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Hong Kong police arrest producer behind investigation of mob attack
Nov 03, 2020 (AFP)
Public broadcaster RTHK said officers searched producer Choy Yuk-ling's home following her arrest. Police confirmed the operation on Tuesday evening saying Choy...
Hong Kong opposition politicians arrested for legislature protest
Nov 01, 2020 (AFP)
The seven politicians -- four of them sitting lawmakers -- were arrested on charges of "contempt" and "interfering" with members of the city's Legislative Counc...
Trump records show Chinese business pursuits and bank account: NYT
Oct 21, 2020 (AFP)
Trump has spent recent days promoting a murky claim that Biden's son Hunter sold access to his father in Ukraine and China when he was vice president under Bara...
'A moving current': Thai protesters adopt Hong Kong tactics
Oct 20, 2020 (AFP)
Images from Bangkok over the weekend of activists in hard hats, goggles and gas masks facing off against the police were strongly reminiscent of the methods use...
Young and restless: Protest parallels in Thailand and Hong Kong
Oct 19, 2020 (AFP)
Voranai Vanijaka, a political analyst at Bangkok's Thammasat University, said tech-savvy youths in both territories have "shared cultural values". "(It's) the l...
Belarus opposition trio nominated for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 18, 2020 (AFP)
Geir Toskedal, of the Christian Democratic Party, told the Vart Land daily he had nominated Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Maria Kolesnikova and Veronika Tsepkalo "for...
Ardern wins landslide in New Zealand's 'Covid election'
Oct 17, 2020 (AFP)
Ardern's centre-left Labour Party took 64 seats in the 120-member parliament with 49 percent of the vote, after the youthful and charismatic leader steered the ...
Governments use pandemic to crack down on online dissent: watchdog
Oct 14, 2020 (AFP)
The report by Washington-based Freedom House said authorities in dozens of countries have cited the Covid-19 outbreak "to justify expanded surveillance powers a...
Facebook's Zuckerberg adds $100 mn for election administrators
Oct 13, 2020 (AFP)
The new donation is on top of $300 million Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan pledged last month and will pay for infrastructure including voting equipment, PPE for ...
National Guard 'available' in US capital in case of election unrest
Oct 13, 2020 (AFP)
"There have been no requests from other agencies to support at this time, but we're always available to support" the city's police department of other federal a...
Campaigns sidestep Cambridge Analytica crackdown with new methods
Oct 11, 2020 (AFP)
Other messages tell voters they are not registered, or offer unverified information about a political opponent. Fraudulent messages like these are drawing atten...
Texas judge blocks governor order limiting ballot drop-off sites
Oct 10, 2020 (AFP)
The order, issued in early October by Republican Governor Greg Abbott, limited the number of drop-off centers to one per county, even as mail-in voting is expec...
Former Trump fundraiser charged with illicit lobbying on 1MDB, China
Oct 09, 2020 (AFP)
Elliott Broidy was charged in Washington federal court with one count of conspiracy to act as an unregistered foreign agent after allegedly agreeing to take mil...
Facebook nixes Trump ads as social media electoral tensions rise
Oct 01, 2020 (AFP)
The move late Wednesday marked the latest by the leading social network seeking to curb misinformation while seeking to steer clear of political involvement. Th...
Facebook warns of restrictions in case of US post-election turmoil
Sep 22, 2020 (AFP)
Nick Clegg, a former deputy British prime minister who is Facebook's head of global affairs, said the top social platform could take exceptional steps to "restr...
Belarus borders still open despite Lukashenko 'war' talk
Sep 18, 2020 (AFP)
The border guard service said on its Telegram channel that "checks have been stepped up" and "tactical reinforcements have been deployed", but that "checkpoints...
Shinzo Abe: record-breaking PM undone by health woes
Sep 16, 2020 (AFP)
The 65-year-old resigned on Wednesday after more than eight years in office over two terms, forced to step down with a year left in his mandate by a recurrence ...
Top Iraq Shiite cleric backs early election after UN meeting
Sep 13, 2020 (AFP)
"The parliamentary elections scheduled for next year are of great importance," said Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, 90, in an online statement after the bilateral ...
Russia, China hackers targeting US vote, Microsoft warns
Sep 11, 2020 (AFP)
The announcement came as Twitter said it would implement a policy next week to remove "false or misleading information intended to undermine public confidence i...
Japan opposition unites as snap election rumours swirl
Sep 10, 2020 (AFP)
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party will pick a successor to outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe next week, and several top political figures have suggested the ...
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