COLOMBO/SINGAPORE—Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa submitted a letter of resignation on Thursday, a spokesperson for the parliamentary speaker said, hours after fleeing to Singapore following mass protests ...

COLOMBO—Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled to the Maldives on Wednesday, telephoned the speaker of parliament saying that his resignation letter will be sent later ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—The president of Sri Lanka fled the country early Wednesday, days after protesters stormed his home and office and the official residence of his ...

COLOMBO—Leaders of the protest movement in Sri Lanka who have forced the president and prime minister out of their official residences said on Sunday they will ...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has revealed that President Joe Biden can count on her endorsement to stay in the White House for a second ...

MANILA—Ferdinand Marcos, the son of the Philippine ruler overthrown in a popular uprising 36 years ago, was sworn in as the country’s president on Thursday, promising ...

The Jan. 6 Select Committee is underway and proving that investigations into former President Donald Trump are infinite and endless, but they aren’t the types of ...

Elon Musk on June 15 said he is leaning toward voting for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for president in the 2024 election and predicted that a ...

SEOUL—South Korea’s new president Yoon Suk-yeol said on Tuesday that North Korea’s weapons programs pose a threat but that he is ready to provide an “audacious” ...

MEXICO CITY—Mexicans voted Sunday on whether their president should end his six-year term barely midway through or continue to the end. Strangely, President Andrés Manuel López ...

BELGRADE—Serbia’s incumbent President Aleksandar Vucic is set to win the presidential vote on Sunday with 59.8 percent of the votes, according to a projection by pollsters ...

BRASILIA—Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was discharged from hospital on Tuesday morning after spending the night there for tests, the president’s office said. Bolsonaro was hospitalized in ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Kyiv and Moscow were inching closer to putting an end to their armed conflict, with “almost a consensus” on ...

Former top prosecutor Yoon Suk Yeol was elected South Korea’s new president on Thursday. He defeated his chief rival in one of the country’s most closely fought ...

South Korea will elect a new president for a single, five-year term this Wednesday. The election comes amid growing tensions in the Indo-Pacific region. NTD took ...

OUAGADOUGOU—Burkina Faso’s army said on Monday it had ousted President Roch Kabore, suspended the constitution, dissolved the government and the national assembly, and closed the country’s ...

Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Tuesday said that booster shots would be provided free of charge to all citizens, with the elderly and vulnerable groups given ...

The Russian-backed Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) has agreed to send in military forces to Kazakhstan to combat what has been called a “terrorist threat” after thousands ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil—Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was taken to a Sao Paulo hospital for tests early Monday after experiencing abdominal discomfort, the government said. Bolsonaro is ...

Tributes from fellow actors and comedians poured in on social media Friday in reaction to the death of Betty White. “The Golden Girls” star was 99. ...

Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who has been serving a 22-year prison term for corruption charges, was granted a special pardon by the government on ...

Edward Durr, a commercial truck driver for 25 years, unseated in the Nov. 2 election the long-tenured New Jersey Senate president, according to unofficial election results ...

A judge in Illinois on Friday ordered the head of the Chicago police union to stop encouraging members not to get a COVID-19 vaccine, just hours ...

Former Philippines senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. declared on Tuesday that he will run for president in next year’s elections, following weeks of speculation about his future in politics. Marcos Jr., ...

Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country allowing the Taliban to take the capital unopposed on Sunday, claimed in May that his government could ...

Hundreds of thousands of Belarusians took to the streets one year ago in the biggest challenge to Alexander Lukashenko’s rule since he became president in 1994. With ...