Bloomberg Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad faced his biggest rally since taking power in May, as opposition parties led thousands of ethnic Malays in Kuala Lumpur to protest a United Nations convention against racial discrimination. The capital was flooded with protesters dressed in white, who were bused in from around the country to assemble. Police estimate about 55,000 people had ...

Bloomberg A Tanzanian opposition leader has criticised proposed amendments to the country’s Political Parties Act, warning it could destroy democracy in the East African nation. The bill, which was introduced to lawmakers in November, will enable the Registrar of Political Parties to halt government grants to parties for up to six months and the authority to deregister them and supervise ...

Bloomberg More than three months after Secretary of State Michael Pompeo picked Stephen Biegun to lead negotiations with North Korea, the former Ford Motor Co. executive has barely met officials from Pyongyang face-to-face. The standstill is a sign of how negotiations between the US and North Korea have faltered, forcing a lowering of expectations, since President Donald Trump met with ...