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Several express disappointment that South Korea is not the nirvana they had anticipated. They enjoy freedom and creature comforts, but feel like second-class citizens.
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Hu Jintao's absence is particularly conspicuous because the summit is to address issues in which China plays a big role in the problem and solution, including climate change and the economic meltdown. >>
In Urumqi, police fill the streets, where Han Chinese and minority Uighurs continue to battle, each side seeking revenge for earlier attacks. >>
Some suspect North Korea launched the cyber attack whose targets included the White House and the NYSE. Others scoff at the idea. South Korea was also hit. >>
Fans in Detroit, Georgia and Las Vegas, and as far away as Berlin and Beijing, shed tears for the King of Pop during the L.A. memorial service. >>
President Hu Jintao cuts short a state visit to Italy to deal with the deadly violence in Urumqi. The city is under heavy police guard after clashes involving the majority Han and minority Uighurs. >>
Roxanna Brown was both informant and target in a probe into donations of allegedly looted Thai antiquities to museums. Days after her arrest, she died in custody. The government will pay $880,000. >>
Some problems continue. Attacks in South Korea may be linked. >>
The Defense secretary under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson oversaw the buildup of U.S. forces in Vietnam. He later voiced regrets about his decisions in the war. >>
COLUMN ONE
For centuries, donkeys and mules have been the preferred mode of military transport in Afghanistan. At a training center in the Sierra Nevada, Marines learn how to handle the sure-footed animals. >>
The deaths occur in the south, where a U.S.-led offensive is underway, but also elsewhere, as the Taliban increases pressure. Experts say the U.S. public must brace for higher casualties. >>
The daily death toll is the highest in months. Observers warn that Americans need to brace themselves for mounting casualties in the conflict as more U.S. troops enter it. >>
Clashes between the Uighur minority and Han majority leave at least 156 dead. The unrest also upends the government's picture of its ethnic groups living in harmony. >>
Presidents Obama and Dmitry Medvedev's summit yields agreements on building closer cooperation on military and health issues. Russia will let the U.S. use its airspace in the Afghanistan war. >>
Presidents Obama and Dmitry Medvedev's summit yields agreements on building closer cooperation on military and health issues. Russia will let the U.S. use its airspace in the Afghanistan war. >>
Britain: African nations call for better aid efforts / Egypt: Woman slain in Germany mourned / South Korea: North's ship sent back / Britain: Ancient Bible pages united digitally >>
The largest one-day toll in months is a sign of intensifying conflict in the south, where a major U.S. offensive is underway, as well as increased insurgent activity in other parts of the nation. >>
ROME -- Fiat Group CEO Sergio Marchionne signed an agreement today with state-owned Guangzhou Automobile Group Co. to produce cars in a joint venture beginning in the second half of 2011 as Fiat seeks to expand its position in the growing Chinese market. >>
Eight hundred people are injured and hundreds are reported arrested in Urumqi. The Uighur demonstrators were protesting against racial discrimination. >>
Yemen: 'Black box' signals detected / Bulgaria: Right-wing party prevails / China: Floods strand students / Pakistan: Airstrikes target Taliban / Nigeria: Militants claim attack / Iraq: Sandstorm mise >>
OBITUARIES
During the short-lived uprising against the Soviets, he was named Budapest's military commander and head of the National Guard. >>
Officials allowed a robust trade along the border with China. But now they are rolling back reforms and preaching self-sufficiency. >>
OBITUARIES
Many of his reports were critical of camp administrators and the policy that led to the internment of 10,000 people of Japanese descent, most of whom were U.S. citizens from Los Angeles County. >>
Military officials cite radar advances as one reason they think a North Korean rocket could be intercepted. >>
Iraq: Biden spends holiday with troops / Italy: Protests over G-8 summit / Russia: Rebels kill 9 Chechen police / Somalia: 23 dead in fighting / China: 300,000 evacuated amid rains, floods >>
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expresses disappointment at not being allowed to see pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. A former prisoner says he's not surprised. >>
U.S. military officials say several U.S. soldiers also were wounded in the assault on the remote outpost in Paktika province. It's the same area where an American soldier went missing Tuesday. >>
His father fears foul play. The soldier's death is under investigation, but officials say the findings won't be released for several weeks. >>
Azharuddin, who played the young Salim, had lived in a tarpaulin-covered unauthorized hut. >>
Q & A
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon rejects the notions that the world body has been shunted aside on security matters and that his moral voice has been lacking. >>
China and India lash out at a U.S. bill aimed at imports from countries that pollute, saying that it would 'hurt the interests of developing countries' and 'disrupt the order of international trade.' >>
OBITUARIES
Shot down five times, he received Navy Cross medals during World War II and the Korean War. Injuries suffered in the Vietnam War forced him to retire after 27 years of service. >>
The missiles target the network of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mahsud, who escaped a similar attack a week earlier. >>
Reports on retail sales and the service industry add to concern that the first global recession since World War II will persist. >>
Myanmar fossils may mean human roots in Asia / Crucial sea grass meadows found to be declining / Multiple genetic variations linked to schizophrenia / Deep-brain stimulators help some cerebral palsy p >>
The new tests come a day after Pyongyang launched four short-range missiles over the sea. The latest missiles also appear to be short-range, a South Korean news agency says. >>
Hundreds of U.S. homeowners have similar complaints. Some have sued. >>
U.S. Marines pushed deeper into Taliban-held areas of southern Afghanistan on Friday, seeking to cut insurgent supply lines and win over town elders on the second day of the biggest U.S. military operation here since the invasion of 2001. >>
Bored and anxious residents of the Sheik Yaseen displacement camp lament their lost livelihoods and fear having to rebuild after an army offensive against Islamic militants forced them to flee. >>
His 'Fallen Star 1/5' installation tells the story of his journey from South Korea to the U.S. >>
The campaign against Taliban forces in the northwest has impressed observers, but they point to the next, equally important, task for the government, to address issues that help foster militancy. >>
MILITARY DEATHS
The officer could have retired, but he decided that he had to go to Iraq. >>
OBITUARIES
The Johns Hopkins University professor also studied the influence of disease on European colonization, imperialism in India and the ecological history of the Chesapeake Bay. >>
FORGOTTEN WARRIORS
Contract employees injured in the conflict zones of Iraq and Afghanistan and families of those killed there are covered by American taxpayer-funded insurance, but it often fails to deliver. >>
ART
But as the exhibition shows, in this global age, Korean art is not so easily defined. And how does it differ from other countries' art? >>
Deployed for less than a month, he is killed in a noncombat-related incident in Afghanistan. >>
HOME OF THE WEEK
A French-Mediterranean, built where Newport's old China House once stood, emphasizes entertainment. >>
'Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists From Korea'Where: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles >>Nearly two months after the offensive began against the Taliban in northwest Pakistan, those returning to their towns see destruction and no signs of reconstruction efforts. >>
Heavy fighting in Swat Valley towns has forced militants into more remote valleys such as Sakhra, whose landscape favors the Islamic fighters. >>
MILITARY DEATHS
The entertainment company executive is killed in Afghanistan while serving on his fourth overseas tour. >>
He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2001 and joined the Army in 2006, and was on his fourth combat tour when he was killed. He had earned nearly two dozen ribbons and medals. >>
The Defense Department last week identified the following American military personnel killed in Afghanistan: >>
He chaired UCLA's department of biological chemistry and was selected by President Nixon to lead the first scientific delegation to China. >>
He received a Medal of Honor for staying behind despite being injured himself. After World War II, he joined the Army and served in Korea and Vietnam. >>
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