Politics

Cambodia's former opposition leader faces royal insult charges punishable by a prison term, according to a court summons, the first prominent figure to be accused under the new law. The adoption of the law in February triggered alarm from rights groups who warned it would ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un began a two-day visit Tuesday, Chinese state-run television said, exactly a week after Kim's landmark summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, as Beijing seeks a larger role in talks with Pyongyang over its nuclear weapons. The visit was Kim's ...

South Korea said Monday that sanctions against North Korea could be eased once it takes "substantive steps toward denuclearization," seemingly setting the bar lower than Washington for such a move. Last week's Singapore summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong ...

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's personal popularity is at its highest level in two years, an opinion poll showed Monday, but his government still trails the opposition a month before crucial by-elections. The latest Newspoll, published by The Australian newspaper, gave Turnbull a 40 percent ...

President Donald Trump is falsely crediting his Singapore summit with the destruction of missile launch sites in North Korea. No such action has been announced by the North Koreans. Trump tweeted Sunday in response to criticisms last week from Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have "great chemistry" and claimed the standoff with the nuclear-armed nation is "largely solved." Trump, speaking to reporters outside the White House, said he had given his "very direct" telephone ...

President Donald Trump's nominee for ambassador to South Korea on Thursday backed the idea of a "pause" in major military exercises with South Korea, while talks on the North's nuclear program continue. "The whole landscape has shifted, and I believe that we should give exercises, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he wished people would "sit up at attention" for him like North Koreans do for leader Kim Jong Un — a joke that sparked outrage on social media and cable news. It was the latest example of a ...

Drenched in sweat and more than an hour into a speech urging 16,000 garment factory workers to vote for the ruling party, Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia revived the restless crowd by announcing that everyone would receive a cash gift. "Nephews and nieces, it ...

The White House is defending President Donald Trump's decision to return a military salute to a North Korean three-star general. Presidential spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday that "It's a common courtesy when a military official from another government salutes, that you return that." North Korean ...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo emphasized that Kim Jong Un wouldn't receive sanctions relief until after his complete disarmament, pushing back against North Korean suggestions that penalties would soon start being relaxed. Pompeo — sharing a podium in Seoul with his Japanese and South ...

A defection from Australia's most prominent right-wing political party, Pauline Hanson's One Nation, on Thursday robbed it of its ability to block Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's legislation, raising the prospect he can introduce tax cuts. Brian Burston, who will now sit in the upper house ...