PAKISTAN

At his swearing-in ceremony, India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi met leaders from various neighboring countries.

Modi was sworn in as India's prime minister Monday, after a landmark victory that gave his party the first parliamentary majority in 30 years.

The Taliban said it would target Afghan troops, but it's unclear if they are behind the attack.

Other leaders from the eight-member South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, or SAARC, bloc are also on the guest list.

The solicitor general has given up fighting a court order to release of the memorandum.

But Washington, and other western governments, have yet to call the military's action a coup.

Sakir Hussain, who was involved in human trafficking and smuggling fake Indian currency, was arrested by Sri Lankan and Malaysian officials.

India's new leader focused mainly on the economy during his campaign. But his relationship with foreign countries may be equally consequential.

Labor rights advocates and union representatives are calling this the largest-ever strike to hit U.S. fast-food companies.

The American man was detained after Pakistani authorities found he tried to board a plane with ammunition and unknown electronic devices.

In 2013, nearly 55 drone strikes killed about 271 people in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia while 532 people were killed in 2012.

A list featuring Time magazine's "Most Influential People" came out Thursday.

On Thursday, large cities like Mumbai and Chennai, and small towns across India voted for more than 2,000 candidates.

The White House will soon provide Congress a secretive dossier on about 50 non-Afghan detainees in a U.S. military prison north of Kabul.

There's a belief among White House officials that Afghan security forces have become strong enough to contain the Taliban-led insurgency.

About a dozen planned power projects may lessen Pakistan's energy shortage.

Nisha Biswal, U.S. assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, said economic growth in South Asia hinged on India as the region's growth engine.

The 52-page document spells out, mostly in ambiguous and intentionally vanilla terms, the party’s vision for its rule in India.

PM candidate Narendra Modi is already a highly controversial figure due largely to events that took place in his native state of Gujarat in 2002.

The latest action is a broadening of its decision to suspend cooperation with Moscow over Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region.

It will take six weeks for results to be declared in the race to succeed President Hamid Karzai.