Chinese artist Ai Weiwei faces tax evasion charges
Ai Weiwei, the dissident artist whose arrest has prompted an international outcry, is being charged with evading "huge amounts" of taxes,...
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Japan utility chief resigns over nuclear crisis
Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Masataka Shimizu resigned Friday in the face of increasing allegations that the utility has mishandled...
Pakistani killed in attack on U.S. vehicles in Peshawar
A car bombing Friday targeted two U.S. Consulate vehicles in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing a Pakistani bystander and slightly...
China, South Korea set to visit Japan's quake-tsunami region
In a gesture that experts believe may improve the often testy relations between Japan and two of its neighbors in Northeast Asia, the...
36 killed in attack on work crew in Afghanistan
Insurgents massacred 36 workers at a road-construction encampment in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, provincial and company officials said,...
Cheese-makers chase huge new market in China
In her two years working at a French specialty foods shop in Beijing, Li Mengling has had an opportunity to taste imported goods that people...
25 killed in Afghanistan protest, car bombing
Furious anti-American protesters poured into the streets of a city in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, shouting out objections to an...
Gates sees no evidence top Pakistani officials knew of Bin Laden's hide-out
Osama bin Laden's hide-out was probably known to "somebody" in Pakistan before the U.S. raid that killed him, but there is no sign that...
Japan slips back into recession
Japan's economy shrank last quarter by almost double the margin economists had expected, as the March disaster pushed the country back...
Afghanistan female journalist has notebook, will report
Mina Habib has been waiting for half an hour at police headquarters, preparing for a showdown with the chief of criminal investigations.
NATO helicopters crossed into airspace, Pakistan says
Pakistani authorities said two NATO helicopters crossed from Afghanistan into their country's airspace Tuesday and exchanged gunfire with an...
In Japan, a seaside mayor rebuilds his life by rebuilding his town
Futoshi Toba arrived at the hillside Buddhist temple just after dawn, hours before the other mourners, on the April day he bid farewell to...
Kerry seeks to mend fences in Pakistan
Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts and top Pakistani officials on Monday agreed that Washington and Islamabad would work...
'Small group' knew about Bin Laden compound, ex-official says
James L. Jones, former national security advisor to President Obama, was long gone from the White House when U.S. Navy SEALs killed Osama...
4 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan
A powerful homemade bomb killed four U.S. service members Monday in southern Afghanistan, military officials said, an unusually high...
Japan's thin, white security blanket
Leaning against a wall in the busy Akihabara electronics district here, Tomomitsu Funayama was enjoying a do-nothing day off from his...
Tackling mental health problems in Afghanistan
The group therapy session at Afghanistan's flagship mental health hospital began, as many do, with sharing.
Pakistan condemns Bin Laden raid, threatens reprisals for drone strikes
At a marathon closed-door session, Pakistan's parliament Saturday joined the country's intelligence chief in strongly condemning the U.S....
Afghans protest killing of teenage boy by U.S. forces
Hundreds of Afghans demonstrated Saturday after a 15-year-old boy was killed by U.S. forces in a volatile eastern province. At least one...
India elections see West Bengal's longtime communist government fall
India wrapped up its biggest political event of the year Friday as results were announced in four state elections, including an end to the...
U.S.-Pakistani relations may suffer after brutal suicide attack
Twin suicide bombings Friday that killed at least 80 paramilitary recruits in northwest Pakistan, in an attack that Taliban militants said...
Pakistani bombings kill 80
Two bomb blasts outside a Pakistani paramilitary base killed 80 people near the city of Charsadda on Friday in what appeared to be the first...
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