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• India and China pledge on border row

  Monday 20 May 2013

  Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang says India and China must "improve mechanisms" to settle a long-running border dispute…

• China asks N Korea to free boat crew

  Monday 20 May 2013

  China says it has called on North Korea to secure the release of a fishing boat and its crew seized on 5 May, as captors…

• Karachi tense as PTI 'wins revote'

  Monday 20 May 2013

  The southern Pakistani city is braced for more protests, as results emerge from a partial re-run of elections held after…

• Deadly suicide bomb in Afghanistan

  Monday 20 May 2013

  A suicide attack in Afghanistan's Baghlan province kills at least 14 people, including a senior local politician opposed…

• Obama to host Burmese president

  Monday 20 May 2013

  President Thein Sein is set to meet President Barack Obama in Washington on Monday - in the first state visit by a Burmese…

• Murdered Pakistan politician buried

  Monday 20 May 2013

  Hundreds of people attend the funeral of the murdered vice-president of Pakistan's PTI party, Zahra Shahid Hussain, at a…

• N Korea urged to end missile tests

  Sunday 19 May 2013

  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urges Pyongyang to end its missile tests as a fourth short-range weapon is launched from…