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The North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, talking with Wang Jiarui of China on Friday. Kim had not met with a foreigner since he suffered a possible stroke, in August.
By CHOE SANG-HUN
Kim Jong Il met with a senior Chinese Communist Party official in Pyongyang on Friday, both Chinese and North Korean media reported. It was the North Korean leader's first known meeting with a foreign visitor since he reportedly suffered a stroke around August.
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Manmohan Singh successfully underwent a bypass, an official of his party told reporters.
By RICHARD A. OPPEL JR.
Two missile attacks launched from unmanned U.S. aircraft suggest that the strategy of using drones to kill militants inside Pakistan will continue.
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By PANKAJ MISHRA
Yu Hua has written the sprawling novel of his country's boom years — entrancing and angering millions of Chinese in the process.
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By SOMINI SENGUPTA
As a military offensive by Sri Lanka whittles away one of the world's shrewdest and most well-armed ethnic separatist armies, the cost of war is mounting and the political endgame remains as elusive as ever.
By DONALD G. MCNEIL JR.
A pig handler in the Philippines has tested positive for a strain of the Ebola virus, officials announced Friday.
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By JACKIE CALMES
Barack Obama may have no choice but to deal with Beijing in a more aggressive manner than George W. Bush did.
By KEITH BRADSHER
The combined national, provincial and local spending promises to change the face of China, giving the country a world-class infrastructure to move goods and people quickly, cheaply and reliably across great distances.
By DAVID BARBOZA
Three men were sentenced to death and a top dairy executive to life in prison for producing and selling melamine-tainted milk products.
By DEXTER FILKINS
The coalition lacks sufficient forces to confront the Taliban in the Afghan countryside.
By EDWARD WONG
China plans to spend $123 billion by 2011 to establish universal health care for the country's 1.3 billion people.
By RICHARD A. OPPEL JR.
A Saudi Arabian believed to have been involved in the 2005 London attacks has been detained in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan.
By JENNIFER PINKOWSKI
Chinese tourists are flocking to Kota Kinabalu, a Malaysian resort town, to feast on live reef fish for cheap -- and potentially devastating populations in the Coral Triangle in the process.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits Pakistan in effort to encourage cooperation with India.
With winter approaching, many newly-returned Afghans are on the brink of desperation in the eastern desert.
While China's working class tighten their belts the middle class is happy to spend money on low ticket items.
More than 150 people, including at least 22 foreigners, were confirmed killed in the attacks across the city.
Indian commandos tried to disable armed militants in Mumbai on Friday
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