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For five days, several hundred Pakistani soldiers have been held captive in a tribal region near the Afghan border. They were seized in South Waziristan by pro-Taliban militants — who never even had to fire a shot. Now efforts are under way to secure their release. The affair is causing anger and embarrassment in Pakistan.

Today in Mumbai, Indian commandos continued to battle militants in three locations, eventually recapturing the Oberoi Trident Hotel and a Jewish Center. What could be the final push to retake the Taj hotel began toward the end of the day. The death toll is more than 120, including an American rabbi and his wife at the Jewish Center.

How long have humans lived on this continent? For decades, the most common answer has been roughly 14,000 years.

We get the latest from NPR's national security correspondent Greg Myre in Tel Aviv.

John Kirby, spokesperson for the National Security Council, talks about the Biden administration's response to Israel's strikes on a refugee camp in Gaza, calls for a pause or ceasefire, and whether Americans are among the people being permitted to leave Gaza this week.

At issue is a section of the 14th Amendment, which disqualifies anyone from running for president if they "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the Constitution, after taking an oath to support it.

U.S. Marines have reportedly halted street-to-street battles with insurgents in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. But despite a unilateral U.S. call for a truce, skirmishes continue there and in several other Iraqi cities on the first anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. NPR's Philip Reeves reports.

Five women are accused of killing a man who they say had been terrorizing them in Nagpur, a central Indian city of 2 million. Akku Yadav, who reportedly committed rape, extortion, theft and murder, was bludgeoned to death in a courthouse while awaiting trial. More than 100 attorneys are offering free legal assistance to the women. NPR's Philip Reeves reports.

Western-leaning banker and technocrat Shaukat Aziz becomes Pakistan's 23rd prime minister, getting 191 votes in the 342-seat National Assembly. His political opponents boycotted the vote. A close ally of President Pervez Musharraf, Aziz narrowly escaped a recent assassination attempt. NPR's Philip Reeves reports.

NPR's Philip Reeves in Baghdad reports the ongoing battles between American troops and Iraqi insurgents are taking a toll on the U.S.-appointed Iraqi governing council. One council member has suspended participation and several others have threatened to resign in protest over the offensive by Marines in Fallujah and the battles between U.S.-led forces and supporters of a radical Shiite Muslim cleric.