Pakistan offers little justice for victims of acid attacks

Pakistan offers little justice for victims of acid attacks

FAISALABAD, Pakistan — The cherub-faced 10-year-old girl was standing at a bus stop, saying goodbye to visiting relatives, when her...

Chen Guangcheng is gone, but his village stays locked down

LINYI, China — At the turnoff for the sleepy farming village of Dongshigu, a man wearing a straw hat appears to be selling watermelons...

Army Sgt. Brian L. Walker, Lucerne Valley; killed in Afghanistan

NATO summit: Obama's Pakistan gamble falls flat

NATO summit: Obama's Pakistan gamble falls flat

CHICAGO — When the White House sent a last-minute invitation for Asif Ali Zardari to attend the two-day NATO summit, they were...

Pakistanis fear becoming isolated

Pakistanis fear becoming isolated

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — As U.S. frustration with Pakistan's six-month blockade of Afghanistan-bound supplies became painfully apparent...

At NATO summit, warm welcome for most leaders, but not Pakistan's

At NATO summit, warm welcome for most leaders, but not Pakistan's

CHICAGO — As thousands of protesters marched in the streets, President Obama welcomed more than 60 world leaders to his heavily...

For troops on Siachen Glacier, the elements are the enemy

For troops on Siachen Glacier, the elements are the enemy

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Icy wind whipped Lt. Nauman Ahmed's face as he plodded up a barren expanse of snowfields and crevasses. Woozy...

Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng grateful to be safe in U.S.

Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng grateful to be safe in U.S.

NEW YORK — After years of detention and a bold escape to the U.S. Embassyin Beijing, blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived...

 For Afghanistan's Karzai, funding tops NATO summit agenda

For Afghanistan's Karzai, funding tops NATO summit agenda

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan President Hamid Karzai, perhaps best known in the West for periodic well-aimed jabs at his NATO allies, is...

Wanda Group of China buys AMC Entertainment

Wanda Group of China buys AMC Entertainment

The owner of China’s largest movie theater circuit took a big leap forward into the U.S. market, acquiring AMC Entertainment Inc., the...

Panetta to confront Pakistan at NATO summit on transport costs

Panetta to confront Pakistan at NATO summit on transport costs

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta heads to this weekend's NATO summit prepared to confront Pakistan over what he...

Tiananmen Square activist loses latest bid to return to China

Tiananmen Square activist loses latest bid to return to China

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...

China's Bo Xilai scandal revs up news media run by exiles

China's Bo Xilai scandal revs up news media run by exiles

BEIJING — "Beijing power struggle heralds end of China Communist Party," screams one headline.

 U.S. orders tariffs on Chinese solar panels

U.S. orders tariffs on Chinese solar panels

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration ordered tariffs of 31% and higher on solar panels imported from China, escalating a simmering...

NATO and G-8 summits allow Obama to showcase foreign policy

NATO and G-8 summits allow Obama to showcase foreign policy

WASHINGTON — Whatever else they achieve, back-to-back summits of world leaders this weekend hosted by President Obama will showcase...

In China, British expatriate's death prompts calls for open trial

In China, British expatriate's death prompts calls for open trial

BEIJING — The country's most famous murder suspect may have laid bare divisions in Chinese society, but friends and foes alike are...

After slamming brakes on growth, China reaches for stimulus

After slamming brakes on growth, China reaches for stimulus

BEIJING — After months of careful tinkering aimed at slowing China's supercharged economy, Chinese officials may have gotten more than...

Afghan police units tangled in criminal activity

Afghan police units tangled in criminal activity

WASHINGTON — A U.S.-backed program to recruit police in rural Afghanistan has failed to significantly stem the insurgency, with...

As India's old ways change, senior-care homes are on the rise

As India's old ways change, senior-care homes are on the rise

TRIVANDRUM, India — R. Padmanathan Nair sits on a plastic chair in the entryway of the Heritage senior home talking about the fellow...

A U.S. soldier and the Afghan soldier who killed him

A U.S. soldier and the Afghan soldier who killed him

KABUL, Afghanistan — In many ways, the two young soldiers were not so different from each other.

 Asia Society's 'Revolutionary Ink' reflects on Wu Guanzhong

Asia Society's 'Revolutionary Ink' reflects on Wu Guanzhong

NEW YORK — "A snake swallowing an elephant" is how the Chinese artist Wu Guanzhong described himself. The snake was the Chinese artist...

