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Iraq sets up top body to tackle 'major' corruption cases
Nov 16, 2022 (AFP)
Corruption, mismanagement and nepotism are rife in Iraq where they have caused widespread public anger. Days after Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani was ap...
Macron urges strong response to Iran crackdown on 'revolution'
Nov 14, 2022 (AFP)
Macron angered Iranian officials on Friday by hosting four prominent women who have strongly supported the two months of protests, which have become the biggest...
At COP27, hundreds march behind hunger striker's sister
Nov 12, 2022 (AFP)
Jailed Egyptian dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah's sister, Sanaa Seif, who is at the summit campaigning for her brother's release, marched in the front line with hun...
UN chief tells Myanmar junta to get democracy 'back on track'
Nov 12, 2022 (AFP)
Myanmar has spiralled into bloody conflict since the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government in February last year, with thousands killed. The es...
Turkish journalist on Erdogan's wishlist worries about future in Sweden
Nov 11, 2022 (AFP)
Bulent Kenes, the former editor-in-chief of the Zaman daily, is the only person President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has identified by name among the dozens Ankara wa...
Iran army says awaiting orders to tackle Amini protests
Nov 10, 2022 (AFP)
Street violence flared across Iran after the 22-year-old Amini died on September 16, following her arrest by the morality police for allegedly flouting the Isla...
Egypt rights activists in COP27 spotlight worry about day after
Nov 09, 2022 (AFP)
With little promise of speedy united action to tackle the climate crisis, many headlines out of COP27 have focussed on the plight of Egyptian activists, most pr...
Republican 'red wave' hopes fizzle in US midterm vote
Nov 09, 2022 (AFP)
Tuesday's election saw a clearer verdict in races for states' governors with rising Republican star Ron DeSantis winning by a crushing margin in Florida, cement...
China playing 'aggressive games' with Canada democracy: Trudeau
Nov 08, 2022 (AFP)
His comments came after local broadcaster Global News reported that Beijing had funded a "clandestine network" of candidates in a recent ballot, and days after ...
Pressure mounts on Egypt to release hunger-striking dissident
Nov 08, 2022 (AFP)
After a seven-month stint during which he consumed only "100 calories a day", the 40-year-old British-Egyptian dissident stopped drinking water on Sunday as wor...
Jailed Egypt dissident's death in 'no one's interest', sister says
Nov 07, 2022 (AFP)
Following a seven-month hunger strike during which he only had 100 calories per day, Abdel Fattah stopped drinking water on Sunday to coincide with the opening ...
Tough choices as Brazil's Lula gets down to business
Nov 07, 2022 (AFP)
The political horse-trading of the transition period now starts in earnest for the veteran leftist, who will be inaugurated for a third term on January 1, facin...
Germany criticises Egypt on human rights ahead of COP27
Nov 06, 2022 (AFP)
The German government's human rights commissioner, Luise Amtsberg, urged summit host Egypt to release jailed dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah, currently on hunger st...
G7 denounces 'brutal' Iran protest crackdown
Nov 04, 2022 (AFP)
"We further condemn the brutal and disproportionate use of force against peaceful protesters," the ministers said in a statement after two days of talks in the ...
Blinken asks Egypt for rights progress as dissident fears for life
Nov 03, 2022 (AFP)
Rights groups estimate that some 60,000 political prisoners are behind bars in Egypt, which starting next week will welcome more than 90 world leaders including...
Family of jailed Egypt dissident warn he could die during climate meet
Nov 03, 2022 (AFP)
Abdel Fattah is on hunger strike and his relatives warned that if he is not released during the summit, he will probably die in prison as he is due to stop drin...
Nobel laureates urge Egypt to release jailed dissident
Nov 02, 2022 (AFP)
Abdel Fattah, a major figure in the 2011 revolt that toppled longtime president Hosni Mubarak, is currently serving a five-year sentence for "broadcasting false...
Brazil's Bolsonaro still silent on election loss to Lula
Nov 01, 2022 (AFP)
Twenty-four hours after the close of voting in Sunday's deeply polarizing runoff election, Bolsonaro had still not recognized the outcome -- raising fears he co...
Brazil's Lula finds quick welcome and likely ally in Biden
Nov 01, 2022 (AFP)
Biden, who was joined by several other Western leaders, was seeking to preempt any anti-democratic moves by incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, who himself took 38 days t...
Brazil protests mount as Bolsonaro mum on election loss
Nov 01, 2022 (AFP)
Thirty-six hours after official results showed he had lost Sunday's presidential run-off with only 1.8 percentage points, Bolsonaro has yet to speak, fanning co...
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