A US special forces commando was killed during a mission in Afghanistan that succeeded in rescuing a kidnapped American doctor, the White House said Sunday. President Barack Obama said that in carrying out the raid

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Unknown gunmen shot dead a senior female government worker on Monday, officials in eastern Afghanistan said, five months after her predecessor was killed in a bomb attack. Violence against women appears to be on the

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The Taliban said Monday it would attend a conference in Paris on Afghanistan this month but would not hold peace talks with Afghan government delegates or other groups. A member of Afghanistan's government-appointed High Peace

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Cambodian Prime Minister and Asean chairman Hun Sen urged North Korea Monday to scrap a planned rocket launch, saying it would bring "fear and tension" to the region. Pyongyang on Monday pushed back the window

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North Korea has extended the window for a widely condemned long-range rocket launch by a week after discovering a "technical deficiency", the isolated state's news agency said on Monday. The launch, viewed by the United

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Greenpeace said Monday it had filed a lawsuit against the South Korean government for denying entry to half a dozen key campaigners and seeking to "silence" criticism of its nuclear policies. The environmental group said

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Ailing anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela will remain in hospital for a third day Monday and receive further undisclosed tests, but was comfortable and in "no immediate danger," the South African government said. There is "no

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Opposition lawmakers staged protests in India's parliament on Monday after reports that retail giant Walmart had been lobbying with US lawmakers to facilitate its entry into India. In a disclosure to the US Senate, Walmart

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Key Argentine corn and soya areas have been drenched by storms this month, keeping some fields under water and delaying planting while toxic fungus, bred by the excessive moisture, moves in on wheat fields. The

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The most-traded March copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange rose 0.92 percent to close at 57,980 yuan ($9,300) a tonne on Monday after data showed China's factory output growth accelerated to eight-month highs in

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