The next U.S. president is likely to face investigations by the rival party no matter who wins the White House next Tuesday, according to local media.
With the Upper House election looming, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's campaign strategy, which has been to oversell his economic policies while being evasive about his true political goal of revising the pacifist Constitution, has raised concerns of leading the voters astray and sending Japan down a dangerous road.
After staging a historic sit-in protest in the U.S. House of Representatives, House Democratic lawmakers are planning a "day of action" nationwide next week to keep pushing for gun control.
Tens of thousands of anti-Abe government protesters held simultaneous demonstrations across Japan on June 5, demanding the abolishment of national security legislation and urging voters to support opposition parties in the Upper House election.
US President Barack Obama will host a state dinner for Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the White House on Aug 2, marking the first time PM Lee has been honoured with such a function.
U.S. lawmakers are looking to use a defense policy bill to increase restrictions on military aid for Pakistan, expressing frustration with what they see as Islamabad´s failure to crack down on Afghanistan´s militant Haqqani network.
Nobody should be surprised when the present House of Representatives, dominated by penurious reactionaries, produces a stingy response to a danger that calls for compassionate largess. But for sheer fecklessness it’s hard to top the House’s response this week to the Zika virus.
In a last-minute move to halt the Senate voting which may suspend President Dilma Rousseff from office, Brazil's attorney general filed on Tuesday an injunction trying to cancel the impeachment process.
A prominent scholar who blasted a package of security bills as unconstitutional in a high-profile Diet session will run in the Upper House election, targeting swing voters disillusioned with the status quo.
Myanmar's House of Nationalities (Upper House) has agreed to debate on a motion to end fighting in the country's western Rakhine state between the military and the ethnic Arakan Army (AA), parliament sources said on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is so focused on dealing with the earthquake disaster in Kyushu that he has dropped the politically strategic idea of holding a double election this summer, sources said.
Myanmar Minister of Foreign Affairs cum Minister of the President's Office Aung San Suu Kyi has become the country's State Counselor in accordance with the state counselor bill, passed by both Houses and signed by President U Htin Kyaw Wednesday, according to U Zaw Htay, spokesman of the President's Office.
Myanmar's Lower House on Monday accepted debating a bill calling for appointment of a state counselor in the new cabinet, a post to be created for Aung San Suu Kyi.
Myanmar's Union Parliament Monday approved the formation of a nine-member constitutional tribunal after the military representatives failed to object two of the nominated members for appointment as tribunal members.
U.S. President Barack Obama welcomed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the White House on Thursday, eyeing to promote cooperation on climate change and boost trade between the neighboring countries.
Myanmar is in the transition process for forming a new government in accordance with the result of general election held on Nov. 8 last year.
Myanmar's union parliament Tuesday reset March 10 instead of March 17 for presidential run, for which three groups of the union parliament representatives are to nominate their respective candidates.
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