Xi Jinping and China’s ruling Communist Party have displayed a dogged obsession with controlling the historical narrative. But there’s a group of underground historians fighting back.

A powerful bomb exploded near a mosque at a rally celebrating the birthday of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in Pakistan, killing at least 52 people and injuring dozens more, officials said.

The president says he doesn’t want trouble, but says Manila will staunchly defend its waters after its coast guard removed a floating barrier China placed at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.

A 75-year-old Japanese feminist scholar who’s not married and does not have children is an unlikely celebrity on China’s tightly censored internet.

The swift fall of the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani troops and exodus of much of its population has stunned the large Armenian diaspora around the world.