The leader of a shadowy Russian private mercenary corps has been spotted at a lavish Kremlin reception for holders of military honors, in the strongest indication yet of the key…
continue readingThe European Union (EU) condemned Russia’s controversial “foreign agent” law after a Moscow court upheld the Justice Ministry’s decision to designate a prominent human rights organization as a foreign agent.…
continue readingChina has expressed “serious concerns” about President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to call into question the United States’ continued adherence to the “one China” policy. Since 1979, no United States president…
continue readingAn influential official who had been seen as the late President Islam Karimov’s possible successor has lost his job as finance minister as the Central Asian country’s new government takes…
continue readingSupporters of Macedonia’s ruling party held a rally at the state electoral commission, claiming the opposition was trying to steal their victory in this week’s election. They chanted patriotic slogans…
continue readingKyrgyzstan is preparing to issue updated bank notes, and one of the bills has some citizens seeing red. They think there’s something very odd about the portrait of a renowned…
continue readingAzerbaijani authorities say a Russian blogger who is wanted in Baku on separatism charges has been detained in Belarus. …
continue readingPhilippine environment officials have canceled a compliance certificate for a housing project by President-elect Donald Trump’s business associate, saying it would endanger a watershed that supplies drinking water to 12…
continue readingAs Kazakhstan celebrates the 25th anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union, some citizens are marking different anniversaries that are getting no attention from the government. …
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continue readingPakistan says “it would be willing” to discuss with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s administration freedom for a jailed Pakistani doctor who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden.…
continue readingJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin ended two days of talks without any significant breakthrough on the major issue that divides them, a territorial dispute that…
continue readingThe Philippines would not protest China’s moves to militarize its man-made islands in the South China Sea, Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay said Friday, amid Manila’s efforts to improve ties with…
continue readingLast month, the leader of a hard-line Muslim group, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), was hospitalized after being beaten up by the Indonesian military at his own headquarters. Actually, nothing…
continue readingThe stormy resignation of the Philippine vice president from her country’s Cabinet will allow her to mount more opposition to the deadly, internationally controversial anti-drug campaign of President Rodrigo Duterte,…
continue readingU.S. President-elect Donald Trump delivered another installment in his “thank you” tour Thursday to states that helped him cinch the presidential election, and used the occasion to slam Barack Obama’s…
continue readingEvacuations of rebel fighters and civilians continued from the eastern Aleppo in Syria on December 16, under a cease-fire deal that would see the government retake the city, officials and…
continue readingIt’s been over a month since Donald Trump pulled off an upset victory over Hillary Clinton, bringing an end to one of the most contentious presidential campaigns in U.S. history.…
continue readingFour Syrian organizations have accused Russia of committing or being complicit in war crimes in Syria, saying Russian air strikes in the Aleppo area had killed 1,207 civilians, including 380…
continue readingRefugees from the genocide in Cambodia lost their country when they fled the Khmer Rouge regime 40 years ago. Now settled in the United States, many Cambodian-Americans are afraid of…
continue readingAmerican voters had their say more than a month ago. But in terms of the U.S. Constitution, the president is still to be chosen. That is because of a system…
continue readingImmigrants often struggle to assimilate while retaining the culture of their homeland. Cambodian-Americans fled the Khmer Rouge regime 40 years ago and many settled in Long Beach, California. Now many…
continue readingThe Roman Catholic Church is mediating last-ditch talks in the Democratic Republic of Congo to try to resolve political tensions over delayed elections. President Joseph Kabila’s elected mandate ends Monday,…
continue readingSeveral thousand people have been evacuated from an enclave in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Humanitarian groups say the full evacuation of civilians, and rebels and their families could take…
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