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Pro-Iran parties win big in Iraq provincial vote: results
Dec 28, 2023 (AFP)
The vote was the first held in a decade and took place amid widespread political apathy in the oil-rich country, which is recovering from years of conflict and ...
Russian pro-peace candidate, barred from vote, will create own party
Dec 27, 2023 (AFP)
The vote in March is expected to easily hand a fifth term to Russian President Vladimir Putin, with mostly Kremlin-friendly candidates allowed to run. Russia's ...
Taiwan detains one for 'fabricated' election polls
Dec 23, 2023 (AFP)
Democratic Taiwan will hold presidential and parliamentary elections in January, which will be closely watched from Beijing to Washington as results could shape...
Hong Kong court refuses to drop Jimmy Lai sedition charge
Dec 22, 2023 (AFP)
The trial began Monday for Lai, who is charged with "collusion" with foreign forces under a Beijing-imposed national security law, a charge that carries a poten...
Hong Kong unionist jailed for taking sister's phone, laptop before search
Dec 21, 2023 (AFP)
The defendant Marilyn Tang, 63, and her elder sister Elizabeth, were both pioneers in Hong Kong's pro-democracy union movement and active since the 1980s. Eliza...
Senate approves remaining military promotions blocked by Sen. Tuberville
Dec 20, 2023 (UPI)
Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama, had held up the promotions of more than 400 service members since early last year over the Pentagon's policy to reimburse...
Pro-Iran parties ahead in Iraq provincial vote
Dec 19, 2023 (AFP)
Monday's vote was the first held in a decade and took place amid widespread political apathy in the oil-rich country, which is recovering from years of conflict...
Tycoon Jimmy Lai's Hong Kong trial starts as US, UK urge his release
Dec 18, 2023 (AFP)
Lai, 76, is accused of "collusion" with foreign forces under a sweeping national security law that Beijing imposed on the finance hub in 2020. He is the founder...
Iraqis vote in first provincial elections in a decade
Dec 18, 2023 (AFP)
The vote comes at a time of widespread political apathy and disillusionment in the oil-rich country of 43 million that is still recovering from years of war and...
Iraqis vote in first provincial elections for a decade
Dec 18, 2023 (AFP)
The vote will take place with disillusionment widespread among the country's 43 million inhabitants, with endemic corruption eating away at the oil-rich nation....
Hong Kong starts trial of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai
Dec 17, 2023 (AFP)
Lai, 76, founded the now-shuttered Chinese-language tabloid Apple Daily, which often bashed Beijing and supported the huge protest movement that roiled Hong Kon...
GOP impeachment probe 'falling apart,' Sen. Lindsey Graham says
Dec 17, 2023 (UPI)
"If there were a smoking gun, I think we'd be talking about it," Graham said Sunday on NBC News' Meet The Press, adding "I'm not worried about impeaching the pr...
Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai to go on trial
Dec 16, 2023 (AFP)
Lai, who is 76, is charged with several counts of "colluding with foreign forces" -- a crime under a national security law imposed on Hong Kong by Beijing in 20...
UK painter's pop art highlights 'silencing' of Hong Kong youth
Dec 16, 2023 (AFP)
Lever, 54, who spent most of his life in Hong Kong before deciding to leave in 2022 in the wake of a sweeping national security law introduced by Beijing, speci...
'Never surrender': Hong Kong democracy leader's memoir protests censorship
Dec 15, 2023 (AFP)
"Confessions of a Bell Toller" is Chu's account of a life spent helping the underprivileged and struggling against China's authoritarian rule, including by co-o...
Iraq regional vote another chance to entrench power; Speaker election delayed
Dec 14, 2023 (AFP)
Experts warn that, in an oil-rich country riven by graft, the councils will only serve to entrench Iraq's ruling elite, especially powerful pro-Iran groups. Par...
US, UK hit out at Hong Kong bounty offers for 5 wanted activists
Dec 14, 2023 (AFP)
The city's authorities said the five wanted individuals, all now living abroad, would be pursued "till the end" as they offered HK$1,000,000 ($128,000) bounties...
Swiss lawmakers set to elect defence minister as president
Dec 13, 2023 (AFP)
Seats in the seven-member government, known as the Federal Council, are distributed among Switzerland's four main parties, and rarely shift hands. But with curr...
Egypt's polls close with Sisi heading for a third term as president
Dec 12, 2023 (UPI)
Sisi, the 69-year-old former army general who initially seized power in a 2013 coup, is facing no serious challengers and looks certain to extend his reign unti...
Hong Kong election sees lowest-ever turnout with dissent banned
Dec 11, 2023 (AFP)
The city last held district council elections at the peak of huge, sometimes violent, pro-democracy protests in 2019, recording a historic-high 71 percent turno...
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