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Ukraine ministers resign over major corruption scandals
AFP, Published on 13/11/2025
» KYIV (UKRAINE) - Ukraine's energy and justice ministers resigned on Wednesday over their alleged involvement in a sweeping corruption scandal in the country's energy sector.
Ripped up deal, virus accusations, spies: Australia-China relations in freefall
AFP, Published on 22/04/2021
» BEIJING: Spying charges, calls for a probe into the origins of Covid-19, and now a body blow to Chinese Belt and Road ambitions Down Under -- tensions between Australia and its biggest trade partner China are going from bad to worse.
DR Congo declares end to Ebola epidemic in east
AFP, Published on 25/06/2020
» KINSHASA - DR Congo on Thursday officially declared an end to an Ebola epidemic that broke out in the east of the troubled country two years ago and went on to claim over 2,000 lives.
New bribe details on 2018, 2022 World Cup votes as execs charged
AFP, Published on 07/04/2020
» NEW YORK - Two former executives with US media giant Fox were charged with corruption, bank fraud and money-laundering on Monday as US federal prosecutors shed fresh light on the scandal-tainted bidding war for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
Dozens of Hong Kong protesters make daring campus breakout
AFP, Published on 18/11/2019
» HONG KONG: Dozens of Hong Kong protesters escaped a two-day police siege at a campus late Monday by shimmying down a rope from a bridge to awaiting motorbikes in a dramatic and perilous breakout that followed a renewed warning by Beijing of a possible intervention to end the crisis engulfing the city.
Hong Kong protesters fire arrows, choke city for fourth day
AFP, Published on 14/11/2019
» HONG KONG: Pro-democracy protesters challenging China's rule of Hong Kong on Thursday choked the city for a fourth straight working day, firing arrows at police, barricading roads and disrupting transport links, as schools and businesses closed.
Hong Kong police round up activists ahead of rally
AFP, Published on 30/08/2019
» HONG KONG - Prominent Hong Kong democracy activists were arrested Friday in a dragnet that came as protesters planned to rally this weekend in defiance of a police ban.
Brazil Supreme Court rejects request to free ex-leader Lula
AFP, Published on 26/06/2019
» BRASíLIA - Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request to free leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from prison while they consider whether Justice Minister Sergio Moro, who was the convicting judge, was biased.
Director turns back on homeland with latest film
AFP, Published on 22/11/2018
» NAKHON PATHOM: Wearied by the creative constrictions of junta-run Thailand, Palme d'Or-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul is making his next feature in Colombia with Tilda Swinton, but promises to bring his key themes -- ghosts, memory and politics -- with him.
Suu Kyi's image in shreds as Myanmar jails Reuters pair
AFP, Published on 03/09/2018
» YANGON - The jailing of two Reuters journalists shreds what remains of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's reputation as a rights champion, critics say, after she failed to come to their defence or speak up for the persecuted Rohingya minority.