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Pakistan continues to consider India as an "existential threat" despite the two countries taking significant appreciative steps in improving their ties, a top American intelligence official said on Wednesday. - IBNLive - 10 Reads

The visit of the Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar to Kabul was good and well timed, the United States has said even as it awaited the details of the trip from the two countries. - IBNLive - 10 Reads

Dozens of Palestinians on Thursday tried to block UN chief Ban Ki-moon from entering the Gaza Strip and pelted his armoured convoy with shoes and sticks, accusing him of being unfairly biased toward Israel. - IBNLive - 5 Reads

Acknowledging the 'strain' in US-Pak relationship, a top US intelligence official has said that the internal situation in Pakistan is 'fraught' and will take some time to get back to normalcy. - IBNLive - 8 Reads

To make America more attractive to highly-skilled foreign students and workers, the United States has announced a series of reforms, including changes in the F-1 and H-1B visa rules, that may benefit professionals from India. - IBNLive - 16 Reads

The United States Senate has passed a bill that would ban lawmakers from trading stocks based on the information they acquire while performing their Congressional duties. - IBNLive - 6 Reads

In a barrage of mortar shells, Syrian forces killed 200 people and wounded hundreds in Homs in an offensive that appears to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said Saturday. - IBNLive - 8 Reads

Protesters filled the streets and clashed for a second day on Friday with police who fired tear gas and birdshot in Cairo, as a deadly soccer riot focused rising public anger over lawlessness and collapsing security a year after Egypt's uprising. - IBNLive - 11 Reads

The US is pushing Islamabad to address the issue of prevalence of Pakistan-manufactured improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan that continues to be a major point of friction between the two countries. - IBNLive - 9 Reads

Former US speaker Nancy Pelosi has said there is a need for the Chinese government to change its repressive policies regarding Tibet, a statement said on Thursday. - IBNLive - 7 Reads