NewsmaxWorld RSS FeedTue, 21 May 2013 07:49:27 EDTAn international rights group says the number of Afghan women and girls jailed for "moral crimes" has risen dramatically in the past 18 months.Mon, 20 May 2013 11:42:01 EDTPakistan's presumptive prime minister has called for peace talks with Taliban militants at war with the government.Mon, 20 May 2013 06:54:06 EDTA Pakistani court on Monday granted bail to former army chief and president Pervez Musharraf who has been under house arrest on charges of failing to provide adequate security for former prime minister Benazir Bhutto before her 2007 assassination.Mon, 20 May 2013 06:41:28 EDTIndia and China will study new ways to ease tensions along their ill-defined border, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday in his first foreign trip since taking office, which comes just weeks after a military stand-off between the Asian giants in the Himalayas.Mon, 20 May 2013 03:38:27 EDTThe Philippines may evacuate its 87,000 workers in Taiwan if tensions over the killing of a fisherman lead to widespread violence against Filipinos.Mon, 20 May 2013 03:34:21 EDTAfghan officials say a suicide bomber has struck outside a provincial council building in the country's north. A lawmaker says the council chief and at least seven others were killed.Sun, 19 May 2013 10:23:59 EDTThe killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by a Philippines patrol has unleashed anger at the country's stagnation under President Ma Ying-jeou.Sun, 19 May 2013 07:40:22 EDTPakistan held a repeat election on Sunday in an upscale area of the southern city of Karachi that was plagued with allegations of vote-rigging, despite the shooting death of a senior member of former cricket star Imran Khan's party.Sun, 19 May 2013 06:59:46 EDTAfghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan's disputed border with Pakistan. Sun, 19 May 2013 06:16:52 EDTU.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon voiced concern on Sunday over North Korea's launch of short-range missiles, urging Pyonyang to refrain from further launches and return to stalled nuclear talks with world powers. Sat, 18 May 2013 07:21:54 EDTRockfalls were hampering rescue efforts after a tunnel collapse four days ago at a giant Indonesian copper mine and hopes are fading of finding alive any of the 23 still missing.Sat, 18 May 2013 06:54:56 EDTAfghanistan's parliament failed to pass a law on Saturday banning violence against women, a severe blow to progress made in women's rights in the conservative Muslim country since the Islamist Taliban was toppled over a decade ago.Fri, 17 May 2013 12:14:37 EDTBombs that exploded outside two mosques in a village in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 15 people Friday, underlining the challenge of militant violence facing a new government set to take power under the leadership of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.Fri, 17 May 2013 04:39:14 EDTChinese President Xi Jinping has taken charge of drawing up ambitious reform plans to revitalize the economy, sources close to the government said, shunning policy stimulus for fear it could worsen local government debt and inflate property prices.Fri, 17 May 2013 04:30:51 EDTRussia, predicting instability once NATO-led troops withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of next year, is considering deploying border guards on the Tajik-Afghan border, Moscow's envoy to Kabul told Reuters in an interview.Wed, 15 May 2013 09:34:23 EDTTaiwan imposed sanctions against the Philippines on Wednesday, rejecting as unacceptable a Philippine apology for the killing of a fisherman from Taiwan last week.Wed, 15 May 2013 09:30:19 EDTA Pakistani official says thousands of people have been displaced over the past week after the military launched an operation against militants in a tribal area in the country's northwest.Wed, 15 May 2013 08:55:10 EDTAuthorities in Myanmar struggled on Wednesday to evacuate tens of thousands of people, most of them Rohingya Muslims, before a cyclone reaches camps in low-lying regions that have been their home since ethnic and religious unrest last year.Wed, 15 May 2013 08:51:18 EDTTwo bombs exploded at a checkpoint outside a provincial governor's compound in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least one police officer, an official said.Wed, 15 May 2013 04:49:36 EDTExperts judged on Wednesday that a reactor on Japan's west coast is located on ground at high risk of an earthquake, setting in motion a process that will likely lead to the first permanent shutdown of a nuclear plant since the 2011 Fukushima crisis.