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Unidentified gunmen Monday shot dead a top government official in southwest Pakistan in what the police believed part of the targeted killings in the region, police said.
Pakistani aircraft attacked Taliban militants in their South Waziristan stronghold near the Afghan border as the government said a ground offensive against the al Qaeda-lnked fighters was imminent.
India Monday testfired two nuclear capable short range ballistic missiles Prithvi 2 from Chandipur in the eastern Indian state of Orissa's Balasore district, Defense Ministry sources said.
Vietnam has sent 52,210 laborers to work overseas so far this year, local newspaper the Vietnam Investment Review reported Monday.
Dengue fever kills 30 in the Mekong Delta provinces of Vietnam in the first nine months of this year, local newspaper the Pioneer reported Monday.
Thousands of supporters of deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, all in red shirts, rallied Sunday in Bangkok to demand the government step down and call fresh elections.
The Republic of Korea (ROK) plans to propose talks with the Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK) this week on preventing floods, a news report said Monday, after the latter's abrupt release of dam water down a river killed six in the ROK last month.
A slight intensity earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale Sunday night occurred in the India-Myanmar border region, reported the semi-official Press Trust of India on Monday.
Another deployment of New Zealand troops and police leaves on Monday for Afghanistan.
The top UN official in Afghanistan has acknowledged "widespread fraud" in the disputed presidential election and rejected allegations from a former deputy that he covered up cheating to smooth the path to victory for President Hamid Karzai.
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