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'Pandora's box': alarm bells in Indonesia over rising military role
Apr 20, 2025 (AFP)
Last month, Indonesia's parliament amended a law allowing active-duty military personnel to work in 14 state institutions -- up from 10 -- including the attorne...
Amnesty opens Hong Kong office in exile;
Apr 15, 2025 (AFP)
Beijing has remoulded Hong Kong in its authoritarian image after huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests in 2019, imposing a security law that crimina...
End of the line for Hong Kong's Democratic Party
Apr 12, 2025 (AFP)
Lau is the former chair of the Democratic Party, once the city's stalwart opposition force but now seatless and preparing to dissolve as some of its veterans la...
Trump tells US to 'be cool' as China, EU strike back
Apr 09, 2025 (AFP)
Trump dug in after superpower rival Beijing slapped massive 84 percent levies on US goods, just hours after his latest salvo of tariffs took effect on dozens of...
Protest as quake-hit Myanmar junta chief joins Bangkok summit
Apr 04, 2025 (AFP)
More than 3,000 people are confirmed dead after the 7.7-magnitude quake, and the United Nations estimates that up to three million may have been affected in som...
US lawmakers seek to rename street for Hong Kong's jailed Jimmy Lai
Apr 02, 2025 (AFP)
A bill introduced in the House of Representatives would erect the street sign "Jimmy Lai Way" on a stretch alongside the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in ...
Five takeaways from Marine Le Pen verdict
Apr 01, 2025 (AFP)
Here are five takeaways from the verdict, which appears set to mark a turning point in modern French political history: - Far right defiant - The verdict, as it...
France's Le Pen defiant after five year election ban
Mar 31, 2025 (AFP)
The verdict as part of a conviction for creating fake jobs at the EU parliament on behalf of her National Rally (RN) party -- charges she vehemently denied -- s...
Jeffrey Goldberg, journalist in 'Signalgate' chat scandal -- and Trumpworld target
Mar 27, 2025 (AFP)
Republican Senator Roger Wicker, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and ranking Democrat Jack Reed wrote to a Pentagon watchdog asking it to "...
Trump administration's ideological war with Europe
Mar 26, 2025 (AFP)
Here's a look at the key issues where the United States has shifted gears, including tariffs, support for Ukraine and urging Europe to take greater control of i...
Australia unveils tax cuts in pre-election budget
Mar 25, 2025 (AFP)
The Labor government -- due to announce the election date by the end of the week -- booked a spending deficit of US$17 billion as it unveiled a swag of surprise...
Greenpeace $660mn damages ruling shocks global NGOs
Mar 20, 2025 (AFP)
Environmental defenders rallied behind Greenpeace after the shock ruling by a North Dakota jury fuelled concerns that courtrooms were increasingly being used to...
China calls outlets facing Trump axe 'notorious' as Beijing, Moscow seek to fill the news void
Mar 18, 2025 (AFP)
Trump signed an order last week freezing Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Asia (RFA), Radio Free Europe and other outlets as part of his sweeping cuts to fede...
Council of Europe wants rights central to Ukraine peace talks
Mar 12, 2025 (AFP)
The Strasbourg-based Council, which monitors human rights and democracy on the continent, said rights had been "sidelined" in the recent geopolitical shifts and...
Hong Kong pro-democracy social worker convicted over 2019 clash
Mar 11, 2025 (AFP)
Following a massive protest movement in 2019, Hong Kong authorities launched a crackdown on dissent and have taken nearly 3,000 people to court over the span of...
Trump's anti-diversity and immigration stance overshadows SXSW festival
Mar 11, 2025 (AFP)
Since taking office, Donald Trump's hard-right White House has delivered a series of executive orders demanding that agencies across the federal government remo...
Bangladesh denies UN pressure in PM's ouster last year
Mar 10, 2025 (AFP)
A student-led uprising ended Hasina's 15-year tenure last August, with soldiers failing to intervene as thousands marched on her palace and forced her into exil...
Hong Kong mogul Jimmy Lai wraps up trial testimony; Son asks to meet UK PM
Mar 07, 2025 (AFP)
Sebastien Lai said a fresh diplomatic push was now needed to free the 77-year-old pro-democracy activist, who holds British citizenship and has been kept behind...
Hong Kong top court quashes conviction of Tiananmen vigil activists
Mar 06, 2025 (AFP)
The judgment is a stinging rebuke to the government, which has targeted dissent using expansive powers under a national security law imposed by Beijing after Ho...
UN rights chief alarmed by 'fundamental shift' in US direction
Mar 03, 2025 (AFP)
Addressing the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Volker Turk voiced the UN's strongest rebuke to date of the dramatic about-face in the United Stat...
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