Friday, 03 May 2013 08:06
A US military refuelling plane has caught fire in mid air and crashed near the border between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan's Emergencies Ministry said.
Central/S. Asia

A candidate running for Pakistan's national assembly at historic polls next week has been shot dead, police have said.

A US military refuelling plane has caught fire in mid air and crashed near the border between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan's Emergencies Ministry said.

A blast in Pakistan's commercial hub, Karachi, has injured at least seven people in the run-up to the May 11 parliamentary elections.

Pakistan's main government prosecutor on the Benazir Bhutto murder case has been shot dead in Islamabad, police said.

More than 500 bodies have been recovered from the Bangladesh garment-factory building that collapsed last week, authorities said after arresting an engineer who said the building was unsafe but is accused of helping the owner add three illegal floors to the structure.

An Indian national on death row in Pakistan who was attacked last week by fellow inmates has died from his injuries, his lawyer and a doctor said.

Bangladesh's war crimes court has indicted a Bangladesh-born British Muslim leader for his alleged role in the murder of top intellectuals during the country's 1971 liberation war.

An Afghan border policeman has been killed and two Pakistani soldiers wounded in an exchange of fire along the border, officials from both countries have said.

An Afghan official has said fighters used a bomb and small arms to kill a representative of a government peace council entrusted with helping start talks with the Taliban.

A Pakistani court has imposed a lifetime ban on former president Pervez Musharraf from contesting elections, the latest blow since he returned from exile to make a political comeback.

Nepalese police have launched an investigation into a brawl between three foreign climbers and local sherpa guides on the world's highest peak, the Mount Everest.
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