PAKISTAN

The British minister held discussions with both Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and added that he urged a quick reconciliation.

A drone aircraft crashed around noon Monday on Maryland's Eastern shore near Salisbury, but did not cause any injuries or property damage, Naval officials said.

Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's former ambassador to the U.S., was found guilty by a Pakistani commission probing allegations that the diplomat, on behalf of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, sought help of the government of the United States in ousting Islamabad's military leadership.

Talks to reopen the route are stalled, but the withdrawal of the team of low-level specialists does not indicate a significant break in U.S.-Pakistan relations

On Sunday, Israeli Vice Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz endorsed using military intervention to stop the ongoing crisis in Syria.

Attorney General Eric Holder assigned two prosecutors to look into the classified document leaks that fed two New York Times articles this past week, further heightening the profile of a debate between Democrats and Republicans about secrecy and the press.

A statement from the wife of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been released online, praising the role of women in the Arab Spring uprisings that have toppled authoritarian governments throughout North Africa and the Middle East in the past year and a half.

As the New York Times continues to defend its coverage of President Barack Obama's terrorist kill list and the White House's cyber strategy against Iran, the president said it was offensive for people to assume or believe one of his aides leaked the top secret information to the press.

Prime Minister David Cameron endorsed the law, calling forced marriage completely wrong and tantamount to ?slavery.?

Pillay says such measures raise serious legal issues.

U.S. military strategy of continued drone strikes to fight the insurgents in Pakistan and Afghanistan once again stood accused of violating international law, this time by the U.N.'s human rights chief, Navi Pillay, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, meeting in Beijing, offered statements of support for Teheran. That's bad news for American, and Western, influence in Central Asia

anetta?s bluntness suggests that the façade of cordiality between Washington and Islamabad has all but evaporated

The HRCP cited the widespread availability of weapons in the city.

This is not a threat, she told reporters in Lahore. This is a straightforward plan to kill me.

We need to deepen our defense and security co-operation, and this is why I have come to India, Panetta said.

Up until now, India?s military role in Afghanistan has been minimal.

The U.S. has cancelled millions of dollars in funding for a project to develop a Pakistani version of the popular American children's educational television program, following allegations of corruption against the local puppet theater partnering on project.

Libi, an Islamic scholar from Libya, was believed to be Al-Qaida's second-in-command

Al-Qaida's second-in-command was reportedly at the site of a drone strike in northwestern Pakistan, but his death has not yet been confirmed, a U.S. official announced Tuesday.

India is expected play an active role in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of international forces in the region, said U.S. officials on arrival of the U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in New Delhi on Tuesday.