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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 — When their beds began to shake and the dishes clattered off the shelves, people knew what to do this time.
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 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 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 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, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — An impromptu release of a Pentagon intelligence assessment suggesting North Korea could fit a nuclear warhead atop a...
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 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 Kim Murphy
SEATTLE — Since a tsunami struck Japan more than two years ago, a variety of debris has washed up on U.S. beaches —Â ...
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...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — North Korea is sometimes mocked as the mouse that roared, one of the poorest countries in the world threatening two economic...
By David S. Cloud, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Wednesday that it was sending a mobile missile defense system to Guam as a "precautionary move," as...
By Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Nabil Ahmad was at his desk at a logistics support firm last spring when an explosion ripped through the office.
By David S. Cloud and Jung-yoon Choi, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy is moving a sea-based radar platform closer to North Korea to track possible missile launches, a Pentagon...
By Jung-yoon Choi and Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
SEOUL — Escalating the stakes of a standoff with Washington and its allies, North Korea is signaling that it will abandon two...
By John Hannon, Los Angeles Times
GUZHEN, China — At 58, Zhang Hongbing is still tormented by the death of his mother more than four decades ago. She was a victim of...
By Wes Venteicher, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — After Shane Todd, an engineer from Montana, was found hanging by the neck in an apartment in Singapore, police there...
By David Cloud and Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials who once hoped that North Korea's young leader could prove to be a reformer are...
Associated Press
SEOUL — In a show of force after weeks of North Korean bluster, the U.S. on Thursday took the unprecedented step of announcing that...
By Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times
KAMA, Afghanistan — For more than two years, he was part of a secret, CIA-trained advance team for America's shadow war in...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — When a two-engine Chinese turboprop darted over disputed islands in the East China Sea, the first foreign intrusion into...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
RANTHAMBORE, India — The operating rooms are dark and gloomy, the power outages far too frequent; the layout is chaotic, and the...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
By Alex Rodriguez and Kashif Farooqi, Los Angeles Times
KARACHI, Pakistan — When he left power in 2008, he was seen as a dictator who shunned democracy in a country that wanted to embrace...
By Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times
TAGHAR, Afghanistan — In a rugged valley outside Kabul, where mud-walled villages blend into bare scrubland, a team of international...
By Edmund Sanders and Christi Parsons, Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM — President Obama brokered a diplomatic reconciliation between key Middle East allies Israel and Turkey at the end of his...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
MANDALAY, Myanmar — At the height of Western sanctions against the repressive Yangon government, Myanmar air force pilots traveled...
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
REWARI, India — Vijendera Kumar has been sentenced to work and live in a cow shed for six months, feeding and bathing the animals...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A man arrested in Karachi on suspicion of helping in the 2002 kidnapping of American journalist Daniel Pearl...