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ROME (AP) — Rescue crews used boats and aircraft on Saturday to search for a small plane that disappeared in Venezuela carrying the...
By Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times
BOGOTA, Colombia — Venezuela's government, facing demands from opposition leaders to say whether ailing President Hugo Chavez...
By Ralph Jennings, Los Angeles Times
XIANG TIAN HU, Taiwan — Chu Kuo-sheng danced for 24 hours in the cold mountain rain to draw attention to a seldom-discussed chapter of...
By Tracy Wilkinson
Los Angeles Times
By Matthew Teague, Los Angeles Times
SANTO ANTONIO, Brazil — The wind blows in from the river, mingling with the scent of the day's last meal in the kitchen. The smells of...
By Tanvi Sharma and Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI — Police charged six suspects in India with murder Saturday just hours after the victim of a gang rape died, in a case...
By John Hannon, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — The men who barged through Shen Jianzhong's door probably thought it was a routine assignment: Break in and beat Shen's...
By Ramin Mostaghim and Alexandra Sandels, Los Angeles Times
TEHRAN — As rebel forces advance and longtime allies in Moscow distance themselves, Syria's most faithful friend is recalculating as...
By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times
BEIJING — Shunned by the most of the world as a pariah state, North Korea is cementing ties with its old patron, China, with trade...
By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Unlike most women in Afghanistan, Sourya Saleh knows how to drive — but she's taken the wheel only with her...
By Ned Parker and Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi made a new push Thursday to draw Syrian officials and rebels into negotiations, aiming to...
By Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Thursday that he expects to sign a measure banning adoptions of Russian children...
By Ned Parker, Los Angeles Times
BEIRUT — Twenty people were killed Wednesday in fighting in a small Syrian village, according to opposition activists, as the...
By Nabih Bulos and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
ZAATARI CAMP, Jordan — Rumors that four infants perished from the cold prompted an outcry last month at this sprawling site, by far...
By Jeffrey Fleishman and Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
AL SARRAIN, Yemen — The U.S. drone flew over a cluster of mud houses on a ridge and, according to Yemeni officials, locked onto...