Syrian regime, rivals reject transition plan

Engineers in Japan Sunday began refiring an atomic reactor, despite growing public protests in the aftermath of meltdowns at Fukushima, ending nearly two months in which the country was nuclear-free.

Investors are hoping Premier Manmohan Singh, who unleashed radical reforms that turned around India’s economy two decades ago, can work some similar magic after assuming the finance portfolio once again.

Sri Lanka’s main opposition on Sunday vowed to resist a police crackdown against its news website after the United States asked the government to stop “harassing” journalists in the island.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) Inspector General Aditya Mishra (2L) presents

An aid to a Philippine governor whose political challenge to a powerful Muslim clan led to the country’s worst political massacre has been shot and killed, police said Sunday.

US missiles fired from a drone in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border killed eight suspected militants early Sunday, officials said, as the controversial American strikes continue despite Islamabad’s persistent demands that they stop.

China has deployed four patrol ships to a disputed area of the South China Sea, state media said Sunday, amid a deepening row with Vietnam over competing territorial claims.

Attacks in Iraq killed at least 282 people in June, according to an AFP tally based on security and medical sources, though official figures put the death toll at less than half that number.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has decided not to attend a new session of parliament this week to give herself time to recover from a grueling European tour, her party said Sunday.