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Hong Kong mogul Jimmy Lai's 'punditry' not criminal: lawyer
Aug 21, 2025 (AFP)
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai's lawyer clashed with judges on Thursday over whether the pro-democracy newspaper founder's "armchair punditry" on social media ...
Defence begins closing arguments in Hong Kong trial of Jimmy Lai
Aug 20, 2025 (AFP)
The 77-year-old founder of the now-shuttered Apple Daily newspaper has contested two counts of foreign collusion, with authorities accusing him of using various...
Shouts of 'Free DC' as Vance visits troops deployed in US capital
Aug 20, 2025 (AFP)
President Donald Trump ordered the deployment of the National Guard in Washington last week as part of what he has called a crackdown on crime, despite statisti...
Vance, Hegseth, Miller laud Guard troops, denounce capital protesters
Aug 20, 2025 (UPI)
The three Trump administration officials greeted National Guard troops at the capital's Union Station while positioned near a table containing hamburgers for th...
El Salvador schools to require military-style inspections
Aug 19, 2025 (AFP)
El Salvador's new education minister Karla Trigueros -- a military officer with a flair for camouflage -- ordered the country's public schools on Monday to mand...
UK grants asylum to Hong Kong democracy activist Tony Chung
Aug 18, 2025 (AFP)
Hong Kong democracy activist Tony Chung, who once called for the city's independence and was the youngest person to be jailed under its national security law, h...
Republican-led states sending hundreds of troops to US capital
Aug 18, 2025 (AFP)
Mississippi will send some 200 National Guard personnel to Washington, its governor said Monday, where they will join hundreds more from other Republican-led st...
Hong Kong court hears closing arguments in tycoon Jimmy Lai's trial
Aug 18, 2025 (AFP)
Hong Kong prosecutors on Monday began closing arguments in the trial of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, arguing he had shown "unwavering intent" to ask fo...
Former pro-democracy Hong Kong lawmaker granted asylum in Australia
Aug 17, 2025 (AFP)
Former pro-democracy Hong Kong lawmaker Ted Hui who is wanted by the Chinese city has been granted asylum in Australia, he said in a social media post, calling ...
Hong Kong court postpones closing arguments in Jimmy Lai trial
Aug 14, 2025 (AFP)
A court hearing for jailed Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai was postponed on Thursday due to bad weather, further lengthening a national security trial that bega...
Report: Pentagon plans call for U.S. troops to put down civil unrest
Aug 12, 2025 (UPI)
Pentagon officials have created preliminary plans that would place 300 National Guard troops at a base in Arizona and another 300 at a base in Alabama, The Wash...
Israelis protest against Gaza war expansion
Aug 10, 2025 (UPI)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced Friday that the Security Cabinet had approved his proposal "for defeating Hamas," which included th...
UK police arrest hundreds for backing banned pro-Palestine group
Aug 09, 2025 (AFP)
The Metropolitan Police said it had made the arrests, thought to be one of the highest number ever at a single protest in the UK capital, for "supporting a pros...
Trump demands new US census as redistricting war spreads
Aug 07, 2025 (AFP)
Trump called for a "new and highly accurate" census that he wanted based on unspecified "modern day facts and figures" gleaned from the 2024 election. "People w...
EU condemns arrest of former Macau pro-democracy lawmaker
Aug 02, 2025 (AFP)
Au is the first person to be arrested under the city's national security law. Authorities alleged on Thursday that the 68-year-old primary school teacher had ti...
Myanmar junta ends state of emergency in election run-up
Jul 31, 2025 (AFP)
The military declared a state of emergency in February 2021 as it deposed the civilian government of democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi, sparking a many-sided c...
Sri Lanka arrests ex-navy chief over abduction
Jul 28, 2025 (AFP)
Admiral Nishantha Ulugetenne was taken into custody over the disappearance in 2010, when he headed the Directorate of Naval Intelligence, said a detective who a...
China detained activist-singer, says Tibetan exile govt
Jul 27, 2025 (AFP)
Tzukte, popularly known as Asang, was taken into custody sometime in early July after he sang a song eulogising Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, ...
Chinese academic in Australia slams 'ridiculous' Hong Kong bounties
Jul 26, 2025 (AFP)
Hong Kong authorities announced cash rewards on Friday for information leading to the arrest of 19 overseas activists involved in Hong Kong Parliament -- a pro-...
Hong Kong issues bounties for 19 overseas activists on subversion charges
Jul 25, 2025 (AFP)
Political dissent in Hong Kong has been quashed since Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law in 2020 after huge, sometimes violent pro-democracy prote...
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