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22 May 2025 by AFP
Bangladesh's interim government 'undermining' freedoms: rights group Human Rights Watch strongly criticised Bangladesh's interim government on Thursday, warning that it risked "undermining fundamental freedoms" through measures including its ban on the former ruling party. The South Asian nation of [...]
22 May 2025 by AFP
Sweden to charge jihadist over Jordanian pilot burnt to death in Syria Prosecutors said Thursday they plan to indict a convicted Swedish jihadist on charges including the 2015 killing of a Jordanian pilot burned to death in a cage in Syria. Sweden's Prosecution Authority said in a statement it planne [...]
22 May 2025 by AFP
DR Congo ex-leader Kabila's immunity on line over plot claims When Joseph Kabila stepped aside for Felix Tshisekedi in 2019, it was hailed as the Democratic Republic of Congo's first peaceful handover of power since independence from Belgium. But on Thursday Kabila faces a vote in the Senate [...]
22 May 2025 by AFP
DR Congo Senate to debate immunity of ex-leader accused of 'treason' The Democratic Republic of Congo's Senate will on Thursday debate lifting the immunity of ex-president Joseph Kabila, who the government accuses of supporting a Rwanda-backed militia in the mineral-rich east. A vote in favour coul [...]
21 May 2025 by AFP
Trump ambushes S. African president over 'genocide' accusation President Donald Trump ambushed South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday by playing him a video that he claimed proved genocide is being committed against white people, driving farmers to flee to the United States. T [...]
21 May 2025 by AFP
Trump plays video in Ramaphosa meeting to back 'genocide' claims US President Donald Trump surprised his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa during a White House meeting Wednesday by playing him a video designed to back baseless claims of a white "genocide." Trump asked staff members to p [...]
21 May 2025 by AFP
Trump displays DRC visual as proof of South African 'genocide' US President Donald Trump brandished a stack of printed articles at the White House Wednesday that he claimed documented a genocide taking place against white people in South Africa. Mixed into the deck of papers he unveiled befor [...]
21 May 2025 by AFP
Trump ambushes South African president with 'genocide' accusation President Donald Trump ambushed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday by playing him a video that he claimed proved genocide is being committed against white people, driving farmers to flee to the United States. The [...]
21 May 2025 by AFP
S.Africa's Ramaphosa woos Trump, Musk after tensions South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will seek to reset ties with Donald Trump and Elon Musk Wednesday after Washington's unfounded claims of "genocide" against white Afrikaners sent relations plunging. Ramaphosa arrived at the [...]
21 May 2025 by AFP
Rubio steers clear of branding Putin 'war criminal' US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday steered clear of calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a "war criminal," saying the priority was negotiations to end the Ukraine conflict. In a fiery congressional hearing, Democra [...]
21 May 2025 by AFP
Algeria, France in 'worst crisis' since independence: French historian Algeria and France are currently experiencing their worst crisis since the former French colony won independence in 1962, said the author of a landmark report on France's legacy in the north African nation. It will take painstakin [...]
21 May 2025 by AFP
South Africa's Ramaphosa to meet Trump amid tensions over 'genocide' claim South African President Cyril Ramaphosa meets Donald Trump on Wednesday amid tensions over Washington's resettlement of white Afrikaners that the US president claims are the victims of "genocide." The Trump administration's admiss [...]
20 May 2025 by AFP
Syrians hope for justice, but face long road ahead After searching for years for his son and brothers following their arrest and disappearance by Bashar al-Assad's forces, Syrian real estate broker Maher al-Ton hopes he may finally get justice under the new authorities. Last week, [...]
20 May 2025 by AFP
Hungarian parliament approves leaving ICC Hungary's parliament on Tuesday approved leaving the International Criminal Court, which it calls "politically motivated", becoming the third country after Burundi and the Philippines to take such a step. Prime Minister Viktor Orb [...]
20 May 2025 by AFP
Cambodian students re-enact bloody Khmer Rouge crimes Cambodian students wearing all black and wielding bamboo clubs and wooden rifles staged a dramatic re-enactment on Tuesday of a genocide that killed two million people in the 1970s. A quarter of Cambodia's population died of starv [...]
19 May 2025 by AFP
Microsoft strikes deal with Musk to host Grok AI Microsoft on Monday said its cloud servers will now host Grok from Elon Musk's xAI, days after the chatbot went off the rails with talk of "white genocide" in South Africa. Musk told an event hosted by Microsoft that his company's [...]
19 May 2025 by AFP
Palestinian hospital chief calls for pressure on Israel An East Jerusalem hospital chief told AFP on Monday that Gaza was in a "catastrophic" state after weeks of a complete blockade of humanitarian aid and called on countries to act to end the suffering of civilians. Fadi Atrash, chie [...]
19 May 2025 by AFP
Amnesty International vows to keep up Russia right work despite ban Amnesty International said Monday that it would keep up investigations on Russia despite Moscow declaring the rights group an "undesirable organisation", effectively banning its operations and exposing supporters to prosecution. " [...]
19 May 2025 by AFP
France closes probe against widow of Rwanda ex-leader: sources French judicial authorities have closed an investigation against the widow of Rwanda's former president Juvenal Habyarimana into claims she played a role in the country's 1994 genocide, without pressing any charges against her, se [...]