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German Greens holding onto hope for change after Merkel
Aug 10, 2021 (AFP)
The ecologist party's bid to crown their candidate Annalena Baerbock as Angela Merkel's successor as chancellor seemed to falter this summer over a series of ga...
US praises Egypt's 'constructive' role despite rights concerns
Aug 10, 2021 (AFP)
Biden took office vowing no more "blank checks" to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi due to his sweeping crackdown on dissent but is considering whether t...
Attack on anti-junta UN envoy foiled; as hunger spreads across Myanmar
Aug 06, 2021 (AFP)
In an alleged conspiracy foiled by US investigators, the pair spoke of hiring hitmen who would force Kyaw Moe Tun to resign or, if he refused, to kill him, offi...
Myanmar envoy alerts UN to alleged 'massacre'
Aug 04, 2021 (AFP)
Kyaw Moe Tun sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday saying 40 bodies had been found in Kani township in July in the Sagaing area of n...
Myanmar junta chief says new elections in two years
Aug 01, 2021 (AFP)
The country has been in turmoil since the army ousted the civilian leader in February, launching a crackdown on dissent that has killed more than 900 people acc...
Zambia president deploys army to quell violence ahead of vote
Aug 01, 2021 (AFP)
"Maintaining law and order is a daily chore of the police, but sometimes they need help from other security wings," Lungu said. In several parts of the country,...
'They are wicked': Myanmar's strike holdouts keep up junta defiance
Jul 30, 2021 (AFP)
Thousands of civil servants joined a mass walkout in the days after the February ouster of Aung San Suu Kyi's government in an effort to deny the junta legitima...
Hong Kong's civil society 'withers' under national security purge
Jul 28, 2021 (AFP)
Just days before Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on the city last year, student Wong Yat-chin founded a new group called Student Politicism. He...
Blinken in veiled warning on rights, democracy in India
Jul 28, 2021 (AFP)
Rights groups say civil liberties and the space for dissent are under increasing attack in the world's biggest democracy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's go...
US renews call on Myanmar to free journalist amid Covid fears
Jul 23, 2021 (AFP)
Danny Fenster, managing editor of the Frontier Myanmar news outlet, was taken into custody on May 24 after the military deposed the civilian government on charg...
Dozens arrested in fresh Colombia protests: police
Jul 22, 2021 (AFP)
As Colombians returned to the streets after a weeks-long hiatus, clashes with riot police left dozens of civilians and agents wounded in the cities of Bogota, M...
CORRECTED: Dozens arrested in fresh Colombia protests: police
Jul 22, 2021 (AFP)
As Colombians returned to the streets after a weeks-long hiatus, clashes with riot police left dozens of civilians and agents wounded in the cities of Bogota, M...
US sanctions Cuba defense minister for repressing protests
Jul 22, 2021 (AFP)
The US Treasury Department said its Office of Foreign Assets Control had frozen the assets of minister Alvaro Lopez Miera and the Special National Brigade (SNB)...
Australian adviser's wife pleads Myanmar junta for his release
Jul 18, 2021 (AFP)
Economist Sean Turnell was the first foreign national arrested following the February 1 coup that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi from power. The State Administrative C...
Hong Kong journalist union says press freedoms 'in tatters'
Jul 15, 2021 (AFP)
"The past year is definitely the worst year so far for press freedom," Ronson Chan, chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), said as the union ...
Myanmar junta slams UN on Rohingya resolution
Jul 14, 2021 (AFP)
The country has been in turmoil since the government of Aung San Suu Kyi was ousted in a February coup, sparking huge pro-democracy protests and a bloody milita...
Rohingya wary as Myanmar's anti-junta resistance reaches out
Jul 12, 2021 (AFP)
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the government of Aung San Suu Kyi was ousted in a February coup, sparking huge pro-democracy protests and a bloody military c...
Walking with Myanmar's anti-junta fighters
Jul 11, 2021 (AFP)
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government in February and launched a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protest...
Abiy hails 'historic' Ethiopia election after landslide win
Jul 10, 2021 (AFP)
Abiy hailed the outcome of what he described as a "historic" election -- the first time he faced voters since being appointed prime minister in 2018 following s...
Haiti police blame Colombian, US suspects in president's slaying
Jul 09, 2021 (AFP)
One day after Moise was killed and his wife Martine wounded by gunmen in their Port-au-Prince home, the poorest country in the Americas has no president or work...
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