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A Malaysian court is scheduled Wednesday to set a new date for starting the defense phase of the trial for two Southeast Asian women charged with murdering the North Korean leader’s half brother. A High Court judge in August found there was enough evidence to infer that Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, along with four missing North ...

Staring down the potential loss of one-party control in Washington, President Donald Trump declared Tuesday’s election results a “tremendous success” for Republicans as his party maintained its hold on the Senate while Democrats picked up GOP-held seats in the House. Trump waited until late in the night to weigh in on the midterm vote, tweeting a succinct message that overlooked ...

US Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi vowed Tuesday to impose new “checks and balances” on Donald Trump’s administration — but also signaled it would not be all-out war with Republicans after her party seized the lower house of Congress. “Today is more than about Democrats and Republicans. It’s about restoring the constitution’s checks and balances to the Trump administration,” Pelosi told ...

An Afghan official says the Taliban have killed eight police and wounded three others in new attacks on security posts in western Farah province. An insurgent attack on an Afghan border base in Pusht Koh in Farah on Monday killed 20 troops while 20 others were abducted.   A member of the provincial council, Dadullah Qani, says the latest attack ...

Greg Pence, the older brother of US Vice President Mike Pence, won a seat in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday soon after polls began closing in the midterm elections. The 61-year-old businessman and military veteran claimed victory for the Republicans in the district his younger brother once held in Indiana.   Prior to becoming Donald Trump’s vice president, ...

Millions of Americans voted Tuesday, and results have been projected in several races in the US midterms, the critical first nationwide election seen as a referendum on Donald Trump’s presidency. Here is the state of play so far:   – Democrats take the house –   The House of Representatives has flipped from Republican control into the hands of the ...

The US Democrats have taken control of the House of Representatives, dealing a serious blow to President Donald Trump. But the president’s Republicans have retained control of the US Senate in the mid-term elections.   Republicans held on to the upper chamber with key victories in Indiana, Texas and North Dakota.   Mr Trump is not up for re-election until ...

Saudi King Salman embarked on an unprecedented domestic tour on Tuesday, an official said, as the country grapples with an international crisis over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The 82-year-old monarch arrived in the central province of Qassim, an official close to his entourage told AFP, as he started what Saudi media said was a tour of “several regions” ...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will host their Chinese counterparts Friday in Washington for a round of high-level diplomatic and security talks, the US State Department announced. The second US-China Diplomatic and Security Dialogue will bring Mattis and Pompeo together with senior Communist Party foreign affairs official Yang Jiechi, and with General Wei Fenghe, ...

Myanmar’s ruling party led by Aung San Suu Kyi won just over half the seats in by-elections to fill 13 of the 1,171 seats in national, regional and state parliaments, according to complete preliminary results. Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy took seven of the 13 seats made vacant by death or resignation. Initial results for 12 races showed it ...