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Macron's world standing damaged by vote turmoil: analysts
Jul 02, 2024 (AFP)
France votes Sunday in the decisive final round of the snap legislative polls Macron called after his camp received a drubbing in European polls last month, ope...
UK Labour set to surpass 1997 landslide in election: poll
Jul 02, 2024 (AFP)
The centre-left opposition party -- out of power since 2010 -- is predicted to claim 484 out of a total of 650 seats in what would be an unprecedented victory i...
Court denies amnesty for Catalan separatist on embezzlement charge
Jul 01, 2024 (AFP)
The move came just over a month after MPs passed an amnesty law aimed at drawing a line under years of efforts to prosecute those involved in the botched secess...
Suspected leaders of failed Bolivian coup remanded in custody
Jun 29, 2024 (AFP)
Former army chief Juan Jose Zuniga, former head of navy Juan Arnez and Alejandro Irahola, former head of the army's mechanized brigade, will be held in a high-s...
Bolivia arrests 17 as failed coup deepens instability; President denies conspiracy
Jun 28, 2024 (AFP)
Fourteen civilians who opposed the coup were wounded by gunfire, according to the authorities. Some had to be hospitalized and operated on, Luis Arce told the p...
Hard up UK voters driven to political fringes by cost of living
Jun 28, 2024 (AFP)
Fourteen years on and the military veteran is a recently bankrupt divorced father-of-two renting a room in a shared house, despite working full-time throughout ...
Bolivia arrests 17 as failed coup deepens instability
Jun 28, 2024 (AFP)
Tensions have been rising in recent weeks in the Andean nation over surging prices, shortages of dollars and fuel, and a feud between President Luis Arce and th...
Instability and economic crisis: Bolivia after failed coup
Jun 28, 2024 (AFP)
This is what you need to know about the fallout of the botched uprising in the small Andean nation, rich in natural gas and lithium reserves: - The army - It wa...
Philippine army says seven leftist rebels killed in clash
Jun 27, 2024 (AFP)
The firefight occurred the day before near the municipality of Pantabangan as the army battled about 20 New People's Army (NPA) guerrillas, said Maj. Jimson Mas...
Maldives climate minister arrested over 'black magic'
Jun 27, 2024 (AFP)
State Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Energy, Fathimath Shamnaz Ali Saleem, was arrested on Sunday along with two others in the capital Male, polic...
Bolivian army chief arrested after coup attempt
Jun 27, 2024 (AFP)
The troops and tanks entered Plaza Murillo, a historic square where the presidency and Congress are situated, in the afternoon, prompting global condemnation of...
Bolivian army leaders arrested after coup attempt
Jun 27, 2024 (AFP)
The troops and tanks entered Plaza Murillo, a historic square where the presidency and Congress are situated, in the afternoon, prompting global condemnation of...
Clashes in northern Myanmar town enter second day
Jun 26, 2024 (AFP)
The Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) on Tuesday launched dawn attacks on military positions in the town of Kyaukme, which sits on a vital trade route to C...
Hong Kong LGBTQ couples seek love, recognition in mass wedding
Jun 26, 2024 (AFP)
The Chinese city does not recognise same-sex marriage and the newlyweds had to legally register their marriages in the United States, with the officiant joining...
UK police arrest four at PM's property for 'trespassing'
Jun 25, 2024 (AFP)
The arrests come during a general election campaign where Sunak is battling to overcome the centre-left Labour Party's large lead in the polls. "We have arreste...
Hong Kong dissident argues for lesser sentence after security trial
Jun 25, 2024 (AFP)
Tai, 59, pleaded guilty at a mass trial of democracy activists to "conspiracy to subvert the state power" for organising an unofficial primary poll in 2020 to s...
Israel top court rules ultra-Orthodox men must serve in army
Jun 25, 2024 (AFP)
The High Court of Justice's decision on the politically charged issue comes as calls grow for ultra-Orthodox men, historically exempt from mandatory service, to...
First Myanmar junta conscripts to begin duty at end of month
Jun 24, 2024 (AFP)
The junta enforced a conscription law in February, three years after it seized power and sparked a widespread armed uprising that has spread across swathes of t...
Myanmar armed groups accuse junta of breaking China-brokered ceasefire
Jun 20, 2024 (AFP)
Beijing brokered a truce between the junta and the "Three Brotherhood Alliance" in January after months of fighting that displaced more than half a million peop...
Dutch cabinet to be sworn in next month: new PM
Jun 17, 2024 (AFP)
"The new cabinet will be sworn in on July 2," Dick Schoof said after meeting candidates considered for deputy ministerial positions in The Hague. "The date is s...
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