NEW DELHI, Dec. 2, 2008 (Reuters) U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was flying to New Delhi on Tuesday to try to ease tension between India and Pakistan that has surged over the Mumbai attacks and put at risk U.S. counterterrorism efforts in the region. ... > full story
LANDI KOTAL, Pakistan, Dec. 2, 2008 (Reuters) Militants set off a roadside bomb in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday as trucks supplying Western forces in Afghanistan were passing by, wounding three people, a government official and witnesses said. ... > full story
GUWAHATI, India, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) At least 10 people were wounded after a bomb ripped through a passenger coach of a train in India's troubled state of Assam, officials said on Tuesday. ... > full story
MINGORA, Pakistan, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) A suicide car-bomber killed eight people on Monday in an attack aimed at a military checkpost in northwest Pakistan's Swat Valley, military officials said. ... > full story
BOSASSO, Somalia, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) Somali pirates have agreed to release a Yemeni cargo ship without ransom after successful negotiations between the hijackers, local elders and a Yemeni official, a local official said Monday. ... > full story
KUWAIT, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) Kuwait's ruler has accepted the resignation of the government in a bid to end a crisis with parliament, but reappointed his nephew as prime minister, the speaker of the assembly said on Monday. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) Blasts at Baghdad's police academy and in the northern city of Mosul killed 29 people and wounded dozens more Monday, hours after a roadside bomb wounded a senior Iraqi official, police said. ... > full story
MOSCOW, Nov. 30, 2008 (Reuters) Gunmen killed three policemen and a passerby in Dagestan in southern Russia on Sunday, news agencies said, a region where increased violence could destabilize the whole country. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 30, 2008 (Reuters) The U.N. envoy to Iraq said on Sunday that militants will try but will fail to disrupt the country's provincial elections on January 31. ... > full story
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