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Israeli ex-army chief joins new party to contest November poll
Aug 14, 2022 (AFP)
Recent media reports had said that Eisenkot, chief of staff from 2015 to 2019, was being courted by political parties including Prime Minister Yair Lapid's cent...
Iraq judiciary dismisses Sadr's demand to dissolve parliament
Aug 14, 2022 (AFP)
Followers of Sadr, in defiance of his Shiite rivals of the pro-Iran Coordination Framework, have been staging a sit-in protest at Iraq's parliament. In the late...
Sadr opponents announce rival Baghdad sit-in as Iraqis tire of fueding
Aug 12, 2022 (AFP)
In a statement read out to thousands of supporters gathered on one of the main access roads to the capital's Green Zone government and diplomatic compound, the ...
Australian economist pleads not guilty at Myanmar junta trial: source
Aug 12, 2022 (AFP)
Sean Turnell was working as an adviser to Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi when he was detained shortly after the coup that ousted her government in F...
Gustavo Petro sworn in as Colombia's first leftist president
Aug 08, 2022 (AFP)
The 62-year-old former guerrilla and one-time mayor takes over from the deeply unpopular Ivan Duque, with plans for profound reforms in a country beset by econo...
Myanmar junta charges Japanese journalist with encouraging dissent
Aug 04, 2022 (AFP)
Myanmar's military has clamped down on press freedoms since its coup last year, arresting reporters and photographers as well as revoking broadcasting licences ...
Election tech under spotlight as Kenya prepares to vote
Aug 04, 2022 (AFP)
Here's what to know as Kenya's votes on August 9: - Fingerprints and photographs - After the death of more than 1,100 people in violence after the 2007 election...
'We have nothing': Iraqi protesters voice anger, hopel
Aug 03, 2022 (AFP)
The mass sit-in is led by followers of powerful Shiite Muslim preacher and political kingmaker Moqtada Sadr, who is facing off against a rival, Iran-backed Shii...
Pelosi: a long history of provoking China over human right
Aug 02, 2022 (AFP)
Pelosi, the country's most powerful lawmaker, stoked fresh tensions in US-China relations Tuesday when she flew into Taiwan, the highest-ranked elected US offic...
Iraq tensions soar as protesters rally against parliament occupation
Aug 01, 2022 (AFP)
Almost 10 months after Iraqis went to the polls, a political standoff pits two key factions of the Shiite political scene, between the populist Sadr with a devo...
Japanese national detained in Myanmar
Jul 31, 2022 (AFP)
A military coup last year sparked rolling protests and a deadly response from the junta, with more than 2,000 people killed and at least 14,000 arrested, accord...
Pro-Sadr protesters vow to remain inside Iraq parliament
Jul 31, 2022 (AFP)
It is the second time in days that supporters of the firebrand Shiite cleric have forced their way into the legislative chamber, after October elections failed ...
Germany summons Myanmar diplomat over executions
Jul 28, 2022 (AFP)
A foreign ministry spokesman confirmed to AFP that the summons for the charge d'affaires had taken place in Berlin, after the ministry's director general for As...
More protests or fresh polls? Iraq mulls political paralysis
Jul 28, 2022 (AFP)
"Neither side is willing to make any concessions," political scientist Ali al-Baidar said Thursday, one day after crowds breached Baghdad's heavily fortified Gr...
'Never surrender': Myanmar's executed activists; As Junta says deserved 'many death sentences'
Jul 26, 2022 (AFP)
AFP looks at lives of Kyaw Min Yu -- better known as "Ko Jimmy" -- and Phyo Zeya Thaw, whose executions sparked shock and anger in Myanmar and around the world....
ASEAN says Myanmar executions 'highly reprehensible'
Jul 26, 2022 (AFP)
Cambodia, which currently heads the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), said the bloc was "extremely troubled and deeply saddened" by the executions...
Myanmar junta executes two pro-democracy rivals
Jul 25, 2022 (AFP)
The executions sparked widespread condemnation, heightened fears that more death sentences will be carried out and prompted calls for the international communit...
US citizen detained in Myanmar: embassy; Villagers accuse junta troops of massacre
Jul 22, 2022 (AFP)
"We are aware of the wrongful detention of a US citizen in Burma," the spokesperson told AFP, using the country's former name. The US has led Western criticism ...
'Private rebellion': Hong Kong's anglophone poets gain recognition abroad
Jul 21, 2022 (AFP)
In March, at the age of 19, he became the youngest ever winner of the United Kingdom's National Poetry Competition. He beat more than 7,000 contenders from 100 ...
Myanmar rebels claim killing and capturing junta troops
Jul 19, 2022 (AFP)
Days after its putsch last year, the junta reaffirmed a ceasefire with the Arakan Army (AA), which has for years fought a war for autonomy for Rakhine state's e...
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