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Former East Timor governor, Jose Osorio Abilio Soares, has been found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to three years in jail -- the first verdict against an Indonesian official for the violence that swept Timor in 1999.

At least 12 people have been killed and four wounded when suspected militants in India's remote northeast opened fire on a truck traveling to a local market, police and other sources said.

Security is heavy along the route of a religious pilgrimage in Indian-controlled Kashmir as devotees continue their journey, two days after suspected Islamic militants killed nine Hindus while they rested at a camp.

The mayor of the Japanese city of Hiroshima has delivered a stinging rebuke to the Bush administration on the 57th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on his city in 1945.

Hong Kong's leader Tung Chee Hwa is the highest paid official in Asia, taking home a salary that also outstrips U.S. President George W. Bush and towers above the pay packet of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

A woman who embraced elderly men so she could rob them has been arrested by Singapore police.

The discovery of a vast archive of imperial Chinese documents written on bamboo slips could provide important clues on how China's writing system developed, archaeologists have said.

In an Independence Day address to the nation, India's prime minister has accused Pakistan of attempting to control the troubled region of Jammu and Kashmir through cross-border terrorism.

In an Independence Day address to the nation, India's leader has accused Pakistan of having double standards on terrorism -- his strongest words against his arch-rival and neighbor since the two pulled back from the brink of war in June.

Security is tight at government buildings across India ahead of Independence Day celebrations with authorities saying they anticipate trouble from Islamic fundamentalist militants.

At least 12 people have been killed and four wounded when suspected militants in India's remote northeast opened fire on a truck traveling to a local market, police and other sources said.

An anti-war film that depicts the euphoria after India's first successful nuclear tests and the horror of September 11 has been deemed too provocative for Indian eyes.

Iraq's trade minister has said his country will only resume importing Australian wheat once the Australian government drops its support for a U.S. strike on Iraq.

Chinese President Jiang Zemin is bracing for a series of attacks from members of the Communist party's liberal wing, including former party chief Zhao Ziyang.

A selective ban has been put in place on Kabul TV that will keep certain explicit Indian films -- featuring singing and dancing -- off state-run television.

India has said the deadly attacks in Kashmir on Tuesday prove there can be no hope for peace until Pakistan takes more steps to prevent militant activity in the region.

At least 20 people have been killed in violence across the disputed region of Kashmir.

Two separate gunbattles in Indian-controlled Kashmir have claimed the lives of seven people -- the most intense, a nine-hour firefight between Indian soldiers and rebels that left four suspected militants and an army captain dead.

At least four soldiers were killed in heavy shelling between Pakistan and India in the disputed Kashmir region, as violence appeared to be returning to pre-May levels.

Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has assured Afghan leader Hamid Karzai that Tehran would not interfere in Afghanistan's internal affairs and called on other countries to do the same.

In an attempt to improve bilateral relations between Japan and North Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will visit Pyongyang on September 17, a government spokesman announced Friday.

North and South Korea have indicated that significant progress is being made in high-level talks aimed at reviving the stalled reconciliation process on their divided peninsula.

South Korea opened fresh talks with Pyongyang demanding a formal apology for a naval clash on the Yellow Seas five weeks earlier.

Torrential rains have caused havoc across North and South Korea, killing or injuring scores of people.

Officials from North and South Korea have begun three days of high-level talks in Seoul aimed at restarting the reconciliation process stalled since last November.

A weeklong U.S. air assault mission in eastern Afghanistan wrapped up Sunday with at least one of its primary targets at large, U.S. Army sources said.

The National Library of Australia says it is looking at collecting pornographic websites to add to an already extensive collection of printed erotica that includes such learned journals as Big 'n' Bouncy and Bra Busters.

Romance is not dead in China but it was certainly hard to find on the communist nation's Valentine's Day.

Gen. Tommy Franks, who's heading the U.S.-led mission in Afghanistan from his Tampa, Florida, headquarters, was in the war region Sunday, where he addressed allegations that the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance suffocated some Taliban prisoners.

Reports coming out of China say that up to 500,000 peasants in the poverty-stricken province of Henan are believed to be infected with the HIV virus -- or are already dying from AIDS -- after they gave blood in a government-sponsored blood-for-money program. Unsanitary practices spread tainted blood for years in the 1990s, and now, whole families and villages are dying from AIDS, whose symptoms t...

China's flood surge is heading towards the city of Wuhan, with a population of seven million, where the high water levels are expected to reach Monday.

Up to 45 people are missing and presumed dead after the bus they were traveling on plunged into a river in western Nepal, officials say.

Monsoon floods have killed more than 900 people in South Asia, and have forced millions to flee their homes.

Monsoon floods have killed more than 900 people in South Asia, and have forced millions to flee their homes.

As a tropical storm swirled off the coast of southern China Monday, it threatened to bring more torrential rains to southern China, where storms, landslides and flooding have left hundreds dead.

Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf has set out sweeping constitutional changes that boost the power of his presidency, just two months ahead of national elections.

The mayor of the Japanese city of Nagaskai has criticized the United States for what he called its unilateralist approach to global disarmament.

A tourist plane has crashed in western Nepal, killing all 18 people on board police say.

The head of South Korea's largest business newspaper has been named as the country's prime minister, a day after the main opposition party took control of parliament.

A nuclear capable missile as well as new helicopters and tanks are set to go into production as part of a series of moves to bolster India's defense forces.

The United States has called on Pyongyang to live up to its side of a nuclear deal as work began on the foundations of a U.S-led nuclear power plant project for North Korea.

Residents of this island paradise are proving keen to lend police a hand in solving the island's first murder in more than 150 years.

A South Korean delegation has left for the North for talks aimed at resuming the stalled dialogue between the neighbors.

An apparent grenade attack by militants killed one civilian and wounded 14 others Tuesday in the southern Anantnag district of Indian-administered Kashmir, Indian officials said.

South Korea's main opposition party has seized control of the National Assembly after winning a landslide victory in parliamentary by-elections.

Pakistan has accused Indian military forces of launching an unprovoked attack on a Pakistani army post in the disputed region of Kashmir.

A court in Pakistan has postponed until Saturday its verdict in the case of 14 men accused of gang raping a woman on the orders of a tribal council.

Pakistani election officials have given preliminary approval to an application from deposed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to run for national assembly, apparently challenging a ban set by the nation's president General Pervez Musharraf.

Papua New Guinea finally has a new prime minister and government, more than seven weeks after national polling began.

Wrapping up an eight-nation regional tour, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said he was very pleased with the contribution Southeast Asian nations have made to the global fight against terrorism.