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Spain's Catalonia holds key vote under cloud of pandemic
AFP, Published on 14/02/2021
» BARCELONA: Catalonia voted Sunday in an election overshadowed by the pandemic and which Madrid hopes will unseat the region's ruling separatists more than three years after a failed bid to break away from Spain.
Sri Lanka MPs clash with president over Easter attacks probe
AFP, Published on 09/06/2019
» COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's parliament warned President Maithripala Sirisena not to scuttle a controversial investigation into security lapses before the Easter suicide bombings, the Speaker's office said Sunday.
Sri Lanka president vows to block Easter attacks probe
AFP, Published on 08/06/2019
» COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's president has told his cabinet that he will not cooperate with a parliamentary investigation into security lapses leading to the Easter suicide bombings, official sources said Saturday.
Xi's here to stay: China leader tipped to outstay term
AFP, Published on 09/08/2016
» BEIJING - Already China's most powerful leader in decades, President Xi Jinping will probably seek to extend his term to more than 10 years, analysts say, the first Communist Party chief to do so since Deng Xiaoping.
China to chart Communist Party future amid crackdowns
AFP, Published on 26/07/2016
» BEIJING - China's Communist rulers will gather in October to discuss their party's future, state media said Tuesday, as President Xi Jinping tightens controls over the immensely powerful organisation.
Xi move on faction suggests China elite struggle: experts
AFP, Published on 29/04/2016
» BEIJING - Allies of Chinese President Xi Jinping are moving against a Communist organisation that is the power base of Premier Li Keqiang, in what analysts say may be a sign of faction-fighting at the top of the ruling party.
China was largest market for Panama Papers law firm: ICIJ
AFP, Published on 07/04/2016
» BEIJING - Nearly a third of the business of Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers scandal, came from its offices in Hong Kong and China, reports say, making the Asian giant its biggest market.
African Union to send 5,000-strong force to Burundi
AFP, Published on 19/12/2015
» ADDIS ABABA - The African Union will send a 5,000 strong force to stop violence in troubled Burundi, giving Bujumbura a four-day deadline to agree, 54-member bloc said in a statement.
How the mighty are fallen: selfies and smiles in Zhou village
AFP, Published on 12/06/2015
» XIQIANTOU (CHINA) - He wielded enormous power as China's fearsome security chief, but at Zhou Yongkang's ancestral village, his relatives' tombs are now backdrops for selfies and curious visitors crush the hedges around the family home.
Zhou Yongkang: the 'tiger' who brought about his own downfall
AFP, Published on 11/06/2015
» BEIJING - Former top Communist Zhou Yongkang, who rose through China's state oil industry to become the country's internal security chief, amassed so much power that he brought about his own downfall, according to analysts.