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After months of denial and equivocation, Pakistan is officially acknowledging what India and the U.S. have long known: that last November’s Mumbai terrorism attacks were planned, at least in part, on Pakistani soil. On the same day that U.S.
The Pakistani government acknowledged Thursday that "some part of the conspiracy" behind the November attacks in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, took place in Pakistan. The comments by Rehman Malik — the head of the Interior Ministry — was Pakistan’s first formal acknowledgment that Islamic militants trained in his country were behind the plot and was welcomed as a “positive development” by India’s foreign minister.
Eight people were killed and their mutilated bodies thrown into a river over a wedding not approved by the couple’s families in eastern India, police said Wednesday.
China has killed 13,000 birds in the country’s far northwest to control what it called an epidemic of bird flu, state media reported Tuesday. Five hundred fowl that had died in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region tested positive for the H5N1 virus, according to China’s Ministry of Agriculture.
When U.S.-led forces toppled the Taliban after the 9/11 attacks, then-President Bush said the goal in Afghanistan was "to build a flourishing democracy as an alternative to a hateful ideology." Seven years, billions of dollars and hundreds of U.S. casualties later, the goals are more pragmatic and modest.