BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s ruling party on Friday selected as its leader the daughter of Thaksin Shinawatra, the country’s divisive former prime minister, highlighting the family’s continuing influence more than two decades after Thaksin entered politics.Paetongtarn Shinawatra, 37, who ...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/malaysia">Malaysia</a> 's royal families have elected the powerful and wealthy ruler of southern Johor state as the country's new king under a unique rotating monarchy system, the palace said ...
BANGKOK (AP) — A Chinese fighter jet came within 10 feet of an American B-52 bomber flying over the <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/south-china-sea">South China Sea</a>, nearly causing an accident, the U.S. military said, underscoring the potential for a mishap as ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Just three weeks into the deadliest war between Israel and Hamas, it already is clear that the bloodshed has flipped long-standing assumptions in Israel and the region upside down.Israel’s military and intelligence services were exposed as incompetent and ill-prepared. ...
BEIJING (AP) — Former Premier <a href="https://apnews.com/hub/li-keqiang">Li Keqiang</a>, China’s top economic official for a decade, died Friday of a heart attack. He was 68.<a ...
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — They were banned under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin but commonplace under later Kremlin leaders. Now, after less than a century, official attitudes about <a ...