Japan's new Emperor Naruhito ascends throne as Reiwa era begins
Japan's new emperor, Naruhito, has formally ascended to the Chrysanthemum Throne, replacing his father, Akihito, who had abdicated a day earlier.
Rahul asked to clear citizenship status
India’s government has asked Rahul Gandhi, the president of the main opposition Congress party, to respond to a complaint by a lawmaker from prime minister Narendra Modi’s party accusing him of holding dual British citizenship against Indian law.
TERROR ATTACK Plot still on in Sri Lanka: US
The US ambassador to Sri Lanka said on Tuesday that some of the Islamist militants behind Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 250 people were likely still at large and could be planning more attacks.
From deity to people's Emperor: The man who pushed imperial boundaries
Japan's 85-year-old monarch was born the son of a deity, but he's retiring as the people's Emperor.
The coming of American Fascism, 1920-1940
FASCISM is usually thought of as a quintessentially and almost exclusively European phenomenon, as having begun with Mussolini, culminated with Hitler, and been eradicated in
BRI: a historic opportunity
CHINA’S president Xi Jinping hosted the Second Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on April 26–27 — 125 countries and 40 international organisations have joined the Belt and Road Initiative.
SRI LANKA BLASTS Terrorism targets another Chinese ally
Sri Lanka’s violence is an artificial construct carried out by a tiny minority of extremists on either side of an equally artificial ethnoreligious divide. The nation and the region must unite in purpose.
China is watching Western democracy eat itself
Over the next few months, the world's current and previous superpowers are set to undergo enormous self-harm.
15 killed as Sri Lanka forces raid Islamist hideout
Fifteen people including six children died in a battle between Sri Lankan security forces and suicide bombers who blew themselves up in the latest fallout from the Easter attacks, police said Saturday.
China's billion-dollar Belt and Road party: Who's in and who's out
Leaders from across the world have arrived in Beijing for the second Belt and Road Forum, drawn by the possibility of billions of dollars in Chinese funding for infrastructure projects.
