AFP, India: Indian police said Tuesday said they have arrested two men for shooting dead a 14-year-old girl who resisted their advances, in the latest case of sexual violence. The two men, riding on motorbikes, had been sexually harassing the girl and her elder sister verbally as they walked home from…

AFP, France: French President Francois Hollande on Monday acknowledged that three decades of nuclear tests in French Polynesia had had "an impact" on health and the environment and promised to revamp the compensation process. Hollande's remarks, made on a visit to the French Polynesian…

AFP, Pakistan: Pakistan's military said Tuesday it had killed 15 militants in air strikes along its restive border with Afghanistan on Tuesday as part of a major offensive to clear Taliban and Al-Qaeda strongholds. The strikes were carried out in the Alwara, Khar Tangi and Maizer areas of North…

AFP, Beijing:  Beijing is installing radar facilities on its artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea, an American think tank has said, in a move analysts warned would "exponentially improve" the country's monitoring capacities. Satellite imagery of Cuarteron reef in the…

AFP, Israel: Israeli soldiers have been ordered to take their guns with them when off duty to allow them to intervene in the event of Palestinian attack, the military said on Tuesday. The decision comes after off-duty soldier Tuvia Weissman, 21, was stabbed to death at a supermarket in an Israeli industrial…

Aga Khan, the Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims on Sunday extolled Africa's resilience, economic progress and new willingness to accept diversity,…