Former Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, a moderate who extended the country’s political freedoms but was ...

He faced criticism inside and outside his party for generally lackluster and ineffectual leadership over six years.

Although Donald Trump has paused some tariffs, China was the outlier, as he has kept in place 145 tariffs on the world’s second-largest economy.

Former Malaysian prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has died aged 85, medics said.The Institut Jantung Negara, the hospital ...