White House rivals Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were still flailing for a knockout blow Monday as a presidential race that has cast a pall over US democracy neared its end.
Prosecutors said Monday they have discovered recorded phone conversations between a former presidential aide and President Park Geun-hye's longtime friend who is suspected to have peddled influence and meddled in state affairs using her ties to the chief executive.
A new opinion poll indicated on Monday that South Korean President Park Geun-hye's approval rating remained in the doldrums amid an influence-peddling scandal involving her confidante, although her support from conservative and senior citizens managed to edge up after her second apology.
Prime Minister Theresa May will tell European Union officials on Friday that a court ruling requiring a parliamentary vote will not derail her timetable for Britain to leave the bloc.
Thailand’s politically powerful rice farmers are becoming the new battleground between the country’s junta and ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, with both trying to woo their support amid concerns of a flashpoint ahead of 2017 elections.
Rival political parties in South Korea showed different reactions to President Park Geun-hye's national address on Friday, her second since a scandal involving her longtime confidante and former aides came into focus last month.
President Park Geun-hye saw her approval rating crash to 5 percent, the lowest for sitting South Korean presidents, as an influence-peddling scandal involving her longtime friend rattled her presidency, data showed Friday,
President Park Geun-hye said Friday she will accept an investigation over a sprawling corruption scandal involving her close confidante "if necessary," raising the prospect of her becoming the first sitting South Korean head of state to face a prosecutorial probe.
Hsia Meng, the great beauty of 1950s Hong Kong cinema who was renowned as martial arts novelist Jin Yong's muse and unattainable love, has died, said Apple Daily. She was 83.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Thursday named her new chief of staff and her secretary on political affairs after the former senior policy adviser was placed under an emergency detention in a follow-up reshuffle amid rising public anger at a scandal surrounding Choi Soon-sil, Park's longtime confidante suspected of having meddled in state affairs.
Choi Soon-sil, a confidante of President Park Geun-hye, was questioned by prosecutors Monday over allegations of interfering in state affairs and peddling influence, a day after she returned from Europe where she had been residing for nearly two months.
Choi Soon-sil, a longtime confidante of President Park Geun-hye who allegedly calls Park "sister," is suspected of having pulled strings behind the scenes and intervened in state affairs.
South Korean prosecutors on Saturday (Oct 29) raided the presidential Blue House, as well as the homes and offices of senior advisers to President Park Geun Hye, as she struggled with a corruption and influence-peddling scandal involving a close family friend.
A photo showing a primary school pupil with one leg chained to a lamp post at an apartment building has gone viral on the internet, shocking many Malaysians who took to social media to voice their anger.
South Koreans have been riveted for weeks by a scandal involving the president and a shadowy adviser accused of being a "shaman fortune-teller" by opposition politicians.
It’s 1.30am and Lady Gaga is on the brink of tears.
President Park Geun Hye's brief apology Tuesday afternoon that lasted all of 1 1/2 minutes was the final blow for those who had been holding out hope that what they had seen in the news was not true.
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