The US and Pakistan vowed on Tuesday to intensify a crackdown on militants hiding in lawless border areas, as top diplomat John Kerry urged renewed peace talks with India to strengthen regional stability. Last month’s shocking school massacre in Peshawar by the Pakistani Taliban triggered global outrage, and sharpened the …

A passenger bus came under heavy fire in eastern Ukraine, killing 12 people, Ukrainian authorities said, and fighting intensified around the international airport in the city of Donetsk as separatists tried to oust government forces. The latest violence flared on Tuesday after Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany scrapped plans for …

US Vice President Joe Biden spoke via phone with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Tuesday to review the foreign aid intended to rebuild the Ukrainian economy, and talk about efforts to have Moscow end its hostilities and withdraw from its neighbor’s eastern region, the White House said in a …