A Republican senator says the U.S. should consider military action to defend U.S. troops if Pakistan's intelligence agencies continue supporting terrorists who are attacking American forces.

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Six days after former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani was assassinated, authorities in Kabul have arrested a prominent Afghan connected to the Taliban militants as a suspect.

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A decommissioned Nasa satellite, the biggest piece of US space junk to fall in 30 years, has crash-landed but the precise location is not yet known, the US space agency said early on Saturday. Nasa has repeatedly said there is only a “very remote” risk to the public from the 26 fragments of the Upper

The global financial safety net needs to be 'truly global' and consist of multiple layers to be effective, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Saturday, even as he warned that it is no substi

The International Monetary Fund pledged firm collective action on Saturday as warnings surged from around the world over a possible European economic meltdown.

With calls for the European Union to mo

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee is cutting short his visit here and rushing to New York to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh amid a storm back home over his ministry’s note to the PMO on the 2G scam.
Sources told PTI that Mr Mukherjee, who is in Washington to attend the annual meetings of the

Pakistan's spy agency ISI not only supports but also encourages terrorist outfits, particularly the Haqqani militant network, the US said on Friday, underlining that it expected the Pakistani leadersh

Amid fears of a second dip recession, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said that 'concrete steps' will have to be taken to deal with the situation as there is no ready made formula to address

Amid the raging controversy over the note on P. Chidambaram vis-a-vis 2G spectrum auction, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee would meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New York on Sunday to sort out

The US military's top officer bluntly accused Pakistan on Thursday of ‘exporting’ violent extremism to Afghanistan through proxies and warned of possible US action to protect American troops.

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