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Hong Kong students skip classes to protest at 'pro-Beijing' appointment
Jan 20, 2016 (AFP)
Students protested on the campus of Hong Kong's leading university Wednesday after a pro-Beijing official was appointed to a senior role, as fears grow of incre...
European Commission puts rule of law in Poland under microscope
Jan 03, 2016 (AFP)
The European Union's powerful executive announced Sunday it would discuss the state of the rule of law in Poland after the country's hard-right government pushe...
Twitter restores access to politicians' deleted tweets
Dec 31, 2015 (AFP)
Twitter said Thursday it was restoring access to deleted tweets from politicians, saying it would help "bring more transparency to public dialogue." Earlier thi...
Myanmar activist jailed for satirical army Facebook post
Dec 28, 2015 (AFP)
A Myanmar court sentenced a female activist to six months in jail on Monday for a Facebook post satirising the powerful military, the latest crackdown against f...
Hong Kong student leader Wong 'expects jail'
Dec 22, 2015 (AFP)
Hong Kong student leader Joshua Wong said Tuesday he is preparing for a possible prison sentence next year, as another trial date was set in a string of cases h...
China rights lawyer gets suspended jail sentence: lawyer
Dec 22, 2015 (AFP)
One of China's most celebrated human rights lawyers was given a three-year suspended prison term on Tuesday in the latest clampdown on critics of the ruling Com...
Protesters rally ahead of controversial Hong Kong debate
Dec 16, 2015 (AFP)
Activists rallied Wednesday in Hong Kong as lawmakers prepared to start a highly anticipated debate over a copyright bill, which has been criticised by opponent...
Jeremy Corbyn Trump?
Dec 13, 2015 (UPI)
Donald Trump is rapidly becoming the Republican Party's equivalent of Britain's Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. The question is whether Trump's destructive pe...
Marine Le Pen: fiery but pragmatic, and defiant in defeat
Dec 13, 2015 (AFP)
A fiery orator but also a pragmatist, Marine Le Pen has steered France's far-right National Front (FN) from pariah status into the mainstream. Despite her party...
Controversial Hong Kong debate delayed as protests threatened
Dec 09, 2015 (AFP)
Pro-democracy legislators succeeded Wednesday in delaying a highly anticipated parliamentary debate over a new copyright bill in Hong Kong, which has been criti...
Thai junta chief says anti-graft students arrested for own safety
Dec 08, 2015 (AFP)
Dozens of student activists arrested while trying to protest against alleged army corruption were detained for their own safety, Thailand's junta chief said Tue...
Marine Le Pen and her niece set to lead far-right into new territory
Dec 04, 2015 (AFP)
The fiery leader of France's far-right, Marine Le Pen, looks set to take a decisive step Sunday towards winning control of a region for the first time, while he...
Peru ethnic group launches autonomous rule bid
Dec 01, 2015 (AFP)
The Wampis people of Peru's Amazon basin region have formed the country's first self-ruling native area to try to protect traditional lands from settlers, minin...
Canada's Beauty Queen stopped from attending China contest
Nov 26, 2015 (AFP)
Canada's Chinese-born Miss World contender was stuck in Hong Kong Thursday after being banned from taking a flight bound for mainland China, where the beauty pa...
Corbyn ally throws Mao's Little Red Book at UK's Osborne
Nov 25, 2015 (AFP)
Britain's Labour has been accused of lurching left since Jeremy Corbyn became leader, so when one of his key allies quoted Mao Zedong's Little Red Book in parli...
Fiji police probe 'plot' to destabilise government
Nov 24, 2015 (AFP)
Fiji's police chief said Tuesday his officers were investigating allegations of a plot to destabilise the government, refusing to deny it may have emanated from...
'Umbrella Soldiers' take seats in Hong Kong elections
Nov 23, 2015 (AFP)
Young supporters of Hong Kong's democracy movement, known as 'Umbrella Soldiers', took seats in the city's first vote since mass street protests -- but pro-Beij...
Hong Kong goes to polls in first vote since democracy protests
Nov 21, 2015 (AFP)
Hong Kong will go to the polls Sunday for the first time since huge pro-democracy protests gripped the city, in what is being seen as a key test of public senti...
Suu Kyi landslide leaves Myanmar ethnic parties behind
Nov 14, 2015 (AFP)
Myanmar's diverse ethnic minority parties were counting their losses Saturday after Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy party won a landslide victory in historic p...
Hong Kong democracy activists plans UN case over police 'torture'
Nov 11, 2015 (AFP)
A Hong Kong activist allegedly assaulted by police during last year's pro-democracy protests said Wednesday he would present his case to a United Nations tortur...
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