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Practitioners of purity push young people who embrace diversity and freedom to opt out of political structures. “The dogmatic and moral teachings of the …

Tony Abbott, Australia’s climate-change skeptic in chief, may be in for some heated exchanges at the White House next week. Abbott visits Washington just as …

The June 4 local elections have ended in a tie between the two major parties. Neither the ruling Saenuri Party nor the main opposition New Politics Alliance …

WASHINGTON ― When CBS News brought Dwight Eisenhower back to Normandy for the 20th anniversary of the D-Day landings in 1964, you might have expected the …

Following the Sewol ferry tragedy, uprooting the so-called “bureaucratic mafia” has emerged as an urgent national task. Last month, President Park Geun-hye …

Ukraine has hit on a good way to keep Russia’s annexation of Crimea on the world agenda: Sue for compensation. Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to …

The defeat of a candidate from the Malaysian opposition in the Teluk Intan by-election over the weekend came as a shock to the Pakatan Rakyat alliance, not …

India is on the cusp of immense change. The election of Narendra Modi ― an unthinkable outcome as recently as a year ago ― will alter Asian, if not global, …

Thailand is too busy with domestic affairs to play mediator between ASEAN and Beijing in the South China Sea, where territorial disputes have escalated …

Grace, tolerance, mercy: these words seem to have disappeared from the lexicon of Pakistani polity. Instead, vengeance, violence, slander and murder seem to …