Pilot sickout the latest problem to hit India's aviation industry

Pilot sickout the latest problem to hit India's aviation industry

NEW DELHI — Hundreds of Air India pilots did not report to work Thursday, the fourth day of a sickout to protest their treatment by...

Harry Potter's world coming to Universal Studios Japan

Harry Potter's world coming to Universal Studios Japan

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.

Afghan assassination casts more gloom over peace efforts

Afghan assassination casts more gloom over peace efforts

KABUL, Afghanistan — A brazen daytime assassination on Sunday offered a grim reminder of stymied progress in a key part of NATO's...

Chinese cinema firm is seeking to buy all or part of AMC

Chinese cinema firm is seeking to buy all or part of AMC

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...

Nepal's fierce Gurkha soldiers find themselves under siege

Nepal's fierce Gurkha soldiers find themselves under siege

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....

Texas pastor a key player in Chen Guangcheng case

Texas pastor a key player in Chen Guangcheng case

WASHINGTON — When Bob Fu's cellphone rang halfway through a congressional hearing concerning detained Chinese activist Chen...

In South Korea, a small island town takes on the navy

In South Korea, a small island town takes on the navy

JEJU ISLAND, South Korea -- To the South Korean military, this picturesque island is the perfect place to build a naval base: a strategic...

In Bangladesh, Hillary Clinton urges political reconciliation

NEW DELHI — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday urgedBangladesh's squabbling political factions to resolve their...

Study offer appears to resolve U.S.-China impasse over dissident

BEIJING — Tapping a visa track to America used by thousands of Chinese students, U.S. officials say they have struck a face-saving...

Fears of spying hinder U.S. license for China Mobile

WASHINGTON — Concerned about possible cyber spying, U.S. national security officials are debating whether to take the unprecedented...

Russian plane goes missing in Indonesia

MOSCOW — A new Russian passenger plane with 50 people aboard went missing Wednesday during a demonstration flight over Indonesia,...

Chinese dissident says he may want 'to rest' in U.S.

WASHINGTON — A diplomatic crisis over the fate of a Chinese activist took a confusing new turn Thursday as Chen Guangcheng signaled...

Bin Laden worried about legacy and sought to kill Obama

WASHINGTON — In his final months padding around the dark third-floor room in his cinder-block Pakistan hide-out, the world's most...

Book on British woman's slaying revisits China in 1930s

BEIJING — The Fox Tower in southeastern Beijing, a centuries-old fortress-like building with deep-set red windows and curving eaves,...

Pall cast over U.S.-China deal over Chinese dissident

BEIJING — For several hours, it appeared the U.S. and China had struck a deal that would allow Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng to...

Obama signs pact, greets troops in surprise Afghanistan visit

KABUL, Afghanistan — Putting a symbolic seal on a long and brutal conflict, President Obama made a dramatic overnight visit to the...

Hillary Clinton to visit India, Bangladesh with modest agenda

NEW DELHI — Hopes were high after Congress passed a U.S.-India civilian nuclear agreement in 2008 that the two countries would forge a...

Osama bin Laden notes show a plan to overthrow Hamid Karzai

WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden was devising a strategy for overthrowing Afghan President Hamid Karzai and controlling Afghanistan once...

In pursuit of Guinness records, India man knows no limits

NEW DELHI — As a candidate in last month's municipal elections, Guinness Rishi didn't do any campaigning. In fact, he thinks the...

Obama's counter-terrorism advisor defends drone strikes

WASHINGTON — President Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor Monday defended using drones to launch missiles against militants in...

L.A. County transit leaders award rail car contract to Japanese firm

In a break with Los Angeles' powerful organized labor movement, county transportation leaders on Monday awarded a crucial $890-million...

Lawyer in Afghan murder case hopes to put the war on trial

SEATTLE — John Henry Browne's first brush with the U.S. military was during the Vietnam War. The lanky attorney, then a student who...

Blind Chinese dissident at U.S. Embassy in Beijing, backers say

WASHINGTON — A blind Chinese dissident who escaped from house arrest is under U.S. protection, his supporters said Saturday,...

Failed assassination try in Afghanistan leaves 4 dead

KABUL, Afghanistan — Turban bombs had become too obvious. So the two men who apparently set out Saturday to assassinate Kandahar's...

