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Israeli airforce reservists protest over legal reforms

Mar 06, 2023 (AFP)

In a letter sent to the chief of staff, 37 pilots threatened to not attend a training day due on Wednesday. "We will continue to serve the Jewish and democratic...

Bialiatski: rights champion in authoritarian Belarus

Mar 03, 2023 (AFP)

The 60-year-old founded Viasna, the country's most prominent rights group, soon after strongman Alexander Lukashenko became the first president of ex-Soviet Bel...

Erdogan says elections to be held May 14 despite Turkey quake

Mar 01, 2023 (AFP)

"(Turkish) people will do what is necessary on May 14," he told his ruling party lawmakers in the parliament in Ankara. The Turkish leader previously proposed h...

Turkish football fans in anti-government chants in quake anger

Feb 26, 2023 (AFP)

The protest, which took place during the match, follows that of fans from fellow Istanbul club Fenerbahe at their stadium on Saturday. "Government, resign!" was...

Hong Kong martial arts coach jailed for inciting subversion

Feb 24, 2023 (AFP)

Denis Wong, 60, was arrested in March 2022 in an undercover bust of his martial arts training hall where police said he and an assistant were teaching "combat t...

China says 'never interfered' in Canadian elections

Feb 19, 2023 (AFP)

A statement Friday afternoon from the Chinese consulate general in the western city of Vancouver accused Canadian media of "smearing and discrediting China" and...

Finland to hold NATO vote ahead of ratifications

Feb 17, 2023 (AFP)

Helsinki wants to get domestic approval for joining NATO clinched before the general election campaign starts in March, when parliament will be suspended. The b...

Turkey quake tests Erdogan's all-powerful rule

Feb 16, 2023 (AFP)

Five years on, an agonisingly slow response to a catastrophic quake has undermined that idea, boosting the opposition's case in polls planned for May, experts s...

Biden secures 100th US judge, blunting Trump's impact on bench

Feb 15, 2023 (AFP)

Under the US Constitution, presidents appoint Supreme Court justices and federal judges for life, with Congress' upper chamber confirming or rejecting the nomin...

US tech bosses subpoenaed in Republican hunt for liberal conspiracy

Feb 15, 2023 (AFP)

The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee wrote to the CEOs of Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft demanding numerous documents, including any White Ho...

Biden, Lula vow to defend democracy in Americas

Feb 11, 2023 (AFP)

"Both our nations' strong democracies have been tested," Biden told Lula, and "both in the United States and Brazil, democracy prevailed." Meeting in the Oval O...

'Shame on you!': Erdogan faces voter fury in quake zone

Feb 10, 2023 (AFP)

The earthquake that killed more than 21,000 people across Turkey and Syria came at one of the most politically sensitive moments of Erdogan's two-decade rule. T...

Deadly quake puts Erdogan under pressure in May polls

Feb 09, 2023 (AFP)

Just three months before the biggest test of his political career, a massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Turkey and Syria, killing more than 15,000 people. ...

US lawmakers clash over Biden's handling of Chinese balloon

Feb 06, 2023 (AFP)

With efforts to retrieve balloon debris continuing off the South Carolina coast one day after a US fighter jet downed the large airship, the incident sparked fi...

Scholar, lawmakers and journalist among Hong Kongers on trial

Feb 06, 2023 (AFP)

The defendants, who include some of the city's most prominent activists, face up to life in prison if convicted of "conspiracy to commit subversion" for involve...

Sri Lanka weighs 'failures' on independence milestone

Feb 04, 2023 (AFP)

Since the 1948 end of British rule, the island nation has spent much of its history at war with itself, including a decades-long Tamil separatist rebellion that...

US says Myanmar emergency extension prolongs 'illegitimate rule'

Feb 02, 2023 (AFP)

"The United States strongly opposes the Burma military regime's decision to extend the state of emergency, prolonging the military's illegitimate rule and the s...

Myanmar streets empty in protest on coup anniversary

Feb 01, 2023 (AFP)

Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military's power grab and bloody crackdown on dissent, which has sparked fighting across swathes of the country and tanked...

Voices from Myanmar's coup, two years on

Jan 31, 2023 (AFP)

From striking civil servants on the run to rebels holed up in the dense jungle, AFP talks to five people whose lives have been upended by the coup and the two y...

Myanmar junta prepares for poll, raising fears of more bloodshed

Jan 31, 2023 (AFP)

Observers also say the planned poll cannot be free and fair under the present circumstances, with one analyst characterising it as a mere "performance" aimed at...