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GUANGZHOU, China — Their drab concrete apartment buildings are starting to look more like Spanish villas with red-tiled r...
BEIJING — A 13-year-old American boy became the youngest climber to reach the top of Mount Everest on Saturday, surpassing the previous record set by a 16-year-old Nepal...
NEW DELHI — An Air India Express plane trying to land in the rain at a tricky hilltop airport in southern India overshot the runway, crashed and burst into flames at daw...
BEIJING — The Dalai Lama tried to hold a rare direct conversation with people inside China on Friday, answering questions live on Twitter about the fate of long-tense Ti...
S. Korean sub sunk in March
TOKYO — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said today evidence was "overwhelming" that a North Korean submarine sank a South Korean war...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Searchers found no survivors today among 44 people on board an Afghan commercial airliner that crashed this week on a remote mountain north of the c...
TEHRAN, Iran — Three Americans jailed in Iran for 10 months met with their mothers a second time today as Iranian authorities used their visit to underline their complai...
SEOUL, South Korea — Evidence overwhelmingly proves North Korea fired a torpedo that sank a South Korean warship in March, killing 46 sailors, investigators said today.
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BEIJING — At least five men armed with knives burst into the dormitory of a vocational college and slashed nine students today, one of them seriously, in the latest knif...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgents launched a brazen pre-dawn assault today against the giant U.S.-run Bagram Air Field, the second Taliban strike at NATO forces in and aro...
