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Facebook shuts Uganda accounts ahead of vote
AFP, Published on 11/01/2021
» KAMPALA: Facebook has shut a slew of accounts belonging to Ugandan government officials accused of seeking to manipulate public debate ahead of elections Thursday, the internet giant told AFP on Monday.
Boko Haram: Profile of a jihadist threat
AFP, Published on 22/02/2018
» LAGOS - Nigeria's Boko Haram, suspected of another mass kidnapping of school girls, started out as an Islamic anti-corruption group but mutated into an IS affiliate waging a lethal insurgency.
War, conflict fuel arms imports to Middle East, Asia: study
AFP, Published on 12/03/2018
» STOCKHOLM - Weapons imports to the Middle East and Asia have boomed over the past five years, fuelled by war and tensions in those regions, a new study showed on Monday.
LGBTI discrimination 'still prevalent'
News, Patpon Sabpaitoon, Published on 27/03/2018
» While Thailand has become more tolerant towards the LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) community, it still has significant level of discrimination and exclusion in various forms, according to a new World Bank report.
Facebook apologises for Myanmar lapses
AFP, Published on 06/04/2018
» YANGON: Facebook apologised on Friday to Myanmar civil society groups that took issue with Mark Zuckerberg's defence of the platform's record on curbing the hate speech roiling the country.
Violent deaths overshadow Nicaragua crisis talks
AFP, Published on 17/06/2018
» MANAGUA - At least eight people were killed Saturday in Managua, police sources said, raising to 178 the number of deaths in anti-government unrest that began two months ago in Nicaragua.
Thousands march to back Nicaragua bishops after Ortega attacks
AFP, Published on 29/07/2018
» MANAGUA - Thousands of Nicaraguans marched through their capital on Saturday in a show of support for the country's bishops whom President Daniel Ortega has accused of aiding an attempted "coup" against him.
Acquittal of Suchart upheld
News, Post Reporters, Published on 29/08/2018
» The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a verdict to acquit former Bangkok police chief Pol Lt Gen Suchart Mueankaew of malfeasance in connection with the fatal dispersal of anti-Thaksin demonstrators at the parliament in 2008.
Myanmar 'unwilling to probe Rohingya abuse, UN must act'
AFP, Published on 09/10/2018
» Myanmar is "unable and unwilling" to investigate its abuses against Rohingya Muslims, a UN rights envoy has said, bolstering calls for the country's generals to be hauled before an international court.
Seven dead as Colombia hit with wave of bombings and gun attacks
AFP, Published on 11/06/2025
» CALI (COLOMBIA) - Colombia was rocked by a string of 24 coordinated bomb and gun attacks that killed at least seven people across the country's southwest Tuesday, deepening a security crisis roiling the Andean nation.