AFP, NEW DELHI: India on Monday accused Pakistani militant leader Maulana Masood Azhar of masterminding an audacious attack on an air force base in January that led to a breakdown in relations between the two nuclear-armed nations.Seven soldiers were killed in the attack on the Indian air force base…

AFP, MANILA: Philippine Catholic leaders and rights groups on Monday condemned as “barbaric” President Rodrigo Duterte’s plan to restore the death penalty and execute “five or six” criminals daily. Duterte, 71, has made reviving the death penalty in the mainly Catholic…

AFP, RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has been lobbying US legislators to change a law allowing victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks to sue the kingdom, he said on Sunday. Adel al-Jubeir told reporters he has just returned from an extended stay in the United States, which was partly…

AFP, KATHMANDU: A 15-year-old girl has died in Nepal after she was banished to a shed because she was menstruating, under an ancient Hindu practice that has been banned for over a decade, police said Monday. Some Hindus view menstruating women as impure and in parts of Nepal they are forced to remain…

AFP, BEIJING: China on Monday rejected US President-elect Donald Trump’s claim that it had “stolen” an American research drone, as state media said his diplomatic inexperience could spark a confrontation between the two nations. Beijing’s seizure of the marine probe in international…

AFP, BEIJING: Chinese state media said Monday US President-elect Donald Trump’s diplomatic inexperience could spark a confrontation between the…