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Meta says no sign of AI bedeviling elections in 2024
Dec 03, 2024 (AFP)
Defenses against deceptive influence campaigns at the networking giant's platform held firm, with no evidence that such coordinated efforts got much attention o...
Tanzania's ruling party wins landslide victory in local vote
Nov 28, 2024 (AFP)
Widely seen as a key test for the country's democratic institutions ahead of presidential elections next year, the vote on Wednesday was marked by claims of rig...
Senegal signs off on ruling party's parliament landslide
Nov 27, 2024 (AFP)
The final results give the Pastef party 130 seats out of 165 in parliament, one of the largest majorities ever won by a single party in the west African nation....
Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai's court case a 'show trial': son
Nov 26, 2024 (AFP)
The 76-year-old media tycoon has been testifying for three days in Hong Kong about claims that he colluded with foreign forces, an offence carrying up to life i...
Ukraine parliament cancels session over threat of Russian attack
Nov 22, 2024 (AFP)
Moscow's 33-month invasion of Ukraine escalated this week with Russia's first launch of a nuclear-capable mid-range ballistic missile at the city of Dnipro on T...
Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai tells court he advocated 'peaceful resistance'
Nov 22, 2024 (AFP)
Lai has been giving evidence for three days in his trial for collusion with foreign forces, an offence carrying up to life in prison under the sweeping national...
'The boss' Jimmy Lai confident during Hong Kong security trial
Nov 20, 2024 (AFP)
The 76-year-old took the witness stand in his trial for collusion with foreign forces, breaking the silence he has kept over five previous trials arising from h...
Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai takes witness stand in collusion trial
Nov 20, 2024 (AFP)
Lai's case is one of the most prominent prosecuted under the national security law imposed by Beijing in 2020, with Western countries and rights groups demandin...
Apple Daily: the Hong Kong tabloid that dared to challenge China
Nov 20, 2024 (AFP)
But Beijing had the last laugh when the outlet was forced to shut down in 2021, its newsroom raided and assets frozen under the sweeping national security law i...
China says Western criticism of HK sentences 'desecrates' rule of law
Nov 19, 2024 (AFP)
A court in the former British colony on Tuesday jailed all 45 defendants convicted of subversion in the city's largest national security trial, with "mastermind...
Scholar, lawmakers and journalist among Hong Kongers jailed
Nov 19, 2024 (AFP)
The defendants, who include some of the city's most prominent activists, received sentences ranging from four years and two months to 10 years for "conspiracy t...
Benny Tai: from Hong Kong's elite scholar to 'state subverter'
Nov 19, 2024 (AFP)
In 2001, he received a medal of honour for civic education around the Basic Law, Hong Kong's mini-constitution which has governed the former British colony sinc...
Deal in sight to greenlight new EU top team after standoff
Nov 19, 2024 (AFP)
The heads of some of the main political groups held talks on Tuesday to see through the approval of Ursula von der Leyen's new European Commission without delay...
Beijing says Myanmar rebel leader in China for 'medical care'
Nov 19, 2024 (AFP)
China is a major ally and arms supplier of Myanmar's ruling junta, but is also thought to maintain ties with ethnic minority armed groups that hold territory al...
Acquitted 'Hong Kong 47' defendant sees freedom as responsibility
Nov 19, 2024 (AFP)
Former district councillor and street dancer Lee Yue-shun is one of only two people to have walked away from a national security law trial. On Tuesday, 45 of hi...
Hong Kong court jails 45 democracy campaigners on subversion charges
Nov 19, 2024 (AFP)
International condemnation was swift, with the United States, Australia and rights groups slamming the sentencing as evidence of the erosion of political freedo...
COP host Azerbaijan jailed activists over 'critical opinions': rights body
Nov 18, 2024 (AFP)
Michael O'Flaherty, the pan-European body's top rights official, in the letter to Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev urged the immediate release of all such huma...
Bangladesh extends armed forces judicial powers
Nov 17, 2024 (AFP)
The government order, issued November 15, extends for two more months the powers of the armed forces to engage in day-to-day enforcement activities like the pol...
Hong Kong political freedoms in spotlight during bumper trial week
Nov 17, 2024 (AFP)
On Wednesday, jailed tycoon and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai will testify in his collusion trial, breaking the silence he has kept over five previous trials...
Rebels in Germany's SPD look to defence minister to rescue party
Nov 15, 2024 (AFP)
Pistorius, 64, has managed the impressive feat of becoming the most liked politician in the country while serving in Scholz's rowdy three-way coalition that bro...
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