South East Asia correspondent
Getty ImagesAs the noise and colour of a two-month election campaign subsides, a game of thrones between the two most powerful families…
Hong Kong
CNN
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping has taken aim at “bullying” and “hegemonism,” in his first public remarks since a temporary truce over tariffs was agreed…
NEW DELHI (AP) — India has only “paused” its military action and will “retaliate on its own terms” if there is any future terror attack on the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday in…
South Asia Regional Editor
ReutersFor decades, if there’s one thing that’s been a taboo in the Indian foreign ministry, it is third-party mediation – particularly in the…
JERUSALEM (AP) — Edan Alexander was 19 when Hamas militants stormed the Israeli military base where the American-Israeli from New Jersey was a soldier and dragged him into the Gaza Strip.
Hamas released…
The United Nations’ aviation council on Monday, ruled that Russia was responsible for downing of the Malaysian Airlines flight over Ukraine, which killed all of the nearly 300 people on board in 2014.
This number included 196 Dutch citizens and…
Manila, Philippines
Reuters
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Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was almost certain to be elected mayor of his home city by a landslide on Monday, unimpeded by his