A 57-year-old bureaucrat replaced Raul Castro as the president of Cuba on Thursday, launching a new political era as a government led by a single family for six decades tries to ensure the long-term survival of one of the world’s last communist states.
Read moreA court in northern Vietnam sentenced a dissident to 13 years in prison on Tuesday after finding him guilty of attempting to overthrow the government. He was the seventh activist to be jailed in the past week as Communist authorities step up a crackdown on dissent.
Read morePoland’s president vetoed a bill Friday that would have made it possible for authorities to strip communist-era officers of their ranks.
Read moreCuba on Sunday took the final political step before a promised transition from the founders of the Communist state to a younger generation of officials.
Read moreMercedes-Benz issued an apology in China on Tuesday for quoting the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader who is reviled by Beijing, on social media abroad in a reflection of foreign companies’ heightened sensitivity to the Communist government’s possible reaction to their global activities.
Read moreDespite misgivings at a hearing last month, a Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday declined to revive malicious prosecution claims brought by former Hmong rebels who had been suspected by U.S. authorities of plotting to overthrow the communist government of Laos.
Read moreA lawsuit claiming the United States maliciously prosecuted former Hmong rebels suspected of plotting to overthrow the communist government of Laos may have been unfairly dismissed, a Ninth Circuit panel suggested Tuesday.
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Americans seeking to visit Cuba must navigate a complicated maze of travel, commerce and financial restrictions unveiled Wednesday by the Trump administration, part of a new policy to further isolate the island’s communist government.
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Unlike the grand celebrations of the Soviet past, the Kremlin skirted Tuesday’s centennial of the Bolshevik Revolution — an anniversary that drew only a routine demonstration by Communist devotees.
Read moreChina’s ruling Communist Party on Wednesday elevated five new officials to assist President Xi Jinping as he embarks on a second five-year term, and by stopping short of designating an obvious successor strengthened his position as the country’s most powerful leader in decades.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday urged a reinvigorated Communist Party to take a stronger role in society and economic development to better address the nation’s “grim” challenges as he opened a twice-a-decade national congress.
Read moreInvestor George Soros hit back Thursday against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over the leader’s attempts to shut down a Budapest university which Soros founded after the fall of communism.
Read moreCroatia’s conservative government has formed a council to deal with the country’s pro-Nazi and Communist regimes during the 20th century, in a bid to overcome the deep divisions that still exist over the nation’s past.
Read moreA research foundation dedicated to unearthing information about political assassinations sued the Central Intelligence Agency for not providing documents related to plots to assassinate Adolph Hitler and Fidel Castro.
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Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half century rule of Cuba, has died at age 90.
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