Kabul, Nov.19 (ANI): Promising Thursday to prosecute corrupt government officials and end a culture of impunity during his second term, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said that his administration would move beyond the ...

Helmand (Afghanistan), Nov.18 (ANI): Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who will make his inauguration speech in Kabul tomorrow, is unlikely to carry out a major cull of his ministerial team, believe diplomats ...

Dhaka, Nov 15 (IANS) India being the larger neighbour bears the "major responsibility" to settle unresolved issues with Bangladesh, former prime minister Khaleda Zia said as the two neighbours prepared for ...

Dhaka, Nov 14 (IANS) South Asia is set for greater connectivity with India on Saturday agreeing to allow Bangladesh rail transit to landlocked Nepal. The announcement came after day-long foreign secretary-level talks ...

Bogota, Nov 12 (EFE) Nineteen rebels of Colombia's largest leftist guerrilla group have been captured in three separate operations, the police said. Fourteen rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) ...

Bogota, Nov 10 (DPA) Nine soldiers and at least 30 rebels were killed in clashes in the southwestern Colombian province of Cauca, the Colombian Army said Tuesday. The gun battle started late Monday ...

Mexico City, Nov 8 (EFE) Peruvian authorities have drafted an accord to be signed by political parties to prevent the infiltration of drug money in their nation's 2010 municipal and regional elections, ...

Dubai, Nov 7 (IANS) At least 1.5 million pills worth nearly $4 million were seized between January and October in a crackdown on illegal drug supply in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), ...

Dhaka, Nov 5 (IANS) At least 285 people have died in internecine fights between Bangladesh's left extremist groups that take their orders from "dons" in India, it was reported here Thursday. Retributive killings ...

Dhaka, Nov 5 (IANS) Rivalries between Bangladesh's Left extremist groups operating in districts bordering India's West Bengal state have led to 285 people being killed this year, a media report said Thursday. ...

London, Nov 4 (IANS) A Saudi Arabian paedophile who raped five children and left one of them to die in the desert is to be beheaded and crucified, reports said. Muhammed Basheer al-Ramaly, ...

London, Nov 4 (ANI): Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, who started his new term with a pledge to check corruption and reach out to opponents, has ruled out sacking corrupt minister and officials, ...

Washington, Nov. 3 (ANI): President Barack Obama has told Hamid Karzai to get rid of widespread corruption and the drug trade during his new term as the Afghanistan president.Obama's admonishment for ...

Kuala Lumpur, November 02 (ANI): Malaysia's Deputy Foreign Minister A. Kohilan Pillay has said that the women in the country are increasingly being conned by drug-trafficking syndicates, as they easily get charmed ...

Mexico City, Nov 1 (EFE) Over one million Mexican people are involved in the illegal drug trade including "about 200,000" women, according to Mexico police estimates. The president of an umbrella organisation of ...

Bogota, Oct 30 (DPA) Colombia and the US signed Friday a controversial military deal granting the US use of seven military bases on Colombian soil. The US-Colombian plan had been announced this summer ...

New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) Munna Bajrangi, a dreaded gangster carrying a reward of Rs.100,000 for his arrest and suspected to be behind the sensational murder of Delhi Police 'encounter specialist' ...

Hua Hin (Thailand), Oct 25 (IANS) The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) wants India to play an "important role" to help mitigate the negative impact of the current global financial ...

New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) Stating that some irresponsible states were "covertly helping the perpetrators" of cross-border terrorism, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has called for an internationally acceptable mechanism to ...

Tehran, Oct 19 (DPA) A deadly attack against Revolutionary Guards in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan has strained bilateral ties between Iran and Pakistan, Iranian state television reported Monday. Forty-two people, including at ...

Tehran, Oct 19 (DPA) The death toll rose to 42 after an apparent suicide bomb attack against Iran's Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran, Press TV reported Monday. The dead included seven senior provincial ...

New Delhi, Oct 18 (ANI): The Indian and Indonesian Navies launched the 14th cycle of coordinated patrol codenamed 'Ind-Indo Corpat' in the Indian Ocean region on Sunday. The coordinated patrols were being conducted ...

Tehran, Oct 18 (DPA) An apparent suicide bomber killed and wounded dozens of members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, including some senior provincial commanders, in southeastern Iran Sunday, state media reported. According to IRNA ...

Rio de Janeiro, Oct 18 (DPA) At least 12 people, including two policemen, were killed during shootouts between rival drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro on the weekend, officials said. Police said the ...

New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) The Indian and Indonesian navies will undertake a two-week coordinated patrol along their international maritime boundary from Sunday to check piracy, poaching, drug trafficking and illegal immigration, ...

New Delhi, Oct 16 (ANI): The Indian and Indonesian Navies are launching the 14th cycle of coordinated patrol codenamed Ind -Indo Corpat from October 18 to November 5. The coordinated patrols are conducted ...

Washington, Oct 15 (DPA) The United States placed sanctions Wednesday on the leader of Kurdish separatists operating in northern Iraq, accusing Murat Karayilan of trafficking in narcotics. The US Treasury Department sanctions against ...

New Delhi, Oct.14 (ANI): Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on Wednesday expressed deep shock and anguish over the terrorist attacks in Mumbai and reiterated the need for intensifying global cooperation ...

Kuala Lumpur, Oct 14 (DPA) Malaysian airport police detained a Philippine national who is seven months pregnant after she was allegedly caught carrying a cocaine-soaked jacket, news reports said Wednesday. The 24-year-old woman ...

Singapore, Oct. 13 (ANI): Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said his country faces a 9/11-like situation every day because of its support to the global war on terror, and added ...