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Former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly seeking Arizona Senate seat
Feb 12, 2019 (AFP)
"My next mission," the 54-year-old former US Navy captain said in revealing his Senate bid on his Twitter feed. Kelly, a Democrat, would take on Republican Mart...
French 'yellow vests' more prone to conspiracy theories: survey
Feb 11, 2019 (AFP)
Nearly a quarter believe a gun attack on the Christmas market in Strasbourg in December was ordered by the French government to deflect attention from the anti-...
Thai King lambasts 'highly inappropriate' move to make princess PM
Feb 08, 2019 (AFP)
Ubolratana, 67, the older sister of Vajiralongkorn, was announced hours earlier as a candidate in the upcoming elections for the Thai Raksa Chart party, which i...
US House holds first hearings on gun violence and climate change in 8 years
Feb 07, 2019 (AFP)
"No more climate denialism. No more evasions. @HouseDemocrats are in charge," tweeted the House Natural Resources Committee. A hearing on gun violence was held ...
Israel bans election candidates from using troop images
Feb 07, 2019 (AFP)
"It is forbidden during the 90 days ahead of the elections to use the army for propaganda purposes, notably pictures of soldiers with the prime minister," he sa...
All the President's men: on parade with India's elite bodyguards
Jan 24, 2019 (AFP)
The President's Bodyguard, a 200-strong cavalry unit, have for centuries been assigned to India's uppermost VIPs, from British viceroys to modern-day heads of s...
John Kerry to Trump: 'Resign'
Jan 22, 2019 (AFP)
"I've told people I have not taken it off the table, but I'm not sitting around actively planning a (2020) campaign, or doing something, no," Kerry, 75, told CN...
Facebook to tighten political ad rules for 2019 elections
Jan 16, 2019 (AFP)
"As we prepare for major elections around the world this year, we're continuing our focus on preventing foreign interference and giving people more information ...
Revolution at gates of protest-hit Paris men's fashion
Jan 15, 2019 (AFP)
Dior moved its show from Saturday to Friday to avoid the weekly Paris demonstrations which often turn violent after its flagship shop on the Champs Elysees was ...
Indian temple trailblazer beaten by mother-in-law
Jan 15, 2019 (AFP)
Kanakadurga, 39, had been in hiding since she made history by setting foot in the Sabarimala temple on January 2 along with Bindu Ammini, sparking days of unres...
India temple trailblazers braving threats and family anger
Jan 14, 2019 (AFP)
In black robes and under cover of darkness, the two women evaded a blockade to enter the remote hilltop Sabarimala temple early on January 2, setting off violen...
Greece appoints new defence minister before confidence vote
Jan 14, 2019 (AFP)
Tspiras on Sunday called for a confidence vote in parliament over the resignation of defence minister Panos Kammenos, leader of a party that left the coalition ...
Austrian Post Office to delete customers' political data
Jan 10, 2019 (AFP)
Austrian Post head Georg Poelzl told the APA news agency that a database of the likely political affinities of around 2.2 million customers would be deleted "as...
Trump campaign firm pleads guilty in Facebook data case
Jan 09, 2019 (AFP)
The social media giant has admitted that Cambridge Analytica -- a political advisory that ran Trump's digital outreach in 2016 -- used an app to collect the pri...
Third woman enters flashpoint Indian temple
Jan 04, 2019 (AFP)
The Sabarimala temple in the southern state of Kerala has been at the centre of a prolonged showdown since India's top court overturned in September a ban on wo...
It's official: divided government arrives on Capitol Hill
Jan 03, 2019 (AFP)
Battle-tested Nancy Pelosi will in all likelihood win the gavel as speaker of the House of Representatives, a dramatic return to national power for the Californ...
Democrats to take on Trump as divided US Congress arrives in Washington
Jan 03, 2019 (AFP)
Battle-tested Nancy Pelosi was poised to take over as speaker of the House as a partial federal government shutdown over Trump's insistence that lawmakers fund ...
'Purification' rite after women enter flashpoint Indian temple
Jan 02, 2019 (AFP)
The Supreme Court in September overturned a decades-old ban on women of menstruating age -- deemed as those between 10 and 50 -- setting foot inside the gold-pl...
Democrats in new Congress: Thorns in Trump's side
Jan 02, 2019 (AFP)
Congress will feature the largest number of progressive lawmakers in many years, and they appear to be in no mood to appease a president who is standing firm on...
Bangladesh poll landslide raises democracy fears: analysts
Jan 01, 2019 (AFP)
Hasina's Awami League party extended its decade-long grip on power by winning an unprecedented 98 percent of seats while key opposition parties are now flounder...
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