Observers say Cambodia’s change in leader is just an extension of times before,where opponents were threatened with beatings,“only they are younger”.
With a nationwide blackout,a broken economy and a widely contested election result there are only so many things a leader can do to win popular support.
K-pop is blasting into North Korea once more as bizarre tactics ratchet up tensions on the peninsula. We explore what’s behind this “tit-for-tat” in an Explainer updated from earlier this year.
Donald Trump is dangerous because he takes too much of our attention. So much so,people become blind to much larger threats.
Fifty years after a coup ushered in a brutal military rule that imprisoned,disappeared,tortured or killed some 40,000 people,five former prisoners return to the scene of the crimes.
Russia is sinking deeper into the quagmire of Putinism,and there are few signs that the population is resisting the path the president is leading them down.
Monica Macias was just seven when her African despot father left her with another feared leader,Kim Il-sung.
“They’re trying to militarise the whole society,” said Grigory Yudin,a political philosophy professor at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences.
The Voice of Democracy has had its licence taken after leader says the media organisation attacked him and his son.
Readers in Putin’s Russia are rediscovering George Orwell’s dystopian world where totalitarian rulers oppress their citizens to maintain support for their wars.
The movement to restore democracy has evolved into deadly warfare between a ruthless,well-supplied military and a broad but poorly armed resistance movement.