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500 US troops deploy in Chicago ahead of court hearing
AFP, Published on 09/10/2025
» CHICAGO - Five hundred US troops deployed in the Chicago area on Thursday as part of President Donald Trump's hardline immigration crackdown, despite strenuous objections of local leaders seeking a judge's order to block the mobilisation.
Turkey court tries case that could oust opposition leadership
AFP, Published on 15/09/2025
» ANKARA - An Ankara court opened a hearing on Monday into alleged vote buying that could upend the leadership of Turkey's main opposition CHP party, which has been battling a growing array of legal challenges.
Nepal’s young protesters find an unlikely partner: the army
New York Times, Published on 11/09/2025
» KATHMANDU — When protesters in Nepal torched parliament, the Supreme Court and the homes of five former prime ministers on Tuesday, no one seemed to be in charge of a country in anarchy. Then, that night, Gen Ashok Raj Sigdel, the chief of the Nepali army, appeared in a short video, urging calm in the streets.
Nepal army patrols after deadly protests oust PM
AFP, Published on 10/09/2025
» KATHMANDU - Nepali soldiers patrolled the streets of Kathmandu on Wednesday, seeking to restore order after protesters set parliament ablaze and forced the prime minister to quit in the worst violence to hit the Himalayan nation in two decades.
Indonesians want opposition check on Prabowo power, survey says
Published on 08/09/2025
» A survey conducted shortly before Indonesia saw massive protests over lawmakers’ perks found a majority of people want an opposition presence in parliament, underscoring public unease about the dominance of President Prabowo Subianto’s coalition.
Immigration opposition fuels English flag frenzy
AFP, Published on 04/09/2025
» LONDON - Bitter debate about immigration in the United Kingdom has triggered a new trend of flying English and British flags in a vivid show of patriotism spearheaded in part by far-right figures.
Thousands in Australia rally against immigration, govt condemns rally
Published on 31/08/2025
» SYDNEY - Thousands of Australians joined anti-immigration rallies across the country on Sunday that the centre-left government condemned, saying they sought to spread hate and were linked to neo-Nazis.
Leading political figure shot dead in Ukraine
AFP, Published on 30/08/2025
» KYIV - A former Ukrainian speaker of parliament who was a leading figure in the country’s pro-European protest movements in 2004 and 2014 was shot dead on Saturday in western Ukraine, officials said.
Hope and hate: how migrant influx has changed Germany
AFP, Published on 29/08/2025
» BERLIN — Men sit outside shisha bars and women in hijabs push strollers past Middle Eastern restaurants and pastry shops in Berlin's Sonnenallee, a wide avenue which has become a symbol of how much Germany has changed in the last decade.
Royal pardons free lese majeste convicts, protesters
News, Published on 29/08/2025
» Several prisoners jailed for violating the lese majeste law and other legal codes related to street protests were released on Wednesday after receiving royal pardons earlier this year, according to a source at the Corrections Department.