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UN calls on Madagascar to avoid unnecessary force against protesters
Oct 10, 2025 (AFP)
Several thousand anti-government demonstrators marched in Antananarivo Thursday in the latest demonstration in two weeks of anti-government unrest sparked by an...
Maria Corina Machado: the face and fire of Venezuela's opposition
Oct 10, 2025 (AFP)
Hailed as "la libertadora", in an allusion to Venezuelan independence hero Simon "The Liberator" Bolivar, Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday fo...
Tech billionaire Thiel says Greta Thunberg servant of 'Antichrist'
Oct 10, 2025 (AFP)
The eight hours of lectures fused religious beliefs with warnings against technology regulation, according to recordings reviewed by The Washington Post. In fou...
Ecuador deploys 3,000 soldiers amid Indigenous protests
Oct 10, 2025 (AFP)
The move also comes two days after the motorcade of right-wing President Daniel Noboa was pelted with stones by a group of about 500 people protesting rising fu...
Canal Istanbul stirs fear and uncertainty in nearby villages
Oct 08, 2025 (AFP)
Demirkaya, who sells fruit and vegetables at a local market, fears the controversial government-backed project will threaten his small plot of land, erasing the...
N.Macedonia politicians talk rubbish to woo voters
Oct 08, 2025 (AFP)
First, there were toxic dump fires that burned for weeks around North Macedonia's capital. Then, dumpsters started overflowing after a sudden collapse in the ci...
Bangladesh court issues arrest warrants for senior officers
Oct 08, 2025 (AFP)
An inquiry commission has verified more than 250 cases of disappearances, allegedly carried out by the security forces, spanning the 15 years that Hasina's Awam...
On Trump's orders, 200 troops from Texas arrive in Illinois
Oct 08, 2025 (AFP)
US President Donald Trump has already sent troops onto the streets of Los Angeles and Washington and has ordered them to Memphis, as well as Chicago and Portlan...
China exiles in Thailand lose hope, fearing Beijing's long reach
Oct 07, 2025 (AFP)
Zhou's China Democracy Party, an exile group, organised a commemoration on June 4 in Kanchanaburi, west of Bangkok, for the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square...
Lecornu: France's 27-day PM who fell on sword
Oct 06, 2025 (AFP)
His resignation after just 27 days left Lecornu with the unwanted record of the shortest time in office of any prime minister since France's Fifth Republic was ...
Conservative Takaichi set to be Japan's first woman PM
Oct 04, 2025 (AFP)
The 64-year-old, whose hero is Margaret Thatcher, said that a "mountain of work" lay ahead to restore the fortunes of her ailing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)....
Report: Pete Hegseth weighed sending elite military to Portland, Ore.
Oct 04, 2025 (UPI)
Deputy Homeland Security Investigations Adviser Anthony Salisbury exchanged messages in a "crowded, public space" that indicated he was considering sending the ...
Trump tells military leaders that U.S. cities could be used as 'training grounds'
Sep 30, 2025 (UPI)
Trump, after lamenting that the room was so quiet when he walked in, told the meeting of top military leaders, "If you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave...
Trump says US cities should be military 'training grounds'
Sep 30, 2025 (AFP)
In a dark speech before hundreds of generals and admirals summoned from around the world, the Republican told them to prepare for a greater role in crackdowns o...
Moldova backs EU in elections marred by Russian interference
Sep 29, 2025 (UPI)
The Sunday contest is also being seen as a win for Moldova's bid to join the European Union, which it has sought since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, fearing it ...
Moldova election may shift ties toward EU or Russia, prompting bomb threats
Sep 28, 2025 (UPI)
In the election Sunday, all 101 seats in the country's parliament are up for grabs. Though the ruling Action and Solidarity party is expected to remain the larg...
Quake-hit Myanmar city becomes epicentre of junta election offensive
Sep 26, 2025 (AFP)
"We feel more freedom here," said one among them, all widows of dead soldiers. She was evacuated from her hometown, which was "ruined by war", to the improbable...
Lithuania appoints pro-Ukraine government
Sep 25, 2025 (AFP)
Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene was sworn in with a comfortable majority of 80 out of 122 votes in favour of her new government. The government programme intends ...
Pentagon bans reporters from accessing unauthorized info
Sep 20, 2025 (UPI)
The new policy enables Pentagon officials to revoke the credentials for any press staff that they might deem a security threat, according to The Washington Post...
Trump signs memorandum to deploy U.S. National Guard troops to Memphis
Sep 16, 2025 (UPI)
The move comes one month after the president sent the National Guard into Washington, D.C. "Today, at the request of Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee, who's standing ...
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