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Pakistani soldiers killed 12 militants in gunbattles over the past day, officials said Saturday, as government forces pressed on with their offensive in the mountainous Taliban sanctuary of South Waziristan.

China is offering to abolish import duties on some commodities from Africa and make sure Chinese exports to the continent are safe as part of a package to boost already thriving economic ties, China's commerce minister said in an article published Saturday.

US President Barack Obama has delayed his visit to Japan next week by one day, a Japanese foreign ministry official said Saturday, following a deadly shooting at a military base in Texas.

Investigators are searching for the motive behind a mass shooting at a sprawling US army base in Texas, in which an army psychiatrist trained to treat war wounded is suspected of killing 13 people.

India has provoked China's fury by allowing the Dalai Lama to visit a remote town near the disputed Tibetan border.

Germany's defense minister said Friday he believes civilians were killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan, but insisted that the German-requested attack was necessary from a military standpoint.

November 6, 2009 Visionmp.com news service The Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has said that there is no input from Pakistan on David Coleman Headley, who was arrested in Chicago by the FBI for plotting a major terror strike in India at the best of LeT.

A former gang leader who was the son of a high-ranking politician was executed this week in northern China after being convicted of murder, kidnapping, and extortion, state media reported.

Some 22 passengers were killed and several others feared dead when a bus plunged into a deep gorge in Kangra town of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh today, a senior police official said, Xinhua reported.

Defying Taliban's threats, the fashionists in Pakistan clustered in the southern commercial hub for the ongoing Karachi Fashion Week to showcase a different side of the terror-torn country, Xinhua reported.

At least 22 people were killed as their bus plunged into a gorge at Kangra town in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh Friday, said police, Xinhua reported.

A lone gunman shot and wounded three men Friday in a residential area near Tokyo and then took refuge in a building, officials say, AP reported.

United States President Barack Obama will visit China from Nov. 15 to 18 at the invitation of Chinese President Hu Jintao, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said on Thursday, Xinhua reported.

A Democratic senator on Thursday called on the Obama administration to reject an expected request for federal economic stimulus money as part of a $1.5 billion West Texas wind energy project, saying it will generate Chinese, not American, jobs - a claim strongly disputed by the project's developer.

Editor's note: Reuters journalist Deborah Gembara was embedded with the 1-501rst Infantry Battallion in Kushamond, Afghanistan.

A front-line advocate of treating Internet addiction Thursday appealed that net addicts must be taken into qualified health institutions rather than rehab camps, as China's Ministry of Health was soliciting public opinions on a draft guidance to juveniles on Internet use.

Two earthquakes measuring 5.9 and 5.4 on the Richter scale respectively struck central Taiwan in a little more than two hours on Thursday, the China Earthquake Networks Center said, Xinhua reported.

A man convicted of organizing a crime gang that intentionally injured seven people and took huge amounts of money in racketeering over the past eight years was sentenced to 20 years in jail Thursday at a court in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, Xinhua reported.