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Litany of woes plague Swedish PM's first 100 days
Jan 27, 2023 (AFP)
Dismal opinion polls on Friday only added to the right-wing leader's long list of headaches since he took power 100 days ago thanks to an unprecedented alliance...
Fighting flares between junta and rebels in southern Myanmar
Jan 24, 2023 (AFP)
Myanmar has been in turmoil since Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government was toppled in an army coup almost two years ago. Long-established ethnic rebel groups,...
Israeli high-tech workers protest judicial reform plan
Jan 24, 2023 (AFP)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government says judges have too much power over elected officials, arguing the proposed reforms -- such as allowing parliame...
Brazil's Lula sacks army commander after anti-government riots
Jan 22, 2023 (AFP)
The veteran leftist's dismissal of Julio Cesar de Arruda came a day before Lula was to make his first trip abroad -- to Argentina -- as he moves to put the Sout...
Lula's government fires 13 from his security team after Brazil riots
Jan 19, 2023 (AFP)
A notice in the official gazette said the 13 troops were dismissed from the institutional security office attached to the presidency. This followed the removal ...
Lula has soldiers removed from presidential residence after riots
Jan 17, 2023 (AFP)
Just days after the attack on the presidential palace, Supreme Court and Congress by backers of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, Lula said the rioters lik...
Myanmar air strike kills five, including mother and toddler
Jan 14, 2023 (AFP)
Myanmar has been in turmoil since Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government was toppled in a military coup almost two years ago, ending the southeast Asian nation'...
Brasilia rioters: Who are they?
Jan 11, 2023 (AFP)
Since their far-right hero Jair Bolsonaro lost elections in October, they have camped in the capital Brasilia, clamoring for the military to launch a coup to ri...
UK vows no let-up with China after Jimmy Lai intervention
Jan 11, 2023 (AFP)
Minister for Asia Anne-Marie Trevelyan met the pro-democracy figure's legal team on Tuesday, prompting an angry response from the Hong Kong government. But spea...
Myanmar junta hits ethnic rebels with air strikes near India border
Jan 11, 2023 (AFP)
The military coup almost two years ago has sparked renewed fighting with long-established ethnic rebel groups, as well as with dozens of "People's Defence Force...
Hong Kong blasts UK minister for meeting Jimmy Lai's lawyers
Jan 11, 2023 (AFP)
Lai, the 75-year-old founder of the now-shuttered Apple Daily newspaper, is facing up to life in prison for "colluding with foreign forces" -- a crime under the...
China says 'firmly opposes violent attack' on Brazil government buildings
Jan 09, 2023 (AFP)
"China closely follows and firmly opposes the violent attack on the federal authority in Brazil on January 8," foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said. Beij...
Why Indonesia is moving its capital to the rainforests of Borneo
Jan 06, 2023 (AFP)
The project is set to launch at the end of President Joko Widodo's term in 2024. Here's why Southeast Asia's largest economy is moving its administrative centre...
Peruvians clamor anew for president's removal
Jan 05, 2023 (AFP)
Protesters used stones and burning tires to barricade main routes in the southern regions of Puno, Cusco, Apurimac and Arequipa, as well as Junin in the center,...
'Buddhist bin Laden' firebrand monk feted by Myanmar junta chief
Jan 03, 2023 (AFP)
Wirathu -- who received the moniker from Time Magazine in 2013 following deadly communal riots -- was awarded the title of "Thiri Pyanchi" on Tuesday, the milit...
German defence minister under fire for New Year's video
Jan 02, 2023 (AFP)
Barely audible above the sound of exploding fireworks, Christine Lambrecht reflected on a year ending with "war raging in the middle of Europe". The conflict in...
Suu Kyi's party condemns latest Myanmar jail sentence
Dec 31, 2022 (AFP)
Suu Kyi was handed a seven-year jail term for corruption on Friday in the last of a slew of trials in a junta court that rights groups have said were a sham. Th...
Many hurdles await Brazil's President Lula
Dec 31, 2022 (AFP)
A "Herculean task" awaits the new head of Latin America's largest economy, a country of 215 million of whom more than half face food insecurity, Lula's vice-pre...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi: Prisoner of generals
Dec 30, 2022 (AFP)
The Nobel laureate, 77, has been detained since a coup ousted her government in February 2021, ending Myanmar's brief democratic experiment and sparking huge pr...
Israel parliament passes laws ahead of Netanyahu return
Dec 27, 2022 (AFP)
Following his November 1 election win, Netanyahu secured a mandate to form a government backed by ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties and an extreme-right bloc. Netan...
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