Kunduz / AP The new commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan apologized on Tuesday to the people of Kunduz for the deadly attack on a hospital in the city last year that killed 42 people. US Army Gen. John Nicholson traveled to the northern city to meet local leaders and relatives of those who died in the Oct. ...

Hanoi / AP A prominent Vietnamese blogger who is a former police officer and the son of a late government minister will be put on trial this week for alleged anti-state postings, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Nguyen Huu Vinh and his assistant, Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy, are accused of abusing democratic freedoms to infringe on the interests of the ...

Tokyo / AFP A nuclear transport vessel carrying a huge cache of plutonium—enough to produce 50 nuclear bombs—to be returned to the US left a Japanese port on Tuesday afternoon. The stockpile, provided by the United States, Britain and France decades ago for research purposes, is being shipped to the US as part of a bilateral storage deal. Television footage ...