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Data breach puts Lifeline phone applicants' privacy...

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:20:19 -0400

By ISAAC WOLF - Last fall, when Linda Mendez was offered discount phone service through a federal program for the poor, the San Antonio mom thought it was too good to be true. She signed up anyway.

India offers more aid for rebuilding Afghanistan

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:45:42 -0400

NEW DELHI - India offered on Tuesday to provide more training and reconstruction aid for Afghanistan as most international troops prepare to withdraw next year.

China's Li seeks stronger economic ties with India

Tue, 21 May 2013 05:17:18 -0400

NEW DELHI - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told Indian business leaders Tuesday that developing stronger economic ties between their two nations would have huge benefits for both sides.

Karzai seeks Indian military aid amid Pakistan row

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:42:17 -0400

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai will seek increased military aid from India during a three-day visit starting Monday and will discuss recent cross-border clashes with Pakistan, India's archrival, an aide said.

Indian circuses struggle to adapt after court bans

Fri, 17 May 2013 05:06:41 -0400

MUMBAI, India - In the early morning heat and dust, daily practice at the Rambo Circus is in full swing. A trapeze creaks as two performers perfect their throws. A Colombian daredevil shouts to his colleagues scrambling atop a giant set of spinning wheels called the Ring of Death.

Man accused of raping 4-year-old Indian girl

Thu, 09 May 2013 03:49:04 -0400

NEW DELHI - Indian police say they have arrested a 20-year-old man on suspicion of raping and sodomizing a 4-year-old girl, the latest incident of sexual violence to shock the country.

China and India's rivalry extends to the Arctic

Wed, 08 May 2013 04:50:48 -0400

BEIJING - While the recent troop standoff in a remote Himalayan desert spotlights a long-running border dispute between China and India, the two emerging giants are engaged in a rivalry for global influence that spreads much farther afield.

Chinese incursion leaves India on verge of crisis

Thu, 02 May 2013 16:40:08 -0400

NEW DELHI - The platoon of Chinese soldiers slipped across the boundary into India in the middle of the night, according to Indian officials. They were ferried across the bitterly cold moonscape in Chinese army vehicles, then got out to traverse a dry creek bed with a helicopter hovering overhead for protection.

Raped 5-year-old girl dies in central India

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:59:27 -0400

NEW DELHI - A 5-year-old girl has died after being raped in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, an official said Tuesday, in the latest in a series of brutal attacks that have sparked outrage in the country.

Indian jurist who pushed for new rape laws dies

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:17:09 -0400

NEW DELHI - Jagdish Sharan Verma, the former Indian chief justice who helped lead the charge for tough new laws to protect women in the wake of a gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus, has died. He was 80.

Indian girl's rape highlights police apathy

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:42:40 -0400

NEW DELHI - A child disappears. Police are called. Nothing happens.