A group that monitors Christianity in China says the government is ratcheting up a crackdown on congregations in Beijing and several Chinese provinces, destroying crosses, burning bibles and ordering followers to sign papers renouncing their faith

A spokesman says the government of Pakistan's newly elected prime minister has removed a minority Ahmadi Muslim from a recently set up economic council because of opposition from hard-line Islamists

Myanmar's government has rejected an International Criminal Court ruling that it has jurisdiction to investigate allegations that Myanmar security forces violated international law by driving hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from their homes

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis makes surprise visit to war-weary Afghan capital

India's Supreme Court struck down a colonial-era law that made gay sex punishable by up to 10 years in prison, a landmark victory for gay rights that one judge said would "pave the way for a better future"

Afghan officials say insurgents have killed 19 people in separate assaults, including an insider attack in which a policeman shot dead eight colleagues

Afghan officials say twin bombings at a wrestling training center in a Shiite neighborhood of the capital have killed at least 20 people and wounded 70

Afghan officials say a suicide bombing and a car bomb attack at a wrestling training center in a Shiite neighborhood of the capital have killed at least 20 people and wounded 70

The wives of two Reuters journalists sentenced in Myanmar to seven years' imprisonment for possessing state secrets say they were shocked by the verdicts

A court in Myanmar has sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison on charges of illegal possession of official documents