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Hong Kong seeks court ban on democracy protest song
Jun 06, 2023 (AFP)
The government has sought an injunction order, which, if granted, would make "Glory to Hong Kong" the first song to be banned in the city since the former Briti...
US says Navalny supporter arrests show Putin's 'paranoid
Jun 04, 2023 (UPI)
OVD-Info, an independent human rights group based in Russia, provided live updates Sunday as police made arrests of Navalny supporters across the country. Naval...
YouTube scraps 2020 US election misinformation policy
Jun 03, 2023 (AFP)
The announcement by the Google-owned video website is a marked departure from its policy initiated in December 2020, which attempted to curb false claims -- mos...
Anti-Erdogan protest greenlit in Sweden despite Ankara warning
Jun 02, 2023 (AFP)
"We are going to ensure that all those present on Sunday are able to exercise their rights protected by the constitution", including freedom of expression, Stoc...
Spanish right surges in local polls, dealing blow to PM
May 29, 2023 (AFP)
"We have won a clear victory and Spain has taken the first steps toward a new political era," said the jubilant opposition leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo, head of ...
World leaders congratulate Turkey's victorious Erdogan
May 29, 2023 (AFP)
- Biden: 'global challenges' - US President Biden said he hoped to work with Erdogan on "shared global challenges". "I look forward to continuing to work togeth...
Thirteen in court over 2019 storming of Hong Kong legislature
May 29, 2023 (AFP)
It was the most violent episode in the initial phase of huge democracy protests that shook Hong Kong that year, with millions marching and staging sit-ins for w...
Hong Kong's prominent pro-democracy party to disband
May 27, 2023 (AFP)
Nicknamed "the barristers' party", it was founded in 2006 by professional elites -- mostly from the legal sector -- who wanted to promote democratisation and ci...
Brazil's Indigenous peoples ministry could see key powers curbed
May 25, 2023 (AFP)
The first-ever Ministry of Indigenous Peoples was created by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva when he took office in January, and was given the power to dema...
Turkey quake victims rally around Erdogan ahead of runoff
May 25, 2023 (AFP)
Millions across the ravaged region defied expectation and voted for the man who has ruled Turkey for two decades and fell just short of securing another five-ye...
Musk's glitchy DeSantis show highlights doubts over right-wing pivot
May 25, 2023 (AFP)
Just a few hundred thousand people tuned in for the audio-only livestream with DeSantis, but even with that relatively small audience for a virtual online assem...
Canada probe into China election meddling ruled out
May 23, 2023 (AFP)
David Johnston -- who was tasked with the investigation after recent media reports of Chinese interference in the 2019 and 2021 ballots, including secret campai...
Iraqi, Syrian Kurds divided over Erdogan's election battle
May 21, 2023 (AFP)
The long-running and deadly conflict between Ankara and militant groups from the ethnic Kurdish minority has spilled across the borders of both Iraq and Syria. ...
Hong Kong court rejects Jimmy Lai challenge to national security body
May 19, 2023 (AFP)
Lai, founder of the now-shuttered tabloid Apple Daily, is awaiting trial for alleged "collusion with foreign forces" -- an offence under a security law Beijing ...
'Sign of the times': Thai election a referendum on the army
May 16, 2023 (AFP)
The campaign pitted opposition parties Pheu Thai and Move Forward Party (MFP) and their promises of democracy and reform against the ageing generals leading the...
China jails US citizen for life on espionage charges
May 15, 2023 (AFP)
John Shing-wan Leung, an American passport holder and Hong Kong permanent resident, "was found guilty of espionage, sentenced to life imprisonment, deprived of ...
Hong Kong bans foreign lawyers from national security cases
May 10, 2023 (AFP)
The amendment is the latest change to the financial hub's legal and political landscape as China works to snuff out dissent in Hong Kong following huge and at t...
Myanmar to dominate ASEAN summit as violence escalates
May 09, 2023 (AFP)
Myanmar has been ravaged by deadly violence since a military coup deposed Aung San Suu Kyi's government more than two years ago and unleashed a bloody crackdown...
Hong Kongers find new ways to defend democratic ideals
May 09, 2023 (AFP)
Hong Kongers like Lau, 27, are still grappling with the aftermath of huge, and often violent, protests that roiled the Chinese finance hub in 2019, and a subseq...
US, UK back 'rule of law' in Pakistan after ex-PM arrested
May 09, 2023 (AFP)
"We just want to make sure that whatever happens in Pakistan is consistent with the rule of law, with the constitution," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to...
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