Kremlin: missile deployment should not hurt Russia-Japan peace talks

Pakistan says nine killed in Indian shelling of bus in Kashmir


MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan Indian shelling across the frontier into Pakistani-controlled Kashmir hit a bus, killing at least nine people and wounding 11, Pakistani officials said, as tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors simmers.




Power vacuum weighs on South Korea as Park fights for survival


SEOUL As the chorus grows louder for South Korean President Park Geun-hye to resign over a corruption scandal, a power vacuum is weighing on her administration, leaving her political survival in doubt and its vulnerable economy exposed to political shocks.




U.S., Russia request Czechs extradite arrested Russian hacker


PRAGUE The United States and Russia have requested the extradition of a Russian man arrested in the Czech Republic and indicted in the United States for hacking computers belonging to LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring, the Czech news agency CTK reported on Wednesday.