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Indonesian authorities killed the suspected mastermind behind the deadly 2002 Bali bombings, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Wednesday.

Militants attacked the office of a humanitarian organization in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday killing five people, police said.

India’s upper house of parliament has passed a historic bill aimed at reserving one-third of seats for women in federal and state legislatures.

Every bit of fully synthetic plastic that’s ever been produced over the past 100 years is somewhere on our planet, a leading environmentalist, David de Rothschild, said Tuesday.

Dogs bark and whine behind high chain-link fences, some of them gnawing the wire so hard they bleed at the mouths while cats packed into crowded cages cower in fear if anyone approaches.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to visit Afghanistan on Wednesday, a government spokesman said.

A police raid on the outskirts of Jakarta Tuesday may have killed one of Indonesia’s most-wanted terrorists, though officials said they would await tests to verify the man’s identity.

The top U.S. general in Afghanistan vowed that coalition forces “are absolutely going to secure Kandahar,” as security efforts expand in the country’s south.

Angry protests disrupted India’s parliament several times over a landmark but contentious bill aimed at reserving one-third of seats for women in federal and state legislatures.

Conflicting reports emerged over whether Adam Gadahn, a U.S.-born spokesman for al Qaeda, has been arrested in Pakistan.