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Federal judge orders Trump administration to rescind 'illegal' layoff memo
Feb 27, 2025 (UPI)
The American Federation of Government Employees filed suit on behalf of potentially hundreds of thousands of people who faced immediate termination. Judge Willi...
Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker jailed over 2019 mob attack
Feb 27, 2025 (AFP)
On July 21, 2019, a gang of more than a hundred men dressed in white shirts and carrying sticks stormed the Yuen Long railway station and pounced on commuters a...
'Process is the punishment': The rise of SLAPP suits in the US
Feb 25, 2025 (AFP)
They've all been labeled SLAPPs -- Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation -- legal actions intended to silence critics and suppress free speech by drag...
European leaders, Trudeau gather in Kyiv as Putin-Trump relationship changes eveything
Feb 24, 2025 (UPI)
Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal announced on X that leaders of the so-called Nordic-Baltic Eight -- Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway,...
Hong Kong's oldest pro-democracy party prepares to shut down
Feb 20, 2025 (AFP)
"We are going to proceed and study on the process and procedure that is needed for the disbanding," said Lo Kin-hei, chairman of Hong Kong's Democratic Party. L...
Hong Kong to tighten union rules to 'protect national security'
Feb 19, 2025 (AFP)
Unions in Hong Kong have faced heightened scrutiny since Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on the city in 2020, following huge and often violent ...
Colombian president alleges plot to down his plane with missiles
Feb 18, 2025 (AFP)
"They want to shoot a missile at my plane... not one, but two missiles. We know who they are," the South American country's first-ever leftist president told a ...
Hundreds mourn Hong Kong champion of prisoners' rights
Feb 15, 2025 (AFP)
Shiu Ka-chun, a social worker who represented his profession in Hong Kong's legislature, died last month aged 55 after earlier revealing he was diagnosed with s...
AP barred from Air Force One in 'Gulf of America' row
Feb 14, 2025 (AFP)
"The Associated Press continues to ignore the lawful geographic name change of the Gulf of America," White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich said in a...
'Dad, are you a traitor?': Orban rival faces smear campaigns
Feb 12, 2025 (AFP)
"My youngest son once asked me half-jokingly, 'Dad, are you really a traitor?' Because this was broadcast on the so-called public media. It was partly a joke, b...
Indian PM's party celebrates landslide New Delhi win
Feb 08, 2025 (AFP)
"Development has won, good governance has won," Modi said after the city's ex-leader -- a key opposition figurehead to the premier -- was confirmed as having lo...
Inspired by 'Trump-tornado', Hungary vows NGO crackdown
Feb 07, 2025 (AFP)
Orban, one of Trump's closest allies in the European Union, praised the president's move to hobble his government's humanitarian agency USAID, describing it as ...
What Elon Musk's Twitter tactics may bode for US government
Feb 04, 2025 (AFP)
Musk, the world's richest person, is leading President Donald Trump's federal cost-cutting efforts under the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE...
Seeking light in dark times four years after Myanmar coup
Feb 02, 2025 (AFP)
"I need power supply to use in night, to use computer for my business and to use for internet connection," the 64-year-old told AFP at the country's biggest ann...
Turkey army expels officers for Ataturk pledge of allegiance
Jan 31, 2025 (AFP)
During a swearing-in ceremony for new officers in August, the five held their swords to the sky, saying: "We are the soldiers of Mustafa Kemal" and vowed to def...
Britain, Canada respond to Belarus' 'sham' presidential election with sanctions
Jan 28, 2025 (UPI)
Lukashenko, often referred to as "Europe's last dictator," was named winner of Sunday's presidential election, with preliminary results showing he secured nearl...
Canada slow to respond to foreign interference: inquiry
Jan 28, 2025 (AFP)
Ottawa "took too long to act, and coordination was not always optimal" to counter threats, commissioner Marie-Josee Hogue told a news conference. But overall Ca...
Tractors, forests, nuclear weapons: Five things about Belarus
Jan 26, 2025 (AFP)
Here are five things to know about the authoritarian former Soviet republic, a Kremlin ally with a population of nine million people. - Kremlin subject - Lukash...
UK aims to quicken civil service with AI 'Humphrey'
Jan 21, 2025 (AFP)
On Tuesday, the UK government announced that artificial intelligence technology would be rolled out to speed up the work of mandarins -- and they are cheekily c...
Trump inauguration moved indoors due to extreme cold
Jan 17, 2025 (AFP)
"There is an Arctic blast sweeping the Country," Trump wrote on his Truth Social feed on Friday. "Therefore, I have ordered the Inauguration Address, in additio...
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