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Papers reveal brainwashing, not job training, at China camps
Associated Press, Published on 25/11/2019
» A classified blueprint shows that the detention camps that hold more than a million ethnic minorities in China's far west are really ideological and behavioural re-education centres to rewire their language and thinking.
Myanmar rejects court probe into Rohingya crime
Associated Press, Published on 17/11/2019
» YANGON: Myanmar's government rejected the International Criminal Court's decision to allow prosecutors to open an investigation into crimes committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
Cambodian judge orders new probe in reporters' spying case
Associated Press, Published on 03/10/2019
» PHNOM PENH: A court on Thursday ordered a new investigation and postponed its ruling in the espionage trial of two journalists who had formerly worked for a US government-backed radio station.
Trump weighs declaring national emergency
Associated Press, Published on 11/01/2019
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump, facing the prospect within days of the longest US government shutdown in history, was considering declaring a national emergency that would likely escalate a policy dispute with Democrats over his proposed US-Mexico border wall into a court test of presidential power.
Duterte faces new 'crimes against humanity' complaint
Associated Press, Published on 28/08/2018
» MANILA: Relatives of several people slain in the Philippine president's anti-drug campaign asked the International Criminal Court on Tuesday to prosecute him for alleged crimes against humanity, in the second such request for a ruling on thousands of deaths that have occurred during the crackdown.
Investigators: Russian missile downed MH17
Associated Press, Published on 24/05/2018
» BUNNIK, Netherlands: Detailed analysis of video and photos has unequivocally established that the Buk missile that brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine nearly four years ago came from a Russia-based military unit, an international team of investigators said Thursday.
Indonesia faces challenge to seizure of yacht wanted by US
Associated Press, Published on 19/03/2018
» JAKARTA: Indonesian police say a luxury yacht seized as part of a US probe into the alleged multibillion-dollar theft of funds from a Malaysian state investment company has not been handed over to the US because of a legal challenge from its owner.
Kenya court upholds Kenyatta's win in repeat election
Associated Press, Published on 20/11/2017
» NAIROBI: Kenya's Supreme Court on Monday upheld President Uhuru Kenyatta's re-election in a repeat vote that the opposition boycotted while saying electoral reforms had not been made. The decision appeared to put an end to a months-long political drama never before seen in Africa that has left dozens dead.
Trump urges death penalty for New York terrorism
Associated Press, Published on 03/11/2017
» WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Thursday backed away from his threat to send the suspect in the New York bike path attack to Guantanamo Bay, acknowledging in an early morning tweet that the military judicial process at the Cuban detention centre takes longer than the civilian federal court system.
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong freed on bail
Associated Press, Published on 25/10/2017
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong's highest court freed pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong and Nathan Law on bail Tuesday pending an appeal of their prison sentences after they were convicted of sparking massive protests in 2014.