Asia

Moon Jae-in's administration and the ruling Democratic Party of Korea face a new political threat after it was revealed that a group of activists accused of spying for the DPRK had repeatedly contacted Moon and the party even before he was elected president. The conservative bloc is already calling the incident a "spy scandal," demanding an explanation from the government...

Since 2010, the Pentagon has covertly mapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan worth more than three trillion US dollars. Those resources were, until short hours ago, largely inaccessible. That is no longer the case. The Taliban (banned in Russia had, over the past decade, written letter after letter to American diplomats and congressional leaders, offering to end the war but hand...

Ibrahim Raisi, winner of the presidential election in the Islamic Republic of Iran this year, with his team, expects to increase cooperation with the People's Republic of China (PRC in the next few years. The Iranian leadership has long been attaching great importance to its dialogue with China and has done everything in its power to strengthen diplomatic relations between the two states...