BEIJING (AP) – China said Saturday that it will not renew press credentials for a French journalist, effectively expelling her following a harsh media campaign against her for questioning the official line equating ethnic violence in China’s western Muslim region with global terrorism. Expecting the move, Ursula Gauthier, a longtime …

ISLAMABAD (AP) – India’s Narendra Modi made a surprise visit to Pakistan on Friday, his first such trip as prime minister to this Islamic nation that has been India’s long-standing archrival in the region. The previously unannounced visit is a potential sign of thawing relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbors. …

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – At least 12 people were injured in eastern Nangarhar province after an earthquake jolted Afghanistan just before midnight Friday, officials said on Saturday. A number of Nangarhar University students in the provincial capital, Jalalabad, were injured during a stampede while trying to run out of a …