North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent his sister to the border with South Korea on Wednesday to offer condolences for the death of a former first lady, in the first significant interaction between the ...

Simon Denyer is China Bureau Chief for the Washington Post. Photo courtesy of the Washington Post. In China, facial recognition technology is pushing the country toward complete surveillance of its ...

One of the irritating aspects of writing a book about current events is that those events change faster than the book can reach the market. Simon Denyer’s account of Indian politics and society comes ...

Faiza Abou el-Naga had become a major thorn in America’s side since leading a crackdown on foreign-funded pro-democracy organizations, and analysts said officials in Washington would be relieved to ...

The confession of a Hindu holy man suggests Hindu radicals were behind bomb attacks on Muslims in India. The revelations is forcing India to examine prejudices within the police but, ironically, made ...

Nine-year-old jokingly observes that China's president might like to lose some weight, but censors don't get the joke. He presides over a one-party state that silences its critics ruthlessly. But ...

The coalition fired at least two large guided missiles at the sprawling complex where Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi lives in Tripoli. Libya’s government accused NATO on Monday of trying to assassinate ...