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QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A bomb hidden in a water tank ripped through a crowded vegetable market in a mostly Shiite neighborhood in a southwestern Pakistani city Saturday, killing at least 63 people and wounding some 180, officials said.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Angry over civilian deaths, President Hamid Karzai announced plans Saturday to ban Afghan security forces from requesting international airstrikes on residential areas.

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — For many in Bangladesh, the "V'' for victory sign was more than they could bear.

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani official says the death toll in the evening bombing at a vegetable market in the city of Quetta has jumped to 60.

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani official says the death toll in the evening bombing at a vegetable market in the city of Quetta has jumped to 47.

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — The death toll from a bombing at a market in Pakistan's southwest has risen to 25, Pakistani police said on Saturday. Many of the 70 people wounded in the blast were still in critical condition.

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — The death toll from a bombing at a market in Pakistan's southwest has risen to 25, Pakistani Police said on Saturday. Many of the 70 people wounded in the blast were still in critical condition.

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say a bombing at a vegetable market has killed 15 people and wounded 50 others in the country's southwest.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that he will issue a decree banning Afghan security forces from asking international troops to carry out airstrikes under "any circumstances."

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Five years after setting up an umbrella organization to unite violent militant groups in the nation's tribal regions, the Pakistani Taliban is fractured, strapped for cash and losing support of local tribesmen frustrated by a protracted war that has forced thousands from their homes, analysts and …

TAMUNING, Guam (AP) — Their well-equipped arsenals offer everything from tiny revolvers (for ladies) to Berettas, Glocks, semi-automatic pistols and M16 military assault rifles. If kids can see over the counter, they are welcome too.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Indian troops shot and killed a Pakistani soldier who crossed the makeshift border separating Indian and Pakistani held Kashmir, officials said Friday, in a development that threatened to upset the delicate ceasefire in a region claimed by both countries.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad says one of its diplomats was in a traffic accident that resulted in the death of a Pakistani civilian.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan army is training female special forces to take part in night raids against insurgents, breaking new ground in an ultraconservative society and filling a vacuum left by departing international forces.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For the past decade, the world's most powerful nations have turned to sanctions in an attempt to punish North Korea for a series of rocket launches and nuclear tests. Their stated goal: to stop North Korea's march toward acquiring an arsenal of nuclear-armed long-range missiles.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It's been lauded as one of the greatest survival stories of all-time.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Romance is not dead in Pakistan, but it's under attack.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Politicians called for peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban on Thursday, as the group killed 18 people in a pair of bombings in the country's northwest on a police post and a vehicle carrying anti-Taliban militiamen.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday demanded an explanation from the new top commander of U.S. and NATO troops for an airstrike that local officials say killed 10 civilians, half of them children.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Dozens of Afghan activists and supporters marked Valentine's Day by marching in Kabul on Thursday to denounce violence against women amid reports that domestic abuse is on the rise.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police say a car bomb has exploded next to a police post in northwest Pakistan, killing seven policemen.

PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) — A roadside bomb hit a vehicle carrying members of an anti-Taliban militia in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing seven militiamen, a police spokesman said.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — He was known as Prisoner X, his crimes unknown. For months he languished in an Israeli prison until he was he was found dead in his cell in an apparent suicide. Later, rumors would swirl that he was an Australian-Israeli who worked for the Israeli secret service Mossad.