Showing 81 - 90 of 186
Kremlin hails 'triumph' in vote extending Putin's rule
AFP, Published on 02/07/2020
» MOSCOW: