President Park Geun-hye's new chief of staff held talks with the head of the ruling Saenuri Party and the parliamentary speaker Monday but failed to meet opposition leaders, as the embattled chief executive is calling for a meeting of political leaders to resolve the burgeoning scandal surrounding her confidante.
Venezuela's socialist government and the opposition on Monday announced talks for the weekend to deal with a political standoff that has intensified since the suspension of a referendum drive to remove President Nicolas Maduro.
As foreign representatives gathered Tuesday on Margarita Island off Venezuela's northeastern coast to participate in the 17th Non-Aligned Movement Summit, President Nicolas Maduro's opponents did not ease pressure on him.
Cambodia's Phnom Penh Municipal Court began trial of deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha on Friday for his "refusal to appear" in a prostitution case.
Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro claimed to have mobilised a million demonstrators on Thursday (Sept 1) in the biggest rally in decades, demanding a referendum on removing him from power.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Tuesday welcomed the signing of a roadmap agreement by Sudanese opposition groups to end conflicts in Sudan.
Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Monday sued opposition leader Sam Rainsy and opposition senator Thak Lany for accusing him of having political analyst Kem Ley murdered.
The Roman Catholic Church may soon join Ibero-American leaders seeking dialogue between Venezuela's feuding government and opposition, the head of a regional bloc said on Thursday.
Papua New Guinea's embattled prime minister will have a long week of wheeling-and-dealing in order to maintain power after his political opposition forced a one week adjournment as social unrest mounts.
Official campaigning began on Thursday for the July 31 gubernatorial election, pitting two former ministers with links to the metropolitan assembly’s ruling party against a veteran journalist backed by a united opposition front.
The South Sudanese government was committed to the peace agreement signed in August 2015 that ended nearly two years of civil war, said James Pitia Morgan, South Sudan's permanent representative to the African Union.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe began an upper house election campaign on Wednesday with a pledge to rev-up the economy as surveys showed his ruling bloc ahead, despite doubts over Abe’s growth recipe and his push to revise the pacifist constitution.
With regard to the latest political turmoil in Latin American countries, observers have pointed their fingers at the United States, saying Washington has a hand in it but in a more disguised way than ever.
Following the announcement by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that polling for the upper house election will begin on July 10, both the ruling coalition and opposition parties on Thursday began their campaign offenses.
Police in Cambodia are blocking opposition activists from staging a protest march, as both sides spar over intensifying government pressure on its critics.
A Cambodian court on Friday convicted three military commandos of beating up two opposition lawmakers outside the parliament last year, and sentenced them to one year each in prison. The legislators’ lawyer called the punishment too lenient.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will attend a parliament session today (today) to answer the questions of the opposition on the PanamaLeaks.
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