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Israel military reservists threaten over judicial revamp
Jul 22, 2023 (AFP)
The judicial revamp has split the nation and sparked one of the biggest protest movements in Israel's history, with weekly demonstrations often drawing tens of ...
Hong Kong questions families of wanted activists: police source
Jul 20, 2023 (AFP)
The city's national security department "took in two men and two women from various districts in Hong Kong and Kowloon for investigation," a police source told ...
President calls Alabama senator's block on military promotions 'irresponsible'
Jul 13, 2023 (UPI)
Since March, Tuberville has held up more than 250 military promotions to protest the Pentagon's policy to reimburse expenses for service members who travel to o...
Biden meets Belarus opposition leader, ASEAN wants Myanmar solution, HK questions activist's family
Jul 12, 2023 (AFP)
Myanmar has been ravaged by deadly violence since a military coup ousted Suu Kyi's government more than two years ago, unleashing a bloody crackdown on dissent....
Hong Kong questions family of wanted activist Nathan Law: police source
Jul 11, 2023 (AFP)
Police officers from the national security department brought in Law's parents and elder brother without formally arresting them, a police source confirmed to A...
Myanmar crisis tops agenda at divided ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting
Jul 11, 2023 (AFP)
The two-day Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting will be followed by talks later in the week with Beijing, Washington and other powers where top US di...
Hong Kong cuts elected council seats to exclude 'anti-China' forces
Jul 06, 2023 (AFP)
Beijing has cracked down on dissent in the finance hub since massive democracy protests four years ago, and has mandated that only "patriots" can hold public of...
'Adversaries, not enemies': Greek PM warns far-right MPs
Jul 06, 2023 (AFP)
"This may be a multi-party parliament, but it must not turn into a turbulent one. The time of extremes and vulgarity is in the past," Mitsotakis said in an appa...
Wanted activists should surrender or 'spend days in fear': Hong Kong leader
Jul 04, 2023 (AFP)
Police on Monday offered rewards of HK$1 million ($128,000) each for information leading to the arrests of eight prominent democracy activists based abroad, acc...
Australia to support activists threatened by Hong Kong
Jul 04, 2023 (AFP)
Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Australia would steadfastly support freedom of expression and the right of people to express political views peacefully. "Peopl...
Hundreds arrested on fifth night of France unrest after teen laid to rest
Jul 02, 2023 (AFP)
A total of 486 people had been arrested across France as of 3:00 am (0100 GMT) Sunday, the interior ministry said, though the level of violence appeared to have...
Hong Kong leader warns of 'resistance' on handover anniversary
Jul 01, 2023 (AFP)
Britain ceded the long-time colony to China in 1997 under a 50-year governance model known as "one country, two systems", which guaranteed key freedoms and a me...
Under-fire UK minister quits and slams Sunak
Jun 30, 2023 (AFP)
Zac Goldsmith, who was appointed to the House of Lords in 2019 by Johnson, said he was quitting as international environment minister and assailed Prime Ministe...
Myanmar air strikes kill 10 civilians: locals, media reports
Jun 28, 2023 (AFP)
Fighting has ravaged swathes of Myanmar since a coup in 2021, with the junta battling ethnic rebels and dozens of new "People's Defence Forces" across the count...
Recording: Donald Trump says he didn't declassify 'highly confidential' documents
Jun 27, 2023 (UPI)
The 2-minute recording of Trump, taken in July 2021 and obtained by CNN, The New York Times and CBS News, is from the same meeting in which a recording emerged ...
Putin tells troops in Kremlin they 'de facto stopped civil war'
Jun 27, 2023 (AFP)
It was the latest in a series of addresses Putin has made after the rebellion, the most serious security threat in his more than two-decade rule. "You de facto ...
EU sanctions 7 Iranians over human rights abuses committed against protesters
Jun 27, 2023 (UPI)
The government of Iran's spiritual leader, Ali Khamenei, has met protests that erupted in September with a bloody crackdown that has resulted in hundreds killed...
Mitsotakis back as Greek premier after election landslide
Jun 26, 2023 (AFP)
Crediting Mitsotakis and his New Democracy party for bringing economic stability to the former EU debt laggard, voters gave on Sunday the conservatives their wi...
UK should make Hong Kong release of Jimmy Lai 'priority': son
Jun 23, 2023 (AFP)
Jimmy Lai, a 75-year-old British citizen and founder of the now-shuttered tabloid Apple Daily, is awaiting trial for alleged "collusion with foreign forces" -- ...
Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg dead at 92
Jun 16, 2023 (AFP)
Ellsberg was a military analyst when he released thousands of documents to US media in 1971 that revealed successive United States administrations had lied to t...
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