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Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activists released on bail
Oct 24, 2017 (AFP)
A defiant Wong said the activists stood ready to face what he called "suppression by an authoritarian regime" as he stood alongside Law outside the Court of Fin...
'Jack Bauer', 'Japanese Macron': Colourful candidates in Japan vote
Oct 19, 2017 (AFP)
- Yukio Edano - Edano, leader of the new centre-left Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, won fame as chief cabinet secretary during the country's 2011 tsu...
US lawmakers move to regulate online political ads
Oct 19, 2017 (AFP)
"First and foremost this is an issue of national security -- Russia attacked us and will continue to use different tactics to undermine our democracy and divide...
Abe on course for landslide win in Japan vote: poll
Oct 16, 2017 (AFP)
Abe's conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is projected to win as many as 303 of the 465 seats up for grabs in the October 22 election, according to a po...
Netanyahu, Israeli police face off over graft probe
Oct 15, 2017 (AFP)
Netanyahu late Saturday lashed out at the police on his Facebook page over leaks to the Israeli media related to the graft investigation. That prompted a stern ...
Japan's Koike pins hopes on tax, nuclear to unseat Abe
Oct 06, 2017 (AFP)
Koike, who has shaken up the sleepy world of Japanese politics with her new Party of Hope, aims to distinguish herself from Abe with her vow to phase out nuclea...
Facebook beefing up team to thwart election manipulation
Oct 03, 2017 (AFP)
The announcement came as the leading social network turned over to Congress some 3,000 Russia-linked ads that appeared to use hot-button issues to turn people a...
Puerto Rico's new migration to Florida could turn state Democratic
Oct 02, 2017 (AFP)
That's how it look for Franchesca Rivera, a 32-year-old schoolteacher who teaches in Aibonito, a town in the center of Puerto Rico that has been destroyed by th...
Tennis: Heartbroken Nadal 'wants to cry' over Catalan vote
Oct 02, 2017 (AFP)
Sunday's plebiscite was organised under the threat of reprisals and criminal charges but thousands of Catalans stood in defiance of the central government in Ma...
Social media and democracy: optimism fades as fears rise
Oct 01, 2017 (AFP)
Today, the tables have turned as fears grow over how social media may have been manipulated to disrupt the US election, and over how authoritarian governments a...
Hong Kong democracy rally marks China national day
Oct 01, 2017 (AFP)
Emotions have been running high in the semi-autonomous city since protests in 2014 calling for Beijing to grant fully free leadership elections. But the mass de...
Marine Le Pen's top aide quits over far-right infighting on Europe
Sep 21, 2017 (AFP)
Florian Philippot, the party's vice-president who spearheaded the drive to soften the party's image among voters, announced his departure on France 2 television...
Veteran Hong Kong democracy activist cleared of misconduct
Jul 31, 2017 (AFP)
Leung Kwok-hung -- known locally as "Long Hair" -- is a veteran activist from the League of Social Democrats, and had been charged by the city's corruption bure...
Dark days for China's democracy dream
Jul 19, 2017 (AFP)
The world had not heard from Nobel laureate Liu since he was jailed in 2009 for writing a petition calling for political reform, but he remained an influential ...
Mongolians vote in their first presidential runoff
Jul 06, 2017 (AFP)
Businessman and judoka Khaltmaa Battulga of the opposition Democratic Party (DP), who led the first round, faces parliament speaker Mieygombo Enkhbold of the ru...
Marine Le Pen charged over EU funding scandal
Jun 30, 2017 (AFP)
Rodolphe Bosselut said Le Pen had been summoned by investigating magistrates in Paris and that they had, "as expected, charged her", adding that she would appea...
Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong detained by police
Jun 28, 2017 (AFP)
Wong was among around 30 protesters who had staged a three-hour sit-in at a harbourfront statue and were led away into police vans. Xi's visit this week marks 2...
Marine Le Pen to meet judges over party funding claims: AFP
Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)
"The meeting has already been arranged," said Le Pen, who had refused to answer any questions over the accusations while she was running in this year's presiden...
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen wins seat in French parliament: party
Jun 18, 2017 (AFP)
The number of lawmakers, if confirmed, would be too small to form a parliamentary group which would give the FN a role in setting the agenda and win positions o...
Macron party readies for parliamentary assault
Jun 10, 2017 (AFP)
Macron swept away far-right candidate Marine Le Pen to win the presidency on May 7, but has only achieved half the job. Macron's Republique en Marche (Republic ...
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