KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan will limit foreign involvement in two major anti-crime units in a move likely to worry its Western backers and stoke fears about President Hamid Karzai's commitment to fighting endemic graft. Afghanistan is one of the world's most corrupt countries and Washington ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's capital is ready for its biggest political event in decades: giant billboards proclaim an event to make the country's "history shine forever," the dress rehearsals are complete and the army is ready. But like all things in secretive North Korea, the event ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China warned Japan on Thursday that ties would suffer if Tokyo mishandles a dispute over a Chinese boat seized in disputed seas, intensifying a territorial rift that could deepen discord between Asia's top two economies. China said Japan was playing a risky game when it ...

The explosion happened in Palaseen village, about 65 km (40 miles) northeast of the Kurram region's main town, Parachinar. "It was a remote-controlled bomb, which was detonated as soon as a passenger van got there," said Hamid Khan, deputy administrator of the region. All those killed ...

(Writing by Steve Gutterman; Editing by Conor Humphries)

Anjem Choudary added in remarks to Reuters he expected like-minded groups to stage flag burnings in the United States, Belgium, Ireland, Lebanon and Indonesia to highlight what he called the U.S. occupation of Muslim lands. Pastor Terry Jones, leader of a tiny Protestant church in Gainesville, ...

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Uncertainty over the shape of Australia's controversial mining tax is likely to last well into 2011 after national elections which returned the country's first minority government since World War Two. The 30 percent tax on big iron ore and coal mines is the centerpiece of ...

The victims, mostly Central and South American migrants, were kidnapped last month in the northern state of Tamaulipas by the feared Zetas drug gang. They were blindfolded and bound before being lined up against a wall and gunned down, authorities said. "These seven people arrested in recent ...

Asad Qureshi was abducted in March along with two former Pakistani intelligence officers when they were visiting the lawless region bordering Afghanistan while working on a documentary on militants for a British television channel. "Yes, we can confirm that Asad Qureshi has been ...

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Three former soldiers will go on trial for the 1982 massacre of more than 250 people, a judge ruled on Wednesday in the first such court case in Guatemala for crimes committed in its dark civil war past. Human rights investigators and victims' family members have accused ...