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Top Iraq court orders manual election recount
Jun 21, 2018 (AFP)
The recount due to suspicions of electoral fraud, however, would not significantly affect the overall outcome, according to experts on Iraqi politics. The court...
Brazil's strike chaos stirs military coup talk
May 31, 2018 (AFP)
Truckers launched their action 10 days ago, gumming up the food and fuel supply system across Latin America's biggest economy. Their protest began over rising f...
Facebook, Twitter tighten rules for political ads
May 24, 2018 (AFP)
The moves by the two social media firms come in response to criticism over their role in allowing disinformation to spread during the 2016 US election, in many ...
Trump can't block his critics on Twitter, judge rules
May 23, 2018 (AFP)
Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald said the blocking of Trump critics -- which prevents them from seeing and interacting with the president's tweets -- violated the fre...
Graft-busting journalist returns to new Malaysia
May 21, 2018 (AFP)
The British investigative journalist is now back in the country of her birth after being blacklisted for years, and being treated as a celebrity in a sign of th...
Lurid tale of bribery and murder looms anew for Malaysia's Najib
May 19, 2018 (AFP)
The lurid earlier affair centred on allegations that Malaysian officials took huge kickbacks in the 2002 purchase of Scorpene submarines from France when Najib ...
'Cash is king': The fall of Malaysia's disgraced first couple
May 18, 2018 (AFP)
Seemingly secure just a week ago, Najib Razak and his wife Rosmah Mansor face a tightening noose as a new government that unexpectedly won elections last week r...
UN calls on Iraq to probe election complaints
May 17, 2018 (AFP)
"The commission has to act expeditiously in order to seriously address all complaints," the UN's envoy to Iraq, Jan Kubis, said in a statement. Partial results ...
Iraq voters rebuke PM's party as rivals surge
May 14, 2018 (AFP)
According to partial official results obtained by AFP, the Marching Towards Reform alliance of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr and his communist allies was ahead in ...
Cleric who bloodied US and pro-Iran fighter frontrunners in Iraq vote
May 14, 2018 (AFP)
Both look set to play key roles in determining the next leader of their war-scarred nation after their rival political alliances appeared to surge at national p...
Malaysian opposition bets on 'tsunami' of Muslim support
May 08, 2018 (AFP)
The optimism has been triggered by the decision of 92-year-old former leader Mahathir Mohamad, a champion of the country's Muslim Malays, to run as the oppositi...
Armenian opposition leader calls for strike after losing PM vote
May 02, 2018 (AFP)
Pashinyan supporters have pledged to ramp up pressure on authorities to force the ruling Republican Party, which withheld support for the protest leader despite...
Trump, Russia and China media attacks 'threaten democracy'
Apr 25, 2018 (AFP)
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warned that a "climate of hatred and animosity" towards journalists combined with growing attempts to control the media pose a "...
Brazil's army chief warns of graft threat to democracy
Apr 19, 2018 (AFP)
The comment by General Eduardo Villas Boas was his second high-profile remark on the state of Brazil's democracy this month, going against an unwritten rule tha...
Major Cambridge Analytica role in Kenyan poll denied
Mar 21, 2018 (AFP)
The British firm at the centre of a scandal over the improper use of Facebook data in US President Donald Trump's election 2016 campaign, has also come under th...
Antigua and Barbuda voters head to polls after hurricane
Mar 21, 2018 (AFP)
Browne's Antigua Barbuda Labour Party, which has led the eastern Caribbean country since 2014, is widely expected to secure a second consecutive term. The prime...
Colombia to hold legislative vote free from guerrilla threat
Mar 09, 2018 (AFP)
The former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, are now a political party fielding candidates under a 2016 peace accord that ended Latin America's l...
Berlusconi's right-wing coalition ahead in Italy vote: exit polls
Mar 04, 2018 (AFP)
Berlusconi's grouping was expected to win between 31 and 41 percent of the vote, followed by the anti-establishment Five Star Movement with 29-32 percent, accor...
Coalition party wins Dutch part of hurricane-hit Saint Martin
Feb 27, 2018 (AFP)
The island held fresh polls following a political crisis triggered by a row with the Netherlands over aid in the wake of Hurricane Irma which blasted through th...
Local polls in Dutch part of hurricane-hit Saint Martin
Feb 26, 2018 (AFP)
In the streets of Philipsburg, where torn roofs, damaged cars and ruined buildings are a daily reminder of the devastation caused by the killer Hurricane Irma i...
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