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South Korean ex-first lady faces bribery trial
Reuters, Published on 24/09/2025
» SEOUL - Kim Keon Hee, the wife of ousted former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol, appeared in court on Wednesday at the start of her corruption trial, part of a criminal investigation that has ensnared high-profile political and religious figures.
Dutch vote in knife-edge election
AFP, Published on 22/11/2023
» THE HAGUE - Dutch voters headed to the polls Wednesday for a nail-biting election that will transform the country's political landscape after Prime Minister Mark Rutte's record 13 years in power.
'We don't exist': Pakistan's Ahmadi minority living in fear
AFP, Published on 05/10/2023
» RABWAH (PAKISTAN) - Sadia Amjad's father died for his faith, stabbed in the street by an Islamist who discovered he was part of the minority Ahmadiyya sect that has been persecuted for decades in Pakistan.
Bolsonaro returns to Brazil for first time since election loss
AFP, Published on 30/03/2023
» BRASíLIA - Three months after leaving for the United States in the final hours of his term, Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro returned home Thursday to reenter politics -- complicating life for his successor and nemesis, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Bolsonaro, Lula launch campaigns in Brazil
AFP, Published on 17/08/2022
» JUIZ DE FORA (BRAZIL) - The race for Brazil's October elections formally opened Tuesday, with dueling campaign events by far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and leftist ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva highlighting the South American giant's deep divides.
Abe murder spotlights Unification Church controversy in Japan
AFP, Published on 29/07/2022
» TOKYO - The assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe by a man resentful of the Unification Church has resurfaced years of controversy over the group.
African support on Ukraine shows Kremlin's soft power
AFP, Published on 06/04/2022
» ABIDJAN: African leaders, opposition figures and social influencers are stepping up their support for the Kremlin even as Russia's image elsewhere is being shredded by the war in Ukraine.
'Watershed' year for Hollywood diversity amid pandemic streaming boom: report
AFP, Published on 22/04/2021
» LOS ANGELES - Female and minority actors were proportionately represented in Hollywood for the first time last year in a "watershed moment for diversity," says a report released Thursday.
World's first Covax jab injected as US eyes J&J rollout
AFP, Published on 01/03/2021
» ACCRA: Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo on Monday became the first recipient of a coronavirus vaccine under the global Covax scheme, as US health workers prepared to distribute nearly four million doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson jab.
Brazil's Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus
AFP, Published on 08/07/2020
» BRASíLIA - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro announced on Tuesday he had tested positive for the coronavirus but said he was feeling "perfectly well" and had only mild symptoms.