AP A car bomb exploded outside a mosque Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass-casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this ...
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
The gang rape in India of a young woman and her resulting death last month sparked a national outcry and calls for harsh punishment of the five people charged with the crime. Now the case of one of those suspects, a 17-year-old, is generating ...
A ceasefire took hold Thursday in disputed Kashmir after the Indian and Pakistani armies agreed to halt deadly cross-border firing that had threatened to unravel a fragile peace process. The two countries reached an “understanding” Wednesday to “de-escalate” military tensions after the recent flare-up ...
New York AFP-JIJI Pakistan’s foreign minister has called for talks with her Indian counterpart to ease tensions over the recent deadly clashes in Kashmir. Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said Wednesday in New York that 10 days of fighting over the unofficial border had ...
Pakistan has accused India of “warmongering” over deadly clashes in divided Kashmir, while calling for talks to end a flare-up that India has warned spells the end of “business as usual.” Diplomats have cautioned against allowing a spate of cross-border killings to wreck a ...
A revival plan proposed by India’s troubled Kingfisher Airlines is not enough to get the carrier back in the skies, an Aviation Ministry official said Friday. Kingfisher has been grounded since October and boss Vijay Mallya hopes to restart limited operations in March, but ...
An Indian magistrate ruled Monday that the media would not be allowed to attend pretrial hearings or the trial of the five men accused of raping and killing a young student in the Indian capital, a police official said. Magistrate Namrita Aggarwal upheld the ...
Mumbai AFP-JIJI India’s troubled Kingfisher Airlines has lost its permit to fly after a deadline to renew its suspended license expired, the national aviation regulator said Tuesday. The news is a fresh blow for the debt-laden carrier whose operations have been grounded since October ...
When Sonali Mukherjee spurned the advances of three of her fellow students, they responded by melting her face with acid. But rather than hide herself away, the 27-year-old applied to appear on India’s most-watched TV quiz show — and walked away a millionaire. “If ...
An Indian policeman injured in clashes during a violent protest over a gang-rape in New Delhi died Tuesday, a police spokesman said, as much of the city center remained sealed off following the clashes. Subash Tomar, a 47-year-old constable deployed at the India Gate ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to tighten defense ties with India and double levels of bilateral trade within three years as he headed to New Delhi for a summit on Monday. Accompanied by several senior ministers and military officials, Putin will meet Prime Minister ...