Dissident Chen Guangcheng's case complicates U.S.-China ties

WASHINGTON — Even before a blind human rights lawyer slipped away from house arrest in rural China last week, Washington and Beijing...

Pakistani prime minister's conviction could mean his ouster

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's Supreme Court convicted Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday of contempt for failing to...

Member of Afghan elite forces blamed in attack on NATO

KABUL, Afghanistan — For the first time, a member of Afghanistan's elite special forces has carried out a deadly attack against an...

SEC inquiry creates buzz at Beijing film festival

BEIJING — News of a U.S. government inquiry into Hollywood studios' business practices in China — now their largest foreign...

SUVs are big in China

BEIJING — Fuel-efficient vehicles are the rage in the United States, but in China gas-guzzling SUVs are looming large.

China dissident escapes from house arrest

BEIJING — The blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng escaped from house arrest last weekend during a rescue operation mounted...

Fallen Chinese official and wife rose in politics and business

BEIJING — The intersection of money and politics in China has rarely been so glaring as in the case of ousted Communist Party official...

Hindus in Pakistan accuse Muslims of kidnapping teens as wives

JACOBABAD, Pakistan — Rachna Kumari, 16, was shopping for dresses in this city's dust-choked bazaar when it happened.

For many in India, landfill is a livelihood and a home

NEW DELHI — The children didn't notice the ravens and occasional vulture circling overhead, or the stream of black ooze that flowed...

Group swiftly gets crucial supplies to troops in Afghanistan

OAKLAND — Aaron Negherbon remembers the plaintive email he received from a Marine sergeant in Afghanistan.

Beijing film festival opens amid China's movie industry boom

BEIJING — The second annual Beijing International Film Festival opens Monday amid a film industry boom in China.

Afghanistan leader seeks swifter troop pullout amid photos furor

KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai suggested Thursday that a speeded-up departure of Western troops is the only way to...

SEC contacts Hollywood studios over China dealings

The Securities and Exchange Commission has sent letters to at least four major Hollywood studios, including Walt Disney Studios and...

Photos of U.S. soldiers posing with Afghan corpses prompt condemnation

From the White House to the American Embassy in Kabul, American officials rushed to distance themselves from the actions of U.S. soldiers...

Afghanistan needs firm security funding pledges, U.S. says

BRUSSELS — The United States and its allies are promising to provide more than $4 billion a year for Afghanistan's army and police...

India woman is an 'untouchable,' with a Midas touch

NEW DELHI — She was called dirty, ugly, a "little packet of poison," the offspring of donkeys. These days, Kalpana Saroj is called...

U.S. troops posed with body parts of Afghan bombers

The paratroopers had their assignment: Check out reports that Afghan police had recovered the mangled remains of an insurgent suicide...

Japan still divided over nuclear power after Fukushima

The prospect of power shortages in Japan this summer, of stifling city apartments and manufacturing slowdowns, has divided a country still...

Seoul Philharmonic extends a hand

Classical music has a long and fruitful history serving as an informal olive branch between hostile countries. Cultural exchanges between...

Two former execs of O.C. firm plead guilty in foreign bribery case

Two former executives of an Orange County company pleaded guilty to foreign corruption charges for bribing overseas government officials...

India ballistic missile test is a success

NEW DELHI — India on Thursday successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile that landed 20 minutes...

Afghanistan attacks seem intended to humiliate

KABUL, Afghanistan — The brazen and well-coordinated attacks by insurgents against four embassies and other key sites in the heart...

In China, foot binding slowly slips into history

LIUYI, China — Bathed in a faint afternoon sunlight that seems to highlight every wrinkle on her face and hands, Fu Huiying hobbles...

North Korea's failed missile may foreshadow nuclear test

WASHINGTON — The spectacular failure of a North Korean rocket, and the humiliation it presumably caused the nation's young new leader,...

North Korea has long put weapons ahead of food for its people

BEIJING — For decades,North Korea's leaders have bet heavily on a stark calculation: In order to survive, they need to nurture their...

North Korea rocket failure may ease world's nuclear fear

Fear that North Korea might be positioning itself to market weapons technology to other developing nations may have been eased by its latest...

China's exports keep rising despite higher costs

HUIZHOU, China — Tony Zhang used to make cents on the dollar churning out cheap sneakers for Wal-Mart.

Afghan forces' strengths, failures on display in Kabul siege

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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