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Ebay founder Omidyar commits $50 million to combating global slavery

Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife are to donate $50 million to tackling slavery worldwide, th...

Nov 19, 2014 09:32 AM EST

Company denies rat poison in pills linked to India sterilization deaths

The company at the center of a probe into why more than a dozen women died after being sterilized in...

Nov 16, 2014 02:12 AM EST

India, Pakistan lower flag at border ceremony day after deadly attack

India and Pakistan solemnly lowered their national flags at a dusk military ceremony on their main l...

Nov 03, 2014 10:44 AM EST

Bangladesh Islamist leader sentenced to death for war crimes

A Bangladesh war crimes court convicted an Islamist party leader on Sunday of atrocities during the ...

Nov 02, 2014 05:36 AM EST

India's Ranbaxy to pay $40 million to settle Texas Medicaid pricing litigation

Indian generic drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd said it has agreed to pay $39.75 million to settle...

Oct 16, 2014 02:43 AM EDT

Pakistani teen, Indian activist win Nobel Peace Prize

Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for advocating ...

Oct 11, 2014 07:22 AM EDT

More civilians hurt in worst Kashmir violence in years, Modi says all 'fine soon'

India and Pakistan exchanged more gun and mortar fire in the disputed Kashmir region on Thursday, in...

Oct 09, 2014 01:57 AM EDT

India and Pakistan intensify Himalayan border conflict

Fighting intensified between India and Pakistan in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir on Wedne...

Oct 08, 2014 02:49 AM EDT

Japan student suspected of trying to join Islamic State

Tokyo police are investigating the possibility that a Japanese student tried to travel to Syria to j...

Oct 07, 2014 04:53 AM EDT

Rising rural wages in Asia will reduce extreme poverty: report

The rise in rural wages now taking place across Asia could lift hundreds of millions of people out o...

Oct 02, 2014 04:19 AM EDT

India arrests 140 for Hindu-Muslim clashes as PM Modi tours U.S.

Police in western India have arrested 140 people after two men were stabbed during violence between ...

Oct 01, 2014 05:37 AM EDT

India's Modi jabs at Pakistan, encourages yoga in U.N. address

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday he wants to hold bilateral talks with neighbori...

Sep 28, 2014 12:43 AM EDT

Pakistan's Sharif criticizes India over collapse of Kashmir talks

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif criticized India in his address to the U.N. General Assembly i...

Sep 26, 2014 11:20 PM EDT

India, China agree to end Himalayan border face-off

India and China have agreed to pull back troops ranged against each other on a remote Himalayan plat...

Sep 26, 2014 07:33 AM EDT

India's Modi to get rock star reception in New York

It is a rock 'n' roller's dream to "sell out The Garden," but for a foreign politician to pack New Y...

Sep 23, 2014 12:54 AM EDT

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