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Anne Hidalgo: crusading Paris mayor eyeing presidency
Sep 12, 2021 (AFP)
Hidalgo, 62, was a virtual unknown seven years ago when she succeeded her former mentor and boss, Bertrand Delanoe, as mayor of Paris -- a position seen as a st...
Sao Paulo art fest gives voice to resistance in times of darkness
Sep 11, 2021 (AFP)
Marking its 70th anniversary the exhibition, one of the most important of its kind in the world, reflects a reaction to the extreme right embodied in Brazil by ...
Councillors swear new Hong Kong loyalty oath after hundreds quit
Sep 10, 2021 (AFP)
District councils are the only political office in Hong Kong where all seats are directly elected by residents. They deal with bread and butter local issues lik...
Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil leaders charged with 'inciting subversion'
Sep 09, 2021 (AFP)
The city's police charged Hong Kong Alliance as an organisation, its chairperson Lee Cheuk-yan, vice-chairman Albert Ho -- both veteran pro-democracy activists ...
Brazil: Bolsonaro's controversial presidency
Sep 08, 2021 (AFP)
- First far-right president - On October 28, 2018, Brazil elects Bolsonaro its first far-right leader. His win comes more than three decades after the end of th...
Myanmar cell towers attacked after shadow government 'war' call
Sep 08, 2021 (AFP)
The country has been in chaos since the military seized power in February, sparking mass pro-democracy rallies followed by a deadly crackdown and renewed fighti...
More than 20 Myanmar troops killed near China border, rebels say
Sep 03, 2021 (AFP)
The country has been in turmoil since a military coup in February, which sparked huge pro-democracy protests, a bloody crackdown and renewed fighting in ethnic ...
Digital dissent: Hong Kongers race to archive democracy movement
Aug 27, 2021 (AFP)
In the end, it was food safety inspectors that finished Hong Kong's museum to those killed in the Tiananmen Square protests -- the only memorial of its kind wit...
Hong Kong 'patriot' committee removes opposition lawmaker from office
Aug 26, 2021 (AFP)
Cheng Chung-tai, one of just two opposition figures left in the city's legislature, was deemed disloyal on the basis of his previous statements and behaviour, c...
Indigenous protest as Brazil high court hears land case
Aug 25, 2021 (AFP)
In what organizers say was the biggest indigenous protest ever in Brazil, an estimated 6,000 demonstrators marched to the high court as it began a session where...
Women candidates in Iraq poll less than half 2018 level
Aug 25, 2021 (AFP)
In the 2018 legislative election, 2,014 women competed among a total of 6,982 candidates, but this year the number of women standing will be just 963 out of a t...
Hong Kong censorship law to check old films for national security breaches
Aug 24, 2021 (AFP)
Authorities have embarked on a sweeping crackdown to root out Beijing's critics after huge and often violent democracy protests convulsed the city two years ago...
Brazil indigenous protesters camp on Bolsonaro's doorstep
Aug 23, 2021 (AFP)
Pounding wooden tent poles into the ground, the protesters set up the "Fight for Life" camp outside the seat of power in Brasilia, near the trio of modernist bu...
Scotland's pro-independence parties strike power-sharing deal
Aug 20, 2021 (AFP)
The agreement between the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the Scottish Green Party needs to be approved by members but tightens ties between the two parties, ...
Myanmar shadow government launches guerilla radio
Aug 20, 2021 (AFP)
Myanmar has been in turmoil since Aung San Suu Kyi's administration was ousted in a February coup, sparking huge pro-democracy protests and a bloody military cr...
Myanmar junta crackdown death toll passes 1,000
Aug 18, 2021 (AFP)
The country has been in turmoil since February 1, when the armed forces seized power in a lightning coup, triggering dissent as protesters demanded a return to ...
Zambia's new president vows 'better' democracy after landslide win
Aug 16, 2021 (AFP)
Speaking shortly after his predecessor Edgar Lungu conceded defeat, the business tycoon and veteran opposition leader said his camp had been victims of a "bruta...
Hong Kong group behind huge democracy rallies disbands
Aug 15, 2021 (AFP)
The dissolution comes as China remoulds Hong Kong in its own authoritarian image and purges the city of any person or group deemed disloyal or unpatriotic. The ...
Myanmar junta says had 'nothing to do' with UN envoy plot
Aug 10, 2021 (AFP)
Kyaw Moe Tun made headlines after the army's February coup, brazenly disregarding its insistence that he no longer represents the country at the New York-based ...
Brazil's Bolsonaro flexes muscles with military parade
Aug 10, 2021 (AFP)
Smiling with military top brass at his side, the far-right leader stood atop the palace steps as a long convoy of tanks and armored vehicles filed through the s...
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