By David S. Cloud and Kathleen Hennessey, Los Angeles Times
CHICAGO — When the White House sent a last-minute invitation for Asif Ali Zardari to attend the two-day NATO summit, they were...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — As U.S. frustration with Pakistan's six-month blockade of Afghanistan-bound supplies became painfully apparent...
By David S. Cloud and Kathleen Hennessey, Los Angeles Times
CHICAGO — As thousands of protesters marched in the streets, President Obama welcomed more than 60 world leaders to his heavily...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Icy wind whipped Lt. Nauman Ahmed's face as he plodded up a barren expanse of snowfields and crevasses. Woozy...
By Lisa Marscaro, Barbara Demick and Andrew Tangel, Washington Bureau
NEW YORK — After years of detention and a bold escape to the U.S. Embassyin Beijing, blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan President Hamid Karzai, perhaps best known in the West for periodic well-aimed jabs at his NATO allies, is...
By Richard Verrier
The owner of China’s largest movie theater circuit took a big leap forward into the U.S. market, acquiring AMC Entertainment Inc., the...
By David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta heads to this weekend's NATO summit prepared to confront Pakistan over what he...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — On a warm summer night in 1989, a 21-year-old Chinese student waded into the South China Sea from a deserted beach. Still...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — "Beijing power struggle heralds end of China Communist Party," screams one headline.
By Don Lee, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration ordered tariffs of 31% and higher on solar panels imported from China, escalating a simmering...
By Kathleen Hennessey and Christi Parsons
WASHINGTON — Whatever else they achieve, back-to-back summits of world leaders this weekend hosted by President Obama will showcase...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — The country's most famous murder suspect may have laid bare divisions in Chinese society, but friends and foes alike are...
By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — After months of careful tinkering aimed at slowing China's supercharged economy, Chinese officials may have gotten more than...
By David S. Cloud and Laura King, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — A U.S.-backed program to recruit police in rural Afghanistan has failed to significantly stem the insurgency, with...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
TRIVANDRUM, India — R. Padmanathan Nair sits on a plastic chair in the entryway of the Heritage senior home talking about the fellow...
By Laura King and Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — In many ways, the two young soldiers were not so different from each other.
By Allan M. Jalon, Special to the Los Angeles Times
NEW YORK — "A snake swallowing an elephant" is how the Chinese artist Wu Guanzhong described himself. The snake was the Chinese artist...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI — Hundreds of Air India pilots did not report to work Thursday, the fourth day of a sickout to protest their treatment by...
By Ben Fritz, Los Angeles Times
Having cast a spell in Orlando and planted his flag in Los Angeles, Harry Potter is now taking his theme park magic across the Pacific.
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — A brazen daytime assassination on Sunday offered a grim reminder of stymied progress in a key part of NATO's...
By Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times
China's biggest theater company is trying to get a foothold in the U.S. by picking up some or all of AMC Entertainment Inc., an...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
Deo Man Limbu sat in a veterans hall lined with pictures of old soldiers and reflected on his years of service, his battles and his dreams....
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — When Bob Fu's cellphone rang halfway through a congressional hearing concerning detained Chinese activist Chen...
By Jung-yoon Choi, Los Angeles Times
JEJU ISLAND, South Korea -- To the South Korean military, this picturesque island is the perfect place to build a naval base: a strategic...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday urgedBangladesh's squabbling political factions to resolve their...
By David Pierson and Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — Tapping a visa track to America used by thousands of Chinese students, U.S. officials say they have struck a face-saving...
By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Concerned about possible cyber spying, U.S. national security officials are debating whether to take the unprecedented...
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW — A new Russian passenger plane with 50 people aboard went missing Wednesday during a demonstration flight over Indonesia,...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — A diplomatic crisis over the fate of a Chinese activist took a confusing new turn Thursday as Chen Guangcheng signaled...
By Brian Bennett, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — In his final months padding around the dark third-floor room in his cinder-block Pakistan hide-out, the world's most...
By Jonathan Kaiman, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — The Fox Tower in southeastern Beijing, a centuries-old fortress-like building with deep-set red windows and curving eaves,...
By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — For several hours, it appeared the U.S. and China had struck a deal that would allow Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng to...
By Laura King and Christi Parsons, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Putting a symbolic seal on a long and brutal conflict, President Obama made a dramatic overnight visit to the...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI — Hopes were high after Congress passed a U.S.-India civilian nuclear agreement in 2008 that the two countries would forge a...
By Brian Bennett and Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden was devising a strategy for overthrowing Afghan President Hamid Karzai and controlling Afghanistan once...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI — As a candidate in last month's municipal elections, Guinness Rishi didn't do any campaigning. In fact, he thinks the...
By Brian Bennett and David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — President Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor Monday defended using drones to launch missiles against militants in...
By Dan Weikel, Los Angeles Times
In a break with Los Angeles' powerful organized labor movement, county transportation leaders on Monday awarded a crucial $890-million...
By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times
SEATTLE — John Henry Browne's first brush with the U.S. military was during the Vietnam War. The lanky attorney, then a student who...
By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — A blind Chinese dissident who escaped from house arrest is under U.S. protection, his supporters said Saturday,...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Turban bombs had become too obvious. So the two men who apparently set out Saturday to assassinate Kandahar's...
By Paul Richter and David Pierson, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Even before a blind human rights lawyer slipped away from house arrest in rural China last week, Washington and Beijing...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's Supreme Court convicted Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday of contempt for failing to...
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — For the first time, a member of Afghanistan's elite special forces has carried out a deadly attack against an...
BEIJING — News of a U.S. government inquiry into Hollywood studios' business practices in China — now their largest foreign...
By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — Fuel-efficient vehicles are the rage in the United States, but in China gas-guzzling SUVs are looming large.
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — The blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng escaped from house arrest last weekend during a rescue operation mounted...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — The intersection of money and politics in China has rarely been so glaring as in the case of ousted Communist Party official...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
JACOBABAD, Pakistan — Rachna Kumari, 16, was shopping for dresses in this city's dust-choked bazaar when it happened.
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI — The children didn't notice the ravens and occasional vulture circling overhead, or the stream of black ooze that flowed...
By Maria L. La Ganga and Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times
OAKLAND — Aaron Negherbon remembers the plaintive email he received from a Marine sergeant in Afghanistan.
By Jonathan Landreth
BEIJING — The second annual Beijing International Film Festival opens Monday amid a film industry boom in China.
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai suggested Thursday that a speeded-up departure of Western troops is the only way to...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has sent letters to at least four major Hollywood studios, including Walt Disney Studios and...
By David Zucchino and Laura King
From the White House to the American Embassy in Kabul, American officials rushed to distance themselves from the actions of U.S. soldiers...
By David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
BRUSSELS — The United States and its allies are promising to provide more than $4 billion a year for Afghanistan's army and police...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI — She was called dirty, ugly, a "little packet of poison," the offspring of donkeys. These days, Kalpana Saroj is called...
By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times
The paratroopers had their assignment: Check out reports that Afghan police had recovered the mangled remains of an insurgent suicide...
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times
The prospect of power shortages in Japan this summer, of stifling city apartments and manufacturing slowdowns, has divided a country still...
By David Ng, Los Angeles Times
Classical music has a long and fruitful history serving as an informal olive branch between hostile countries. Cultural exchanges between...
By Stuart Pfeifer, Los Angeles Times
Two former executives of an Orange County company pleaded guilty to foreign corruption charges for bribing overseas government officials...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI — India on Thursday successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile that landed 20 minutes...
By Aimal Yaqubi and Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — The brazen and well-coordinated attacks by insurgents against four embassies and other key sites in the heart...
By Kit Gillet, Los Angeles Times
LIUYI, China — Bathed in a faint afternoon sunlight that seems to highlight every wrinkle on her face and hands, Fu Huiying hobbles...
By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The spectacular failure of a North Korean rocket, and the humiliation it presumably caused the nation's young new leader,...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — For decades,North Korea's leaders have bet heavily on a stark calculation: In order to survive, they need to nurture their...
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times
Fear that North Korea might be positioning itself to market weapons technology to other developing nations may have been eased by its latest...
By David Pierson, Los Angeles Times
HUIZHOU, China — Tony Zhang used to make cents on the dollar churning out cheap sneakers for Wal-Mart.
By Laura King, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan police and army have won praise for fighting off one of the war's most ambitious insurgent strikes,...
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