With Nicolás Maduro suddenly deposed, this should be María Corina Machado’s moment. But Venezuela’s main opposition leader, out of public view abroad, faces difficult choices after the US seized ...

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Margaret Thatcher’s tenure as prime minister of the United Kingdom ended 35 years ago this month. In her final week in office, during a debate in Parliament on inequality, she raised one hand high and ...

Barely a month in office, Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi finds herself in a bitter standoff with China. The cause is Taiwan, a self-governing island that China calls a renegade province, to be ...

Miriam Feirberg-Ikar, who served as mayor of Netanya since 1998, died on Friday after a years-long battle with a serious illness, according to an announcement from the coastal city. “We are shocked ...

She admirably pledges to defend Taiwan if it faces invasion You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Japan’s first female prime minister Sanae ...

Indira Gandhi’s birth anniversary is celebrated on 19 November. This year, it’s the 108th birthday for the former prime minister. Here are 10 little-known facts about the Iron Lady of India. Indira ...

Sanae Takaichi has not backed down on suggestion of military action if Beijing attacks Taiwan Allegra Mendelson is The Telegraph's Asia Correspondent based in Taiwan. She focuses on cross-Strait ...

For nearly two decades, Sheikh Hasina's name moved with the pulse of Bangladesh, sometimes steady, sometimes storm-tossed. To her supporters, she is the architect of a modern, developing Bangladesh; ...

Now, in exile in India, Hasina, often dubbed the 'Iron Lady' of Bangladesh, watches from across the border as the nation she helped build, and often ruled with a firm hand, grapples with the legacy ...

Tokyo | This time last month, the toughest job ahead for Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s newly minted prime minister, was repairing damage to the US relationship by wooing Donald Trump. This she did with ...