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Police say a bus full of Hindu pilgrims plunged into the Ganges River, killing 26 people in northern India.
Rescuers worked more than four hours to pull the bodies from the river late Tuesday in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.
Local Tehri district poli...

Egyptians on Wednesday and Thursday vote to elect their first president since the fall of Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 11, 2011 after 29 years of his authoritarian rule. A second round is likely to be held between the two top vote-getters on June 16-17. Here is a look at what's at stake in th...

A branch of city governments China set up to monitor everything from unlicensed street vendors to unauthorized construction is rife with abuse of power, stoking already high social tensions, a rights group said Wednesday.
The report by New York-based Human Rights Watch c...

The Philippines is accusing China of sending more government and fishing vessels to a contested shoal in the South China Sea despite ongoing talks to resolve the 2-month-old standoff.
Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez says that the number of Chinese vessels at Sca...

On Wednesday, Egypt began its first free presidential election since it came under dictatorship 60 years ago. The winner will succeed Hosni Mubarak, one of four rulers toppled in the uprisings that began 18 months ago across the Middle East and became known as the Arab Spring. But repl...

Profiles of Egypt's main presidential candidates:
AMR MOUSSA
Former head of the Arab League, he is tainted for serving Mubarak as foreign minister but popular for his criticism of Israel which he says got him fired by Mubarak. Of secular background and Wes...

Egyptians start voting in first presidential election after Hosni Mubarak's ouster last year.
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Nepal's government wants the repeatedly extended Constituent Assembly to get yet another three months to finish writing the Himalayan nation's constitution, and even members of the ruling parties are crying foul.
The assembly was elected in 2008 and was supposed to finis...

A U.S. drone fired two missiles at a compound in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing four suspected militants in an attack that comes as Washington is running out of patience with Islamabad's refusal to reopen supply routes for NATO troops in Afghanistan.
U.S. drone...

A Chinese immigrant who beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in western Canada four years ago thought he was attacking an alien, according to a mental health advocate who interviewed him.
In 2009, Vince Li was found not criminally responsible d...