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Colombia election signals return of Latin America's left
Jun 21, 2022 (AFP)
For Colombia, the leftwards swing last weekend was unprecedented: Gustavo Petro, 62, became the country's first ever left-wing president. Elected with 50.44 per...
Trial of Myanmar's Suu Kyi moved to prison compound: source
Jun 21, 2022 (AFP)
The Nobel laureate, 77, was detained by the military when it ousted her government last year and faces a raft of charges that could see her jailed for more than...
Myanmar junta rejects UN rights criticism as 'unfounded'
Jun 17, 2022 (AFP)
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday said Myanmar's military government had likely committed "crimes against humanity" in its crac...
Urgent UN appeal to Myanmar junta to halt executions
Jun 14, 2022 (AFP)
Myanmar's military seized power on February 1 last year, ousting the civilian government and arresting its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. The junta has sinc...
War-scarred Iraq sinks deeper into political crisis
Jun 13, 2022 (AFP)
Shiite Muslim firebrand cleric and former anti-US militia leader Moqtada Sadr on Sunday sparked fresh turmoil when his followers, the biggest bloc in parliament...
Iraqi MPs from firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr's bloc resign: official
Jun 12, 2022 (AFP)
Sadr on Thursday had urged the MPs from his bloc -- the biggest in parliament -- to ready resignation papers, in a bid, he said, to break the parliamentary logj...
Nicargua's Ortega urges parliament to welcome US, Russian troopsl
Jun 12, 2022 (AFP)
The presidential decree was sent to parliament "as a matter of urgency" and is to be discussed on Tuesday, according to the legislative agenda published on Satu...
Hong Kong pro-democracy figures set for largest national security trial
Jun 07, 2022 (AFP)
Under the security law, which Beijing imposed in 2020 following huge, sometimes violent democracy protests, the pro-democracy figures are charged with "conspira...
Myanmar junta slams France over 'illegitimate' snub, threatens ties
Jun 06, 2022 (AFP)
Last week the junta said it would execute a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi's ousted party and a prominent democracy activist, in what would by the countr...
Cambodia ruling party scores landslide local poll win
Jun 06, 2022 (AFP)
The country voted Sunday with opposition figures hoping to dent long-time leader Hun Sen's grip on power ahead of national elections next year. But preliminary ...
Myanmar villagers accuse junta troops of burning spree; First executions planned
Jun 04, 2022 (AFP)
The Sagaing region has seen fierce fighting and bloody reprisals since the coup last year, with local "People's Defence Force" (PDF) members clashing regularly ...
Albania's parliament elects army chief president
Jun 04, 2022 (AFP)
With his election to the post Bajram Begaj steps down from his position as chief-of-staff of the armed forces. Although parliament has most political power in A...
With Tiananmen gatherings banned, Hong Kongers remember in private
Jun 04, 2022 (AFP)
For the first time since 2000, when he started attending an annual vigil to mark the anniversary alongside tens of thousands of fellow Hong Kongers in the city'...
Myanmar classrooms become latest battleground as junta opens schools
Jun 03, 2022 (AFP)
Public schoolteachers -- dressed in the green and white uniforms mandated by the education ministry -- were prominent in the early mass protests against the mil...
Number of displaced in Myanmar tops 1 million: UN
Jun 01, 2022 (AFP)
Almost 700,000 people have been forced to flee their homes since the toppling of Aung San Suu Kyi's government last year, the UN Office for the Coordination of ...
China-backed Myanmar rebels call on junta to embrace peace talks
May 31, 2022 (AFP)
With a standing force of around 25,000, the United Wa State Army is one of the world's largest non-state militaries, manufacturing its own guns and conscripting...
Myanmar junta likely using air strikes as 'collective punishment': Amnesty
May 31, 2022 (AFP)
Deadly clashes have ravaged swathes of the country since last year's coup, which ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi's government, with the junta unable to ...
Suu Kyi's family file detention complaint at UN
May 25, 2022 (AFP)
Since a coup ousted her government in February 2021, plunging Myanmar into upheaval, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been in military custody and faces ...
Beijing health chief sacked as city battles virus outbreak
May 25, 2022 (AFP)
The city has reported hundreds of cases in recent weeks in an Omicron-variant-fuelled outbreak -- its largest since the start of the pandemic. Millions have bee...
China congratulates Australia's Albanese in hint at thawing ties
May 24, 2022 (AFP)
China cut off diplomatic and trade channels with Australia in a largely symbolic act of fury last May, following clashes over issues including human rights, esp...
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