Asia

The Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un of North Korea broke all peace pacts with South Korea and started a new nuclear weapons plan, inflaming tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

Joko Widodo won Indonesia’s presidential election, becoming the first president to not be from the country’s political elite or military.

Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi was released from her house arrest after being incarcerated since 1989.

After Houthi forces seized the presidential palace, Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi resigned after months of unrest.

India and Bangladesh officially ratified their 1974 agreement to exchange enclaves along their border.

Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990, died.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye is impeached by the Constitutional Court of Korea in a unanimous decision, terminating Park’s presidency. South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn assumes power following the ruling.

Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev fled Bishkek amid fierce anti-government riots as the opposition seized control.

Park Geun-hye was elected President of South Korea, the first woman to hold the position.

A coup d’état is launched against Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government of Turkey, but ultimately fails on 16 July.

Thein Sein was elected President of Myanmar, the first civilian President of the country since 1962.

The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, with Xi Jinping being chosen as the new General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and as the Chairman of the Central Military Commission.