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By Yuriko Nagano, Los Angeles Times
Japanese public high school teacher Sawa Kawamura used to smile on her way to work. But in recent years, this quiet woman has come to...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
Pakistan's ruling party Friday authorized a sweeping overhaul of the country's Cabinet that probably will mean a marked reduction in the...
By Diana Marcum, Los Angeles Times
They promised a funeral fit for a king.
By Rajneesh Bhandari and Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
After 17 attempts, steadily diminishing expectations and paralysis in local government as budgets and appointments were delayed, Nepal...
By John M. Glionna, Times Staff Writer
The ship's captain lies sedated in a hospital bed here, breathing tubes thrust down his throat, fragments from six bullets fired by...
By Jennifer Bennett, Los Angeles Times
A powerful cyclone roared across the coastline of northeastern Australia late Wednesday and early Thursday, damaging homes, cutting off...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
Indian leaders hope visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai this week will emphasize the safeguarding of mutual interests between the two...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
A Pakistani judge Tuesday barred authorities from releasing an American Consulate official accused of double murder despite the U.S....
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
In this farming town an hour outside Seoul, the stalls sit eerily empty of animals, helter-skelter hoof marks in the mud the only reminder...
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
Five alleged Somali pirates arrived in South Korea on Sunday to face trial in the recent foiled hijacking of a cargo ship, charges that...
By Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times
The master sits in a newly painted house on Kharabat Street, in the oldest quarter of this ancient city in the mountains.
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
A suicide bomber killed the deputy governor of strategic Kandahar province Saturday, raising fears that insurgents were reigniting an...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad on Saturday demanded that Pakistani authorities release an American diplomat who faces murder charges in the...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
Pakistani authorities in Lahore have arrested a U.S. Consulate employee who shot and killed two men he said he thought were going to rob...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
In a grim demonstration of insurgents' ability to strike even in tightly guarded districts, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
During his State of the Union address this week, President Obama urged Americans to reboot the country's struggling economy through...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
An employee of the U.S. consulate in Lahore shot and killed two armed Pakistani men on a motorcycle Thursday in what the employee told...
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
The South Korean government's pledge to get tougher on piracy and its self-congratulatory remarks after a military raid last week that freed...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
President Hamid Karzai, acting under heavy Western pressure, inaugurated Afghanistan's new parliament Wednesday but made plain his pique...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
It's been called the greatest literary show on Earth, a thinking person's carnival. The Jaipur Literature Festival, which wrapped up...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
If the significance of the tune that pianist Lang Lang played at last week's state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao escaped the...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
A retired Pakistani intelligence agent regarded as an architect behind the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan died after being held...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
Nothing like being told you can't to make you want.
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
They struck shortly after dawn on a weekday morning this month, taking bulldozers, backhoes and sledgehammers to the Noor Masjid...
By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times
Marines tell of snipers who fire from "murder holes" cut into mud-walled compounds. Fighters who lie in wait in trenches dug around rough...