
Seven U.S. soldiers were killed in attacks across Afghanistan on Monday, including four in one bombing in the north, amid a spike in violence as the U.S. military pushed ahead with a big new offensive, officials said.
In southern Kandahar, a suicide bomber also killed two people when he drove a car packed with explosives toward [...]
Thousands of U.S. Marines stormed deep into Taliban territory in an Afghan valley on Thursday, marking the start of a major new effort by the Obama administration to regain the initiative in the war.
The Marines met little resistance on day one of Operation Khanjar, or Strike of the Sword, to seize almost all the [...]
A court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has ruled that homosexual intercourse between consenting adults is not a criminal act.
The ruling overturns a 148-year-old colonial law which describes a same-sex relationship as an “unnatural offence”.
Homosexual acts were punishable by a 10-year prison sentence.
Many people in India regard same-sex relationships as illegitimate. Rights groups have long [...]
Thousands of U.S. Marines stormed deep into Taliban territory in an Afghan river valley Thursday, launching the biggest military offensive of Barack Obama’s presidency.
The Marines say Operation Khanjar, or Strike of the Sword, will be decisive and is intended to seize virtually the entire lower Helmand River valley, the heartland of the Taliban insurgency [...]
Taliban fighters in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan say they have pulled out of a peace deal with the Pakistan government.
The fighters in North Waziristan blamed continuing US military assaults and the Pakistani army offensive in the region against them for their decision on Tuesday.
“This accord is being scrapped because of Pakistan’s failure to stop the [...]
A provincial police chief is among 10 people reportedly killed in a gun fight with US-trained Afghan troops inside a Kandahar police headquarters.
The head of the criminal department and eight other officers were also killed, according to Ahmad Wali Karzai, the head of the area’s provincial council.
Monday’s clash reportedly happened as troops tried to remove a prisoner from the prosecutor’s office.
‘Extraordinary scenes’
Al Jazeera’s [...]
Pakistani police say they have killed five suspected anti-government fighters linked to a Taliban leader in the city of Karachi.
The police chief said the gunfight took place after officers raided an apartment in the west of the city on Saturday.
The armed men were loyal to Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban leader, and were planning attacks, Waseem Ahmed said.
The raid [...]
NEW DELHI, India (CNN) — Pista Devi struggles to keep her toes from poking out through the holes in her shoes as she pushes and pulls a wicked-looking farm tool. She is a widow, struggling to feed herself and five children.
She is bone thin but strong. She has to be. The soil is as hard [...]
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