Srinagar / AFP Hundreds of villagers clashed with police in restive Indian-administered Kashmir on Saturday after three armed militants were killed in an early morning gunbattle with government forces, the army and witnesses said. Soldiers and special operations officers cordoned off Panzgam village, about 35 kilometres (22 miles) south of the main city of Srinagar, before dawn after receiving a …

  BEIJING / AP China’s navy is searching for 17 sailors after their fishing boat collided with another vessel. The official China News Service said on Saturday that two other sailors have been rescued by another fishing boat following the pre-dawn crash. Three navy ships operating in the East China Sea off the coast of Zhejiang province were diverted to …

  Beijing / AFP Sanctions that have pinched North Korea’s health care system should be eased, a group of Nobel laureates said on Saturday, after a rare visit to the nuclear armed state that coincided with its ruling party congress. Embargoes on the flow of goods into the isolated country have squeezed the quality of medical care and research, they …