India's deputy prime minister said yesterday that car bombings in Mumbai and a spate of attacks in Indian Kashmir could hurt a peace process with Pakistan.

Russia's representative at talks on the North Korean nuclear crisis said yesterday all six sides had basically agreed on a document to be signed today and planned to meet again by October, Itar-Tass

The tribesmen of Mohmand, a hitherto inaccessible strip of Pakistan's porous frontier with Afghanistan, insist al-Qaeda have never been tolerated here.

The founder of Mumbai's ruling far-right Hindu party called for India to unleash "terrorism" on rival Pakistan Thursday to avenge car bombings in the city that left 52 people dead.

With the Bush administration signaling for the first time it might agree to a UN-sponsored multinational force in Iraq, the United States and Britain intend to explore a new UN resolution to encourage

Sleeping bags cluttered the pavement outside a London courtroom on Thursday as bleary-eyed Britons and jeering demonstrators lined up to watch Prime Minister Tony Blair face a tough day in the witness

The Islamic radical group Hamas rejected yesterday an appeal by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to call a new halt to its attacks on Israel as diplomatic efforts to salvage the troubled Middle East

A British soldier was killed in southern Iraq, formerly considered an oasis of calm, as resistance to the US-led coalition carried on unabated five months after the fall of Saddam Hussein.