Chinese, Japanese and South Korean Ministers to Resume Three-Way Talks

Chinese, Japanese and South Korean Ministers to Resume Three-Way Talks
Serena Williams Withdraws From Indian Wells With Knee Injury
World Briefing: Urging Treatment for Activist in Jail in China, 16 Are Briefly Detained Themselves
A Life Upended After an IV Glucose Treatment Popular Among Asian Immigrants
Merkel Warns That Greece Will Receive Aid Only if Reforms Are Met
Liberia Reports First Ebola Case in Weeks
World Briefing: Mexico: Elite Police Officers Slain
Suicide Attacks at Mosques in Yemen Kill More Than 130
White House Antagonism Toward Netanyahu Grows
In Tunisia, Taking Stock of the Dead, and the Survivors
In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat
What They Did in the War: Two Japanese Actresses’ Propaganda Work
A Day After a Killing, Afghans React in Horror, but Some Show Approval
Undoing the Ruins Once Wrought by Vesuvius
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Posted: 20 Mar 2015 11:22 PM PDT

The Asian neighbors' foreign ministers were in Seoul on Saturday to discuss improving ties that have been strained by historical and territorial disputes.

Serena Williams Withdraws From Indian Wells With Knee Injury

Posted: 20 Mar 2015 10:11 PM PDT

Williams withdrew before her semifinal at the BNP Paribas Open on Friday night with a right knee injury, 14 years after her sister, Venus, did the same thing and fans reacted angrily, driving Serena to boycott the tournament.

World Briefing: Urging Treatment for Activist in Jail in China, 16 Are Briefly Detained Themselves

Posted: 20 Mar 2015 07:33 PM PDT

The supporters of Wu Rongrong had gone to a Beijing detention center on her behalf. One of five women's rights activists being held, she has hepatitis.

A Life Upended After an IV Glucose Treatment Popular Among Asian Immigrants

Posted: 20 Mar 2015 07:22 PM PDT

Two years since undergoing amputations after receiving a treatment known as a ringer, Myung Hwa Jang has become comfortable with daily routines like climbing into bed and grocery shopping.

Merkel Warns That Greece Will Receive Aid Only if Reforms Are Met

Posted: 20 Mar 2015 07:19 PM PDT

The statement, at a European Union leaders' summit meeting, came as Greece scraped together enough money to pay around $2.17 billion in debts.

Liberia Reports First Ebola Case in Weeks

Posted: 20 Mar 2015 07:05 PM PDT

Confirmation that a patient tested positive deflated hope that Liberia was now free of the Ebola virus.

World Briefing: Mexico: Elite Police Officers Slain

Posted: 20 Mar 2015 06:28 PM PDT

A new, elite federal police unit intended to be a premiere force against drug gangs suffered its biggest loss this week when five members were killed in an ambush, federal officials said Friday.

Suicide Attacks at Mosques in Yemen Kill More Than 130

Posted: 20 Mar 2015 06:02 PM PDT

An affiliate of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks at two Zaydi Shiite mosques in Sana, the capital.

White House Antagonism Toward Netanyahu Grows

Posted: 20 Mar 2015 06:01 PM PDT

Despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's election victory, he is still out of the good graces of the Obama administration, which has had to reassess its policy toward Israel.

In Tunisia, Taking Stock of the Dead, and the Survivors

Posted: 20 Mar 2015 05:11 PM PDT

The victims of the attack on the National Bardo Museum in Tunis were mostly foreigners, and their families have begun arriving to take them home.

In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat

Posted: 20 Mar 2015 04:03 PM PDT

Vladimir Tolstoy, a great-great-grandson of the novelist, seeks to bridge the divide between ardent nationalists and liberal intellectuals in serving as a cultural adviser to the president.

What They Did in the War: Two Japanese Actresses’ Propaganda Work

Posted: 20 Mar 2015 03:39 PM PDT

A Japan Society film series looks at the careers of Shirley Yamaguchi and Setsuko Hara, including their work in films supporting Japan's war aims.

A Day After a Killing, Afghans React in Horror, but Some Show Approval

Posted: 20 Mar 2015 03:33 PM PDT

Differing responses to the mob killing in Kabul of a mentally troubled woman accused of burning the Quran show how Afghans' commitment to Islam can clash with Western values of individual rights.