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Coal miner's son, thorn in China's side: Taiwan's new president-elect
Jan 14, 2024 (AFP)
The 64-year-old Harvard graduate rode to victory in Saturday's election on the promise that he would defend Taiwan's democracy and resist Beijing's claims on th...
Severe weather freezes Iowa caucus campaigning
Jan 13, 2024 (AFP)
Forecasters warned of "fairly intense blizzard conditions" throughout much of the Midwestern state, as the National Weather Service (NWS) said wind gusts of 50 ...
Biden takes election year gamble with Yemen strikes
Jan 12, 2024 (AFP)
The 81-year-old Democrat will hope the strikes on Huthi rebels project an image of strength at home and abroad, countering criticism of his leadership by Republ...
Taiwan votes in key election under Chinese threats
Jan 12, 2024 (AFP)
Beijing slammed frontrunner Lai Ching-te, the current vice president, as a dangerous "separatist" in the days leading up to the poll, warning voters to make "th...
China's Xi congratulates Bangladesh leader after disputed re-election
Jan 11, 2024 (AFP)
In his message to Hasina, Xi said he hoped the two countries "will work together to... deepen political mutual trust (and) carry forward traditional friendship"...
Three-way race: Taiwan's presidential candidates
Jan 11, 2024 (AFP)
China relations, economic policy and youth incentives are some of the key issues in the contest to succeed President Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive ...
Ecuador declares 'internal armed conflict'; gunmen storm TV station
Jan 10, 2024 (UPI)
The gunmen besieged the TC Television studio during a live broadcast in the coastal city of Guayaquil on Tuesday amid a wave of gang violence that has swept the...
Taiwan poll frontrunner hits out at Beijing 'interference'
Jan 09, 2024 (AFP)
Lai Ching-te, Taiwan's current vice president, said voters should have no illusions about China maintaining peace, but that he would keep the door open for exch...
N. Korean artillery aiming at S. Korean election, experts say
Jan 08, 2024 (AFP)
Pyongyang's military has fired hundreds of artillery shells near two sparsely populated South Korean border islands since Friday, prompting evacuation orders, f...
Bangladesh's Hasina wins re-election after polls without opposition
Jan 08, 2024 (AFP)
Hasina's ruling Awami League "has won the election", an Election Commission spokesman told AFP in the early hours of Monday morning, after a vote that initial r...
Erdogan backs former environment chief to win back
Jan 07, 2024 (AFP)
Murat Kurum will represent Erdogan's Islamic conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP) in March 31 municipal elections in which control of Turkey's main ...
Indonesia's presidential hopefuls face off in debate
Jan 07, 2024 (AFP)
Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto, former Central Java governor Ganjar Pranowo, and former Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan will compete in a February 14 electio...
Foreign govts paid Trump firms millions while president: report
Jan 05, 2024 (AFP)
Officials from Saudi Arabia, India, Turkey and Democratic Republic of Congo were among some 20 countries' representatives who paid money to Trump's hotel and re...
Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai pleads not guilty to national security crimes
Jan 02, 2024 (AFP)
The charges against Lai -- founder of the now-shuttered popular Chinese-language tabloid Apple Daily -- revolve around the newspaper's publications, which suppo...
'Life in danger': Hong Kong independence advocate decries police pressure
Dec 30, 2023 (AFP)
Chung was among the youngest people in Hong Kong to be convicted under a sweeping national security law imposed by Beijing, and had finished serving time six mo...
Triumphs and tests: Brazil's Lula marks one year back in office
Dec 29, 2023 (AFP)
However, new environmental and fiscal challenges are looming for the 78-year-old leader of Latin America's biggest economy. Here are some things you need to kno...
Hong Kong democracy advocate seeks asylum in Britain;
Dec 29, 2023 (AFP)
In 2021, Chung, then 20, became the youngest person to be imprisoned under Hong Kong's national security law -- imposed by Beijing after massive pro-democracy p...
Three Hong Kong students jailed over 'terrorist' bomb plot
Dec 28, 2023 (AFP)
The trio -- now aged between 20 to 23 -- were the last defendants convicted in a series of prosecutions launched more than two years ago against the little-know...
Jailed, unseated, exiled: Hong Kong opposition party shuts its doors
Dec 28, 2023 (AFP)
Founded in 2006, the Civic Party -- nicknamed "the barristers' party" -- was made up of attorneys, academics and other professionals who wanted to promote democ...
Pro-Iran parties win big in Iraq provincial vote: results
Dec 28, 2023 (AFP)
The vote was the first held in a decade and took place amid widespread political apathy in the oil-rich country, which is recovering from years of conflict and ...
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