Bangla, India border talks begin
Dhaka: Cross-border movement of criminals, and smuggling of firearms and narcotics are expected to dominate a crucial bi-annual border talks between India and Bangladesh that began here on Sunday. "The formal talks has begun at the Border Guard Bangladesh headquarters...," a spokesman of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) said.
2 bystanders wounded in Manhattan shooting
New York: Police officers fired three shots on a crowded Manhattan street near Times Square, missing the man they believed had a weapon but striking two bystanders, police said.
2 Pak Armymen killed in Afghan border blast
Islamabad/Peshawar: Two senior Pakistan Army officers and a soldier were on Sunday killed in an IED blast while they were returning after visiting posts along the Pak-Afghan border in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Nearly 100 Philippine rebels captured
Zamboanga (Philippines): Nearly 100 Muslim guerrillas who have held scores of people hostage for a week in a southern Philippine city have been killed or captured in an offensive to retake rebel-held coastal communities, officials said on Sunday.
Al-Qaeda's Yemeni commander dead
Sanaa: Yemen's al-Qaeda branch has confirmed that a US strike killed one of its leaders at the end of last month. It said in a statement posted on Saturday on a militant website that Qaid al-Dahab was killed by a "perfidious American air raid" in the el-Manaseh region of Bayda province, along with one other person.
Mine collapse kills 27 in north Afghanistan
Kabul: A coal mine collapse has killed at least 27 miners in the north of Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday, with rescue efforts under way to save about 12 workers trapped underground. Emergency teams rushed to the scene after the mine collapsed in a remote area of Samangan province yesterday, and bodies were being brought out of the accident site.
Pak police arrest 21 foreign students
Islamabad: At least 21 foreign students staying without valid documents were arrested by police in an early morning raid on two madrassas in Pakistan's Punjab province, media reports said. The madrassas reportedly belonged to Qazi Hamidullah Khan - a teacher of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar, the Express Tribune said.
Sujatha Singh meets Nepal President
Kathmandu: Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh on Sunday called on Nepalese President Ram Baran Yadav and interim Government Chief Khil Raj Regmi and discussed latest political developments and bilateral ties, including security cooperation. During the high-level discussion between Regmi and Singh, issues surrounding the upcoming Constituent Assembly elections dominated the talks, Foreign Ministry sources said here.