By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
SEOUL — Perhaps it is merely basic human desire to keep up with the neighbors, but an increasing number of South Koreans are saying...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — North Korea fired three short-range missiles off its east coast Saturday, following through on months of threats to...
By Jason Felch, Los Angeles Times
When hundreds of federal agents raided four Southern California museums early one January morning in 2008, it set the art world ablaze,...
By Hashmat Baktash and Mark Magnier
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A police chief who had stood up repeatedly to the Taliban was shot and killed in a drive-by attack by four...
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad has expressed skepticism that a planned U.S.-Russian peace conference could help stop the...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI — Myanmar President Thein Sein released some 20 political prisoners Friday, days before a historic summit with President...
By Ramin Mostaghim and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN — Iranians must wait until next week to find out who will be on the ballot in next month's presidential election, a key...
By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — A senior Pentagon official told a Senate committee Thursday that the U.S. would be at war with Al Qaeda for 15 to 20 more...
By Hashmat Baktash and Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — A militant group said its attack Thursday on a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital marked a stepped-up campaign...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI — The disaster caused shocking loss of life among young, mostly female garment workers, awoke the conscience of a nation,...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — President Obama faces a fresh test Thursday of his determination to steer clear of the civil war in Syria when he...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a resounding victory in Pakistan's national elections, presumptive new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI — At least 58 people were missing and feared dead Tuesday after a boat capsized off Myanmar while residents tried to flee an...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI — Thousands gathered Tuesday in the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza garment factory complex in Bangladesh to pray for the...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
MASINLOC, Philippines — The fishermen were sailing the azure waters off the Philippine coast when Richard Caneda saw the morning...
By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times
CHARIKAR, Afghanistan — Abdul Shakour was working the night shift at Bagram air base repairing American vehicles when he was called to...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's overwhelming victory in weekend parliamentary elections returns to power...
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Syria on Sunday rejected Turkish charges that Damascus was behind a pair of devastating car bomb attacks in southern Turkey...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Millions of Pakistanis braved threats from militants and voted Saturday in national elections that marked the...
By Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times
Vietnam veteran John Otte did his best to forget the war.
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein made headlines recently by demanding a forceful U.S. response to Syria's use of chemical weapons...
By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Diplomats from the United States and Afghanistan met formally Saturday for just the second time since the two...
By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — At least 42 people were reported dead Saturday in a pair of car bombings in the southern Turkish town of Reyhanli, the latest...
By Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN — The run-up to Iran's June presidential election took a dramatic turn Saturday with last-minute candidacy announcements by two...
By Kim Murphy
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, WASH. — The court-martial of Army Sgt. John Russell concluded Saturday with a military judge asked to decide...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI — In a development described as miraculous, a woman trapped in rubble for 17 days emerged alive Friday from the remains of a...
By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — The United States has requested the use of nine large military bases in Afghanistan after international forces...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
CHINIOT, Pakistan — Even from his hospital bed, with a gash in his head and three broken vertebrae from a 15-foot fall, Imran Khan...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI — A deadly fire at a garment factory in Bangladesh raised new cries for improvements in the country's industrial safety...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Wednesday that would sharply toughen U.S. economic sanctions on...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — For the second day in a row, a bomb blast killed and maimed participants at a campaign rally being held by one...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
HERAT, Afghanistan — They sit in the sun harboring their lost histories, their forgotten dreams, their traces of funerals, graduations...
By Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times
KAJAKI, Afghanistan — After struggling for more than a decade to upgrade a huge hydroelectric plant in a volatile region that saw...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
MASHANG VILLAGE, China — The last time they saw their father, Hong Yunke, he was leaving home, hauling his wooden medicine chest, on a...
By Jeff Greenwald
MAE WANG, Thailand — As we sat together on a long, narrow raft of bamboo, Alexa Pham dipped her hand into the quickly moving river....
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
SHABQADAR, Pakistan — When Masoom Shah hits the campaign trail these days, he brings a 9-millimeter Glock pistol and a team of up to...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI — Malaysia faces its most significant election in decades Sunday, as voters choose between the longtime ruling coalition...
By Alex Rodriguez and Zulfiqar Ali, Los Angeles Times
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — At least 12 people were killed and 43 injured Sunday in bomb blasts targeting a candidate's convoy and the...
By Kim Murphy and Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
BOSTON — Russian authorities secretly wiretapped a conversation between a man believed to be one of the Boston Marathon bombing...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI — A clothing factory in an emerging country collapses or catches fire with horrific loss of life. Famous Western brands...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — On a subway car in Shanghai, commotion breaks out when someone spots a live chicken poking its head out of a bag tucked...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Divisions between Syrian rebels and their foreign supporters came into focus Saturday as a leading opposition group...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI — Several hundred people protesting the rape and kidnapping of a 5-year-old girl descended on police headquarters Saturday,...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — When their beds began to shake and the dishes clattered off the shelves, people knew what to do this time.
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Shashank Bengali and Matea Gold, Los Angeles Times
BOSTON — During their decade in the United States, the two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings had acquired many of the...
By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — Growing up poor and motherless in the slums of Jerusalem's Old City, Amoun Sleem dropped out of school at age 7 after...
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times
A massive Russian crackdown on Chechnya's bid for independence in the 1990s and the installation of loyal leaders there pushed the...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was arrested and placed in police custody Friday, a day after...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An Islamabad court Thursday ordered the arrest of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on charges of illegally...
By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John F. Kerry implored Congress on Thursday not to impose tough new sanctions on Iran, warning that...
By Alex Rodriguez and Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — On Sunday, a local politician named Mukarram Shah was in his car in the remote Pakistani village of Banjot...
By Shashank Bengali, Joe Tanfani and Richard A. Serrano, Times Staff Writers
BOSTON — The bombs that tore past the finish line of the Boston Marathon were probably made with simple kitchen pressure cookers...
By Anthony York, Los Angeles Times
SHENZHEN, China — The dozens of business officials who accompanied Gov. Jerry Brown to China this week included many with existing...
Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has been increasing for a third year in a row and is heading for a...
By Yuriko Nagano and Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
TOKYO — Secretary of State John F. Kerry pledged a strong and continuing U.S. commitment to the defense of Japan in the final stop...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban and U.S. military were both at fault in a NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan this month that...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry arrived in Beijing on Saturday in hopes of turning the Chinese government's obvious...
By Ken Dilanian, David S. Cloud and Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — A U.S. intelligence agency has concluded that North Korea has the capability to develop nuclear warheads small enough...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — In Washington, it is said, the definition of a gaffe is accidentally saying what you really think.
By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — An impromptu release of a Pentagon intelligence assessment suggesting North Korea could fit a nuclear warhead atop a...
By Anthony York, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — As Gov. Jerry Brown tours some of China's economic hubs this week, he is breathing the kind of heavy, soiled air that...
By Paul Richter and Jung-yoon Choi, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific reassured Congress on Tuesday that the U.S. military could intercept any...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
SHWEPYITHA, Myanmar — After her heroin-addict husband died five years ago, Ei Ei Phyu discovered she was HIV-positive. She thought her...
By Rosemary Regina Sobol and Dawn Rhodes, Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO — Members of Anne Smedinghoff's family consoled themselves Sunday with the thought that the young U.S. diplomat died in the...
By Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times
CHARIKAR, Afghanistan — At the doorstep of the U.S.-funded schoolhouse in this mountain-fringed northern town, Ghulam Nabi crouched in...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — On the day that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey arrived in Afghanistan for an assessment...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — An American contractor was detained illegally for 24 hours in an Afghan prison, beaten, denied more than basic...
Jung-yoon Choi and Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
SEOUL — When North Korea last weekend declared it was in a state of war, threatening to use nuclear weapons against South Korea,...
By Paul Richter and Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Iranian officials did not directly respond Friday to the latest American-backed offer to curb Tehran's disputed nuclear...
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MUMBAI, India — A residential building being constructed illegally on forest land in a suburb of India's financial capital collapsed...
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