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By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
Gunmen killed the only Christian member of Pakistan's Cabinet on Wednesday in Islamabad, the second assassination this year of a top...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
Gen. David H. Petraeus, the American commander of Western forces in Afghanistan, apologized Wednesday for the accidental deaths of nine...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
At 30, Liu Xiaoping is more boy than man, with soft doe eyes that affix visitors with the unabashed stare of the very young and glisten with...
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
Veteran television producer Rob Cope-Williams was out in the field Tuesday, working on his weekly farm report, downing a lunch of French...
By Alex Rodriguez and Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
American and Pakistani intelligence services have become deeply estranged in recent weeks after several high-profile disputes, though senior...
By Jung-yoon Choi, Los Angeles Times
The recent starvation death of an aspiring South Korean filmmaker is prompting a vigorous public dialogue here over compensation for artists...
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
He has been there in front of the news cameras almost from the moment the deadly earthquake struck this tourist city.
By John M.Glionna and Rich Connell, Los Angeles Times
The death toll from New Zealand's massive earthquake was expected to climb past 75 as 300 people remained missing and rescuers scoured...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
A court in India on Tuesday convicted 31 defendants of killing dozens of people by burning a train near the town of Godhra in 2002, an act...
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
For Hoki Tokuda, the whole crazy affair was like an inside joke her ex-husband, the late author Henry Miller, would have found...
By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
The CIA passed up a chance last year to kill Sirajuddin Haqqani, the head of an anti-American insurgent network in Pakistan that is...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
Mumbai's high court on Monday reaffirmed the death penalty against the lone surviving gunman in the 2008 terrorist attack in which 166...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
A suicide bomber struck a government administrative center in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing about 30 people, many of them...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
With a wary eye on popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, Chinese leaders are calling for new ways to defuse social unrest...
From the Associated Press
Jittery Chinese authorities wary of any domestic dissent staged a show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
Afghan officials and the NATO force on Sunday offered starkly differing accounts of a confrontation between foreign troops and insurgents...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
In military terms, it might be called a disproportionate preemptive strike, one that underscored how nervous the Chinese government is about...
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
Lee Young-guk is a struggling duck breeder in muddy work clothes, shepherding 10,000 feathered wards at his rural family-owned spread near...
By Megan K. Stack and Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
Li Guangqiang rises early and pulls on his sharpest city clothes: dark jeans fashionably distressed, puffy down coat, black pouch slung over...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
A recent recording making the rounds in Nepal featured a Maoist party leader speaking to a man with a Chinese accent. During the 12-minute...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
It was lunchtime, and it was a Saturday, the first day of the Afghan workweek. In the city of Jalalabad, as elsewhere, plenty of people...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
A massive car bomb blew up Friday on the outskirts of a city in eastern Afghanistan, killing 11 people and injuring dozens, an attack that...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sought with a rare news conference Wednesday to regain momentum after a string of corruption scandals...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
Inspired by the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, Pakistani college student Gulraiz Iqbal is itching for a reason to take his...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
One is a barely pubescent girl, forced to wed a much older man to pay a family debt. Another is a scarred and bruised mother of four, so...