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Pentagon censuring, possibly demoting US senator over 'seditious' video
Jan 05, 2026 (AFP)
"Kelly -- and five other members of Congress -- released a reckless and seditious video that was clearly intended to undermine good order and military disciplin...
Iraq parliament elects new speaker
Dec 29, 2025 (AFP)
Parliament's media office said 309 out of 329 lawmakers took part in the inaugural session, with Haibat al-Halbussi, 45, emerging as the winner from three candi...
'World's first' Green parliamentarian dies aged 75
Dec 28, 2025 (AFP)
Brelaz was elected to the National Council, the lower house of Switzerland's Federal Assembly, in 1979. He died following a heart attack, his son told Switzerla...
Disputed Myanmar election wins China's vote of confidence
Dec 23, 2025 (AFP)
International monitors have dismissed the vote starting Sunday as a charade to rebrand Myanmar's military rule since a 2021 coup, which triggered a civil war. B...
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted of national security charges
Dec 15, 2025 (AFP)
Prosecutors said Lai was the mastermind behind two conspiracies to ask foreign countries to sanction, blockade or take action against Hong Kong or China, and ac...
Trump says has asked Xi to release Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai
Dec 15, 2025 (AFP)
"I feel so badly. I spoke to President Xi about it, and I asked to consider his release," Trump told reporters, without specifying when he asked Xi. "He's an ol...
Daughter warns China not to make Jimmy Lai a 'martyr'
Dec 15, 2025 (AFP)
Lai, 78, was found guilty on all three charges in a national security trial launched after China clamped down on the financial hub to which it had once promised...
Far-right Kast wins Chile election landslide
Dec 15, 2025 (AFP)
Kast won some 58 percent of the vote and held an unassailable lead over Jeannette Jara, a communist who headed a broad leftist coalition. Kast campaigned on a p...
Myanmar junta hits back at criticism of military-run poll
Dec 14, 2025 (AFP)
The junta snatched power in a 2021 coup, toppling a civilian government, jailing its leaders and triggering a vicious civil war that has consumed the country. T...
Brazil moves closer to curbing Indigenous land claims in constitution
Dec 10, 2025 (AFP)
Land rights for native peoples have been a point of contention in Brazil for years due to the country's powerful agricultural sector and its allies in the predo...
Venezuela acknowledges death of detained opposition figure
Dec 07, 2025 (AFP)
Leftist President Nicolas Maduro has called for stepped-up military recruitment after the United States deployed a fleet of warships and the world's largest air...
Court allows National Guard deployment in US capital to continue for now
Dec 04, 2025 (AFP)
District Court Judge Jia Cobb ruled last month that President Donald Trump's deployment of thousands of National Guard troops in Washington was unlawful. Cobb o...
New York Times sues Pentagon over restrictive media policy
Dec 04, 2025 (AFP)
US and international news outlets including AFP, AP, Fox News and the Times declined to sign the new policy in mid-October, meaning they were stripped of their ...
Swiss reject compulsory civic duty, climate tax for super-rich
Nov 30, 2025 (AFP)
Final results from across the country's 26 cantons showed voters spurning the initiatives, which had generated significant discussion in the wealthy Alpine nati...
Russia bans Human Rights Watch
Nov 28, 2025 (AFP)
Russia did not give a reason for the decision, and Human Rights Watch, which was forced to shutter its offices in Russia in 2022, did not immediately comment. S...
Bolsonaro behind bars: the fall of Brazil's polarizing firebrand
Nov 25, 2025 (AFP)
This trademark defiance crumbled as the man who rose from fringe firebrand to president and reshaped Brazilian politics began serving a 27-year sentence for a f...
Pentagon targets ex-astronaut Democratic senator over illegal orders appeal
Nov 24, 2025 (AFP)
The Pentagon's probe marks an extraordinary escalation in the Trump administration's backlash against six Democrats with military or intelligence service backgr...
Brazil's Bolsonaro detained for trying to break ankle bracelet and flee
Nov 23, 2025 (AFP)
The court said the far-right firebrand -- who was sentenced to 27 years in prison over a scheme to stop leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking office aft...
Hong Kong charges 4 over election boycott posts; Trump floats death penalty for 'seditious' Democrats
Nov 20, 2025 (AFP)
Beijing revamped Hong Kong's electoral system in 2021 to ensure that only "patriots" could hold office, and the December 7 poll will select a second batch of la...
Iraq: key gains after the general election
Nov 17, 2025 (AFP)
Without securing an absolute majority in the 329-seat chamber, the Coordination Framework alliance of Shiite factions with varying links to Iran announced it wa...
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