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Lebanon postpones parliamentary elections by two years
Mar 09, 2026 (AFP)
Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war last week when Hezbollah attacked Israel in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...
Nepal's rapper-led centrist party heads for poll landslide
Mar 08, 2026 (AFP)
The 35-year-old's Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) was also leading in the proportional representation vote, according to results declared and election commission...
Protests across globe mark one week of Iran war
Mar 07, 2026 (AFP)
Europe, Africa and the Americas saw demonstrations, with some protesting against Iran's Islamic regime, others railing against the war, and some in support of I...
Turkey warns over 'dangerous' bid to stir civil war in Iran
Mar 07, 2026 (AFP)
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said any effort to stir up a civil war inside Iran in a bid to bring about regime change would be a "historic" mistake. "We are aga...
Hong Kong mogul Jimmy Lai won't appeal national security conviction: lawyer
Mar 06, 2026 (AFP)
The 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper was found guilty in December on charges of foreign collusion and seditious publication. His sen...
US Senate rejects bid to curb Trump's Iran war powers
Mar 04, 2026 (AFP)
The bipartisan measure, introduced by Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Rand Paul, would have required the withdrawal of US forces from hostilities against Iran...
Chinese investigative journalist released on bail: police
Feb 14, 2026 (AFP)
Liu Hu became widely known more than 10 years ago for his reports on graft among high-profile figures in the Chinese Communist Party and government. Police in t...
Bangladesh nationalists celebrate landslide win, Islamists cry foul
Feb 13, 2026 (AFP)
Election Commission figures said the BNP alliance had won 212 seats, compared with 77 for the Islamist-led Jamaat-e-Islami alliance -- which said Friday there h...
US judge blocks Pentagon from punishing senator over video
Feb 12, 2026 (AFP)
The preliminary injunction is the latest blow to President Donald Trump's push to target the lawmakers -- whom he at one point accused of "seditious behavior, p...
Hong Kong journalists face 'precarious' future after Jimmy Lai jailed
Feb 11, 2026 (AFP)
"There will not be another Apple Daily, nobody dares to copy what it did," journalist and former press union chief Ronson Chan said of Lai's defunct tabloid, wh...
French court to rule on July 7 in Marine Le Pen graft appeal trial
Feb 11, 2026 (AFP)
A lower court last year handed the veteran 57-year-old politician a five-year ban from public office over a fake jobs scam at the European Parliament, dashing h...
China rejects global rebukes of Jimmy Lai sentence
Feb 10, 2026 (AFP)
Countries including the United States, Britain and Australia have spoken out against Monday's sentence, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling it "unjus...
Hong Kong sentences pro-democracy mogul Jimmy Lai to 20 years in jail
Feb 09, 2026 (AFP)
Lai, a British citizen and founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, was found guilty in December of collusion with foreign countries by urging them to ...
Centre-left candidate Seguro beats far-right to Portugal's presidency
Feb 09, 2026 (AFP)
The result was quickly welcomed by European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen and French President Emmanuel Macron. With more than 99 percent of the ballots coun...
Jimmy Lai's son says Trump can tell Xi jailing mogul is a 'mistake'
Feb 09, 2026 (AFP)
"The president interceding in my father's case will show Xi Jinping how much of a mistake it is, the persecution of my father," Sebastien Lai told AFP in London...
Pentagon to cut academic ties with Harvard: statement
Feb 07, 2026 (AFP)
The move is the latest in the Trump administration's battle with Harvard over claims that the Ivy League institution promotes "woke" ideology. "For too long, th...
Hong Kong to sentence media mogul Jimmy Lai on Monday
Feb 06, 2026 (AFP)
The 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper was found guilty in December of foreign collusion under the city's sweeping national security l...
Iraq parliament delays presidential vote again; Right-wing candidate set for Costa Rica election landslide
Feb 01, 2026 (AFP)
It was the second time parliament has delayed the presidential vote, which had first been due last week. An AFP correspondent in the parliament said the require...
At least 170 civilians killed in Myanmar air strikes during election: UN
Jan 30, 2026 (AFP)
Myanmar's month-long, three-phase vote, which wrapped up on Sunday, was imposed by the military in what democracy watchdogs dismissed as an attempt to rebrand a...
Trump troop deployments in US cities cost nearly $500 mn in 2025
Jan 28, 2026 (AFP)
Trump sent troops onto the streets of Democratic-led cities including Los Angeles and Washington, DC to quell allegedly out-of-control unrest, while court chall...
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