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Trash, mulch and security: All jobs for troops in Washington
Sep 15, 2025 (AFP)
Now such unorthodox assignments may soon be replicated elsewhere, with President Donald Trump on Monday signing an order sending troops to Memphis, Tennessee. T...
100 days later, US federal workers navigate post-Musk wreckage
Sep 15, 2025 (AFP)
The consequences of this unprecedented assault on the federal bureaucracy are expected to reverberate for years. From his modest office in the executive buildin...
Macau's first 'patriots' election sees low turnout
Sep 14, 2025 (AFP)
The Chinese casino hub -- with a population just shy of 700,000 -- amended its election laws in 2024, giving national security officials the final say on candid...
New Nepal PM vows to follow protesters' demands to 'end corruption'
Sep 14, 2025 (AFP)
Sushila Karki, the 73-year-old former chief justice, has been tasked with restoring order and addressing protesters' demands for a corruption-free future ahead ...
Brazil's Bolsonaro: US-backed firebrand facing future behind bars
Sep 11, 2025 (AFP)
Now he faces nearly three decades in prison for what prosecutors described as his most egregious act of defiance yet: plotting to cling on to power after losing...
Macron names defence minister Lecornu new PM: presidency
Sep 09, 2025 (AFP)
Macron has told Lecornu "to consult the political forces represented in parliament with a view to adopting a budget for the nation and making the agreements ess...
Killing Hong Kong's Lai would strengthen democracy message, son says
Sep 09, 2025 (AFP)
On a visit to Washington, Sebastien Lai was meeting US officials and lawmakers as he appealed for greater international pressure on China and Hong Kong's pro-Be...
Baghdad clashes kill six, including four police: ministry; Two killed after bridge collapses in Iraq: rescuers
Sep 07, 2025 (AFP)
Iraqi security officials, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said that the clashes late Saturday erupted over increased fees for a private power generat...
Trump amps up crackdown rhetoric with Chicago 'war' threat
Sep 06, 2025 (AFP)
The move seeks to replicate an operation in the US capital Washington, where he has deployed National Guard troops and surged federal agents to conduct arrests ...
Trump suggests troop deployment in New Orleans
Sep 03, 2025 (UPI)
The potential deployment could mirror what the president has done in Washington and said he will do soon in Chicago. "We are making the determination now: Do we...
Rights group says 20 missing after deadly Indonesia protests
Sep 02, 2025 (AFP)
At least six people have been killed since protests rocked Southeast Asia's biggest economy last week, intensified by footage spreading of the killing of a youn...
Trump vows to send troops to Chicago 'hellhole' but doesn't say when
Sep 02, 2025 (UPI)
Media had gathered for the president's announcement regarding moving U.S. Space Command headquarters to Alabama, but a reporter asked if the president still int...
UK Greens elect 'eco-populist' as new leader
Sep 02, 2025 (AFP)
Zack Polanski, a former actor, wants to make the Greens as noisy on the left as Nigel Farage's anti-immigrant Reform UK party is on the right as British politic...
Guinea lifts some media restrictions ahead of referendum
Sep 01, 2025 (AFP)
But the regulator suspended Guinee360.com, one of the country's most important private news sites, for three months, citing unspecified "professional incompeten...
Indonesia capital on edge as army appears after deadly protests
Sep 01, 2025 (AFP)
In Glodok, known as Jakarta's Chinatown, Putri Amelia was pouring coffee for the few customers who came to her shop, but closing her doors early to not be caugh...
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai verdict to come 'in good time': judge
Aug 28, 2025 (AFP)
The 77-year-old founder of the now-shut Apple Daily newspaper has been behind bars since late 2020 as his case made its way through the courts, with many Wester...
Residents of hunger-racked Myanmar region say junta air strike kills 12
Aug 26, 2025 (AFP)
A Myanmar junta air strike on a rebel-held town in the country's hunger-ravaged west killed at least 12 people, witnesses of the overnight bombing said on Tuesd...
National Guard to assist immigration law enforcement in 19 states
Aug 23, 2025 (UPI)
The troops will assist with logistical support, transportation, case management and clerical services at facilities that are processing "illegal migrants," the ...
Hong Kong rejects renewal of Bloomberg reporter's visa
Aug 23, 2025 (AFP)
A journalist who works for Bloomberg News in Hong Kong said Saturday she has to leave the city after a foreign journalists' club revealed that authorities had d...
Trump visits police, troops deployed in US capital
Aug 22, 2025 (AFP)
President Donald Trump on Thursday visited police and troops he has deployed in the US capital in what he calls a crackdown on crime, saying they were going to ...
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