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Australia expresses 'outrage' to China over writer's suspended death sentence
Feb 06, 2024 (AFP)
Yang was sentenced to death on Monday with a two-year suspended execution, and had all of his property confiscated, the Chinese foreign ministry said. The Beiji...
Meta urged to update rules after fake Biden post
Feb 05, 2024 (AFP)
A video of Biden voting with his adult granddaughter, manipulated to falsely appear that he inappropriately touched her chest, went viral last year. It was repo...
Schumer says Senate to vote on Ukraine, border security bill next week
Feb 01, 2024 (UPI)
Schumer said he plans to introduce the bill this weekend and schedule the first vote for Wednesday, giving senators a chance to pass it before they leave for th...
US defense chief apologizes for concealing cancer hospitalization
Feb 01, 2024 (AFP)
"I should have told the president about my cancer diagnosis," he told a press conference. "I have apologized directly to President Biden." Austin effectively va...
U.S., Britain, Australia mark 3rd anniversary of Myanmar coup with sanctions
Feb 01, 2024 (UPI)
London unveiled its sanctions Thursday, blacklisting two identified entities tied to the Myanmar Security Forces on accusations of repressing the Myanmar citize...
Hong Kong convicts four over 2019 legislature storming
Feb 01, 2024 (AFP)
It was the most violent episode in the initial stage of the huge protests that upended the financial hub that year, with Beijing later imposing a sweeping natio...
EU 'concerned' over Hong Kong's new security law proposal
Jan 31, 2024 (AFP)
City leader John Lee on Tuesday unveiled a legislative proposal that would introduce new categories of security crimes -- on top of an existing national securit...
UN expert concerned evidence against HK tycoon Lai 'obtained through torture'
Jan 31, 2024 (AFP)
Jill Edwards, the UN special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, said she had written to the authorities in China calling for...
From placards to guns: Myanmar's democracy protesters battle junta
Jan 30, 2024 (AFP)
Last month some of those same protesters faced off against the military again -- but this time they were operating a mortar in northern Shan state, firing round...
Spain MPs reject Catalan amnesty bill in blow for PM
Jan 30, 2024 (AFP)
The bill will now be sent back to a parliamentary commission in a major setback for Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez that highlights the fragility of his ...
Hong Kong top court reinstates Tiananmen activist's conviction
Jan 25, 2024 (AFP)
Activist Chow Hang-tung is a former leader of the now-disbanded Hong Kong Alliance, which had organised an annual candlelight vigil in Hong Kong to mourn the vi...
Chinese man convicted in US of threatening democracy activist
Jan 25, 2024 (AFP)
Xiaolei Wu, 26, faces up to five years in prison for cyberstalking and a maximum of five years in prison for making threatening communications. Sentencing has b...
Jan. 6 role-play film 'War Game' brings 'terrifying' warning to Sundance
Jan 23, 2024 (AFP)
The scene is from "War Game," a new documentary premiering at the Sundance film festival on Tuesday in which real former government and military officials take ...
China's rights record in spotlight at UN
Jan 22, 2024 (AFP)
Beijing is likely to face intense scrutiny, especially from Western countries, during its regular Universal Periodic Review (UPR) -- an examination of all 193 U...
UN experts want charges against HK tycoon Lai dropped
Jan 22, 2024 (AFP)
Lai pleaded not guilty on January 2 to "sedition" and "collusion" charges in a high-profile national security trial that could see him jailed for life. The char...
Delayed Solomons election set for April 17
Jan 22, 2024 (AFP)
Veteran pro-China prime minister Manasseh Sogavare is seeking reelection and is already campaigning on a platform of shifting alliances further from the West to...
China rights record in spotlight at UN
Jan 22, 2024 (AFP)
Beijing is likely to face intense scrutiny, especially from Western countries, during its regular Universal Periodic Review (UPR) -- a rights record examination...
Israel surges to 6th place on list of nations with jailed journalists in 2023
Jan 19, 2024 (UPI)
The 2023 prison census report, published Thursday by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, identified China, Myanmar, Belarus, Russia, and Vietna...
Report alleges France's far-right leader had racist Twitter account
Jan 18, 2024 (AFP)
The allegations against the 28-year-old president of the National Rally (RN) party were made in an investigative report to be shown on the France 2 channel on T...
Coal miner's son, thorn in China's side: Taiwan's new president-elect
Jan 14, 2024 (AFP)
The 64-year-old Harvard graduate rode to victory in Saturday's election on the promise that he would defend Taiwan's democracy and resist Beijing's claims on th...
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