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Byline: Tyler Pager, Matt Viser and Michelle Ye Hee Lee HIROSHIMA, Japan - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived here Saturday for a dramatic last-minute visit to the Group of Seven [...]

Byline: Ishaan Tharoor In Tunisia this week, there was a bleak, if symbolic, convergence. Not long after authorities arrested the country's leading opposition leader as part of a widening crackdown [...]

Byline: Ned Temko Columnist Abstract: Three prominent autocrats, in China, Russia, and Iran, are being pressed to change course. Can they do so without fatally hurting their reputations? It is [...]

Byline: Christian Shepherd Since the days of Mao Zedong, smooth leadership transitions have mostly eluded the Chinese Communist Party. Though it is one of the world's largest political entities, it [...]

Byline: Marc Fisher In a flurry of elections, some of the world's major democracies have been leaning toward or outright embracing far-right authoritarian leaders, who have echoed one another by [...]

Byline: Michael Dobbs This story was originally published on Aug. 22, 1991. It has been republished following Mikhail Gorbachev's death on Tuesday. - - - President Mikhail Gorbachev returned to [...]

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a plan for a referendum on Scottish independence next year, but will have to overcome judges in London and opposition from Boris Johnson. LONDON -- [...]

Byline: Wesley White A little more than two years after President Joe Biden's election, the United States is still dealing with its own cult of personality problem. Polling in May [...]

Byline: FRANK CHING HONG KONG -- Hong Kong-based journalist At the end of April, John Lee - the former chief secretary for administration who is now the sole candidate in [...]

Byline: Maite Fernández Simon New Zealand's Maori Party is calling for the Queen of England to be dropped as head of state, on the 182nd anniversary of the country's founding [...]

Byline: ROBERT FIFE, STEVEN CHASE OTTAWA -- Lead A former Saudi spy chief living in exile in Toronto says the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin [...]

HONG KONG -- Resolving the increasingly violent protests in Hong Kong will most likely fall to an influential group of Beijing's local allies. The trouble: They don't agree on much. [...]

Byline: Tony Romm and Isaac Stanley-Becker Facing a request to boot President Donald Trump from its platform, Twitter on Tuesday affirmed that world leaders are not above its rules but [...]

This editorial appears in The Washington Post: - - - At the core of Hong Kong's discontent is a treasured conviction that it has been and will be governed by [...]

Byline: Shibani Mahtani and Tiffany Liang HONG KONG - Tight-lipped and stoic, embattled Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam faced a barrage of criticism Thursday during a dialogue with randomly selected [...]

WESTERPLATTE, Poland -- President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was not invited. President Trump abruptly canceled. And as other global leaders gathered in Poland on Sunday to commemorate the start [...]

Byline: Shibani Mahtani and Timothy McLaughlin HONG KONG - With her city facing an abyss, in her words, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam strode to the microphone this week and [...]

HONG KONG -- Protesters in Hong Kong kicked off three days of civil disobedience on Saturday with a sprawling march that erupted once again into violent clashes with the police, [...]

Byline: Shibani Mahtani HONG KONG - Civil servants and their supporters defied warnings from their superiors to rally in their thousands in Hong Kong late Friday, in an unprecedented show [...]

HONG KONG -- Hong Kong's embattled leader, Carrie Lam, on Monday condemned violent clashes between a number of protesters and the police over the weekend, as her government scrambled to [...]

Byline: Howard LaFranchi Staff writer Abstract: Japan's Prime Minister Abe has prioritized a personal relationship with U.S. President Trump - a relationship that could be tested at the Group of [...]

Byline: Keith B. Richburg The massive protests in Hong Kong caught officials there by surprise and startled the mainland. Even after Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's Beijing-anointed chief executive, apologized and [...]

Byline: Timothy McLaughlin HONG KONG - Thousands of demonstrators again blocked main city thoroughfares on Friday and, in a new show of displeasure, surrounded police headquarters, demanding that a deeply [...]

HONG KONG -- Thousands of protesters blocked a thoroughfare outside Hong Kong's government offices and surrounded the police headquarters on Friday, adding new pressure on the city's leader to withdraw [...]

Byline: Suzanne Sataline Contributor, Ann Scott Tyson Staff writer Abstract: Hong Kong protesters are increasingly frustrated with Chief Executive Carrie Lam's handling of a controversial bill. But so is Beijing, [...]

HONG KONG -- Before the mass street protests, the tear gas and the clashes with the police, before the government went all out for legislation that could threaten Hong Kong's [...]

HONG KONG -- Carrie Lam, the chief executive of Hong Kong, has a very loyal majority in the territory's legislature. She has the complete backing of the Chinese government. She [...]

Byline: Min Joo Kim and Simon Denyer SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea on Friday abruptly pulled out from a liaison office with South Korea near the border Friday, another [...]

Byline: John Hudson, Anne Gearan and Simon Denyer HANOI, Vietnam - Two days of soaring rhetoric and over-the-top flattery between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un [...]