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Hong Kong arrests 18-year-old for 'seditious' toilet graffiti
Jul 23, 2025 (AFP)
The graffiti provoked hatred, contempt or disaffection against the Hong Kong government, police said, without specifying the exact content. Public opposition to...
'Class war': outsiders moving to Puerto Rico trigger displacement
Jul 21, 2025 (AFP)
Cuevas left her home -- now purple and split in two -- and her beloved city for another further south, forced out by the rising cost of living and an explosion ...
Hong Kong publishers join independent book fair after govt block
Jul 17, 2025 (AFP)
Authorities have clamped down on publications allowed at the annual Hong Kong Book Fair, one of the largest in Asia, since a national security law was imposed o...
Israel religious party under fire over service exemptions stance
Jul 15, 2025 (AFP)
The departure of the United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party leaves Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government with the slenderest of majorities -- 61 of the 120 s...
Hong Kong court hears appeals by jailed democracy campaigners
Jul 14, 2025 (AFP)
They were among 45 opposition figures, including some of Hong Kong's best-known democracy activists, who were sentenced in November over a 2020 informal primary...
Macron says freedom under greatest threat since 1945
Jul 13, 2025 (AFP)
"We are living a pivotal moment," Macron said in a speech to the armed forces on the eve of the national Bastille Day holiday, denouncing "imperalist policies",...
Exiled Chinese lawyers grieve loss of civil society decade after crackdown
Jul 09, 2025 (AFP)
When he opened it, more than a dozen officers burst into his living room and ordered him to follow them to the police station, where he was interrogated and thr...
Israel: Ultra-Orthodox conscription threatens Netanyahu's coalition
Jul 06, 2025 (AFP)
"The army will begin this week issuing summons to complete the enlistment process for ultra-Orthodox men whose status as yeshiva (religious seminary) students i...
President's war powers rest on 'uneasy balance' with Congress
Jul 02, 2025 (UPI)
The president did not seek congressional approval before signing off on the bombing, though it has not been uncommon for presidents to make such decisions unila...
UK considers envoy for Britons held abroad
Jun 29, 2025 (AFP)
High-profile cases like jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah and imprisoned Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai have spotlighted the plight of Britons...
Hong Kong opposition party disbands citing 'immense' pressure
Jun 29, 2025 (AFP)
The League of Social Democrats (LSD), founded in 2006, championed democratisation and grassroots issues in Hong Kong's legislature and on the streets. Its lawma...
Hong Kong's dragnet widens 5 years after national security law
Jun 27, 2025 (AFP)
The 28-year-old protest icon has spent more than four years behind bars and hoped to be let out in early 2027. Now, there is no end in sight. Monday marks five ...
Iran diaspora in Los Angeles dream of 'regime change'
Jun 25, 2025 (AFP)
But as he stands among his dates, dried plums and pistachios, he also cherishes the hope of change in his native country. Iran "is not capable of providing food...
Bangladesh probe into Hasina-era abuses warns 'impunity' remains
Jun 23, 2025 (AFP)
The Commission of Inquiry into Enforced Disappearances is probing abuses during the rule of Hasina, whose government was accused of widespread human rights abus...
Iran opposition leaders say Khamenei must step down
Jun 22, 2025 (AFP)
Reza Pahlavi, the son of the shah ousted by the 1979 Islamic revolution, and Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the People's Mujahedin (MEK), which is outlawed in Ira...
Democrats assail 'erratic' Trump over Iran strikes
Jun 22, 2025 (AFP)
Members of the Senate and House of Representatives argued that US intelligence had not shown an imminent threat from the Middle Eastern country that justified T...
Critic of Nicaragua's Ortega shot dead in exile in Costa Rica
Jun 20, 2025 (AFP)
Major Roberto Samcam, 66, was gunned down at his apartment building in San Jose, reportedly by men pretending to deliver a package. "It was something we did not...
Military parade draws Trump fans, and critics, to US capital
Jun 15, 2025 (AFP)
On the National Mall, enclosed within almost 20 miles (32 kilometers) of high-security fencing, nearly 7,000 soldiers and about 150 military vehicles paraded to...
US capital divided by Trump's military parade
Jun 14, 2025 (AFP)
The divided US capital epitomized a political rift in the United States that Saturday's display of soldiers, tanks and fighter jets looked to further deepen. Fo...
Texas closes Capitol; Georgia deploys tear gas amid protests
Jun 14, 2025 (UPI)
The Texas Department of Public Safety evacuated the Capitol building and grounds after learning of a threat made against state lawmakers who were planning to at...
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