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Meta to require political ads reveal AI altered images
Nov 08, 2023 (AFP)
The requirement will take effect globally at Facebook and Instagram at the start of next year, parent-company Meta said. "Advertisers who run ads about social i...
First fatalities reported in Panama unrest over mining contract
Nov 07, 2023 (AFP)
Authorities arrested the shooter in the Chame district 80 km (50 miles) west of Panama City, police said on X, formerly Twitter. Video circulating on social med...
Catalan spearatist leader Puigdemont faces fresh probe
Nov 06, 2023 (AFP)
This announcement comes as Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, is negotiating with Puigdemont's party on an amnesty law for pro-independence activists facing...
White House 2024: AI threatens to 'supercharge' disinformation
Nov 03, 2023 (AFP)
Campaigners on both sides of the US political aisle are harnessing advanced tools powered by artificial intelligence, which many tech experts view as a double-e...
Peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi smuggles message out of cell
Nov 01, 2023 (AFP)
In the message, read out in French by her daughter, Kiana Rahmani, and posted on the official Nobel website, the 51-year-old activist and journalist expressed "...
Senate confirms Jack Lew as new U.S. ambassador to Israel
Oct 31, 2023 (UPI)
"The Senate, I'm proud to say, has now taken an extremely important step in our support of Israel," said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. "With Isra...
Hong Kong security crackdown targets 'soft resistance' as news laws loom
Oct 25, 2023 (AFP)
The phrase has no clear definition nor is it included in the city's laws, but this week it appeared in a guilty verdict issued by a Hong Kong court for the firs...
Led by Donkeys: UK political agitators reaching millions
Oct 21, 2023 (AFP)
Founded by four friends in a pub in 2018, the collective's campaigns and stunts skewering politicians and spotlighting issues get millions of views online -- an...
Immigration, climate, cost of living swing Swiss elections
Oct 16, 2023 (AFP)
The Swiss are voting for both houses of parliament, with all 200 seats in the lower chamber and all 46 in the upper house up for grabs. At the last election in ...
Thousands protest across Middle East in support of Palestinians
Oct 13, 2023 (AFP)
"No to the occupation! No to America!" chanted demonstrators gathered in central Baghdad after Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr called for a protest "in support of Ga...
Prices, crime, environment: key issues in New Zealand's election
Oct 12, 2023 (AFP)
According to polls, cost-of-living, crime and the environment are among the key issues for voters. - Cost-of-living - Prices at the supermarket check-out and pe...
Taiwan leader vows island will be democratic 'for generations'
Oct 10, 2023 (AFP)
She also stressed that "peace is the only option" in relations with China, which claims the self-ruled island as its territory, and has in recent years stepped ...
Hong Kong man jailed for importing 'seditious' children's books
Oct 06, 2023 (AFP)
Following massive democracy protests in the Chinese city in 2019, authorities have revived a colonial-era sedition offence to jail dozens of residents, which cr...
Five Nobel Peace laureates who won from jail
Oct 06, 2023 (AFP)
Honoured on Friday for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran, the 51-year-old journalist and activist has campaigned against the mandatory hijab for...
Iran women's activist Narges Mohammadi wins peace Nobel
Oct 06, 2023 (AFP)
Mohammadi's award comes after a wave of protests swept Iran following the death in custody a year ago of a young Iranian Kurd, Mahsa Amini, arrested for violati...
China congratulates pro-Beijing winner of Maldives election
Oct 02, 2023 (AFP)
China's foreign ministry said the country "respects the choice of the Maldivian people and congratulates President-elect Mohamed Muizzu". "China is willing to w...
Brazil's Lula leaves hospital two days after hip operation
Oct 01, 2023 (AFP)
Lula, 77, "is at the Alvorada Palace" where he will continue his recovery, the president's office told AFP. The veteran leftist leader later posted on X, former...
Pro-China winner vows to unite Maldives, releases ex-leader
Oct 01, 2023 (AFP)
Bowing to Muizzu's request, outgoing president Ibrahim Mohamed Solih ordered the transfer of his predecessor Abdulla Yameen from a high-security prison island t...
Muizzu: Maldives election's pro-China frontrunner
Sep 30, 2023 (AFP)
Mohamed Muizzu, a 45-year-old civil engineer by training, was an unlikely candidate after serving as construction minister in the government of his mentor Abdul...
In farewell speech, Gen. Mark Milley says military serves Constitution, not despots
Sep 29, 2023 (UPI)
His comments come after former President Donald Trump recently suggested that a president has total, unchecked power and that Milley is a traitor worthy of exec...
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