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Pakistani police have arrested nine suspected al Qaeda members during a raid on a house in the city of Lahore.

Asian countries have reacted with outrage to calls from Australia's prime minister for pre-emptive action against terrorists operating in Southeast Asia.

Tight security and pleas for peace after a tumultuous 12 months have marked the welcoming of the New Year across the Asia Pacific region.

Asian nations need to make a better effort to police themselves and get rid of terrorists, senior White House official Richard Armitage has said during a tour of the region.

Asian nations need to make a better effort to police themselves and get rid of terrorists, senior White House official Richard Armitage has said during a tour of the region.

At least 18 people were killed and more than 80 injured when an express train derailed in southern India early Saturday morning.

Australia has retained the Ashes after crushing England by an innings and 48 runs to win the third test inside three days.

Australia will relocate its embassy in the Philippines, and may move two other missions into stronger 'fortress-style' compounds due to heightened fears of terrorist attack.

Diplomatic relations between Canberra and Hanoi are being tested again following a court decision to uphold a death sentence against an Australian citizen convicted on drug charges.

The sectarian tensions in the north Indian town of Ayodhya have a history dating back more than 400 years.

U.S. Special Forces came under intense fire in western Afghanistan over the weekend, needing the firepower of a B-52 bomber to deter their attackers.

There are fears terrorists in Southeast Asia are adopting new tactics after Indonesia's chief inspector confirmed that DNA from the site of the October Bali blasts matches that of a suspected suicide bomber.

A blast rocked the food court in the Mumbai Central train station Friday, injuring 21 people, six of them seriously.

The Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels have agreed to a peace deal to share power under a federal system of government, paving the way for an end to almost two decades of civil war.

China has moved a step closer to its first manned space flight with the successful launch Monday of its fourth unmanned spacecraft, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Rescue workers in China say they have pulled 26 bodies from the scorched shafts of a mine in the country's northeast after a devastating underground blaze broke out last Friday.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton says he had plans in the early 1990s to attack and destroy North Korea's nuclear facilities after the secretive communist state was found to be producing weapons-grade plutonium.

New Delhi's new underground train system has got off to a rocky start as nearly 1 million commuters -- and the merely curious -- swamped stations and trains, at times bringing the system to a standstill Wednesday.

North Korea began removing seals and monitoring equipment last weekend that were placed by international nuclear inspectors on the Yongbyon nuclear reactor, which is capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium.

Three men convicted of aiding a deadly terrorist attack on Indian parliament last year which brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war have been sentenced to death.

Over the weekend, the North Korean government announced it would remove more international monitoring equipment used to track the country's nuclear weapons program.

Newly freed Chinese dissident Xu Wenli has arrived in the United States to an emotional reunion with his daughter at Chicago's O'Hare airport.

Up to nine people were wounded on Tuesday by a small explosion near a hotel in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, close to the capital Islamabad, police and hospital officials said.

Cooler, calmer weather and the prospect of rain has Sydney fire authorities cautiously confident that they can gain the upper hand on about 70 blazes that have threatened the city since last Wednesday.

Only five days after Nepal's Maoists pledged to drop attacks on non-defense targets, five people -- including two soldiers -- were killed on Sunday in a rebel ambush on a bus, police said.

In his last public appearance in March last year, General Ne Win appeared a mere shadow of the powerful figure he once was.

Suspected Islamic militants have burst into a home in Kashmir early Saturday morning and opened fire, killing four people and wounding four others.

A special court has found four defendants guilty in last December's attack on the Indian parliament that killed 14 people.

Germany has launched an investigation into the Afghanistan helicopter crash that killed seven of its peacekeepers.

Commuters in New Delhi frustrated by interminable traffic jams and soaring levels of road rage have received a belated Christmas present -- a new underground rail system.

Travellers in New Delhi are to be offered an escape from interminable traffic jams and road rage -- a new underground rail system.

At least 27 people have been hurt in a grenade attack on Indian forces in the disputed state of Kashmir, police say.

North Korean doctors are saying that an American, accused by the U.S. military of being a defector, is sick because he has been separated from his Japanese wife.

An International Security Assistance Force helicopter has crashed near Kabul killing at least five German peacekeepers.

A bomb has ripped through a public bus in Hyderabad, killing two and injuring at least 13, police said.

Two people have been killed and at least 19 were injured in three rocket attacks in the northeastern Indian city of Guwahati.

Security forces across India are on high alert for the 10th anniversary of the demolition of a mosque by Hindu extremists that triggered some of the country's worst sectarian violence.

Iranian president Mohammad Khatami says his country wants to work with its neighbors to improve security and stability in the region.

China and Russia have made a joint call for North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program, urging Pyongyang and Washington to normalize diplomatic relations.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has signed a decree to create a national army to replace Afghanistan's many private militias.

Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has begun a visit to Pakistan looking to push forward plans for a massive gas pipeline project linking Iranian gas fields with Pakistan and India.

Malaysian officials have banned a car advert featuring Hollywood heartthrob Brad Pitt, saying the promotion could be humiliating to Asian looks.

More ASEAN countries could be invited to hold joint Cabinet meetings following a successful, if informal, debut meeting by Thai and Malaysian ministers.

Malaysia says it is delighted after being awarded a pair of tiny islands that have some of the world's best dive spots, and whose title has been the subject of a decades old dispute with Indonesia.

An ambush by Maoist rebels in remote eastern Indian has left 18 police officers dead and 20 others wounded, officials say.

More than 50,000 South Koreans have rallied in Seoul to protest the deaths of two teenage girls killed after being hit by a U.S. military vehicle.

In an apparent about face, Nepal's rebel Maoists have vowed to halt attacks on civilian infrastructure and have set up a committee to hold peace talks with the government.

North Korea has started removing U.N. monitoring equipment and nuclear fuel rods from a deactivated nuclear power plant, a South Korean government official has said.

U.N. weapons inspectors have arrived in Beijing after being expelled from North Korea, leaving behind an unmonitored nuclear program in a nation the United States has dubbed part of an axis of evil.

North Korea is accusing the United States of blocking humanitarian food aid in retaliation for Pyongyang's decision to reactivate a nuclear reactor suspected of being used to produce material for nuclear weapons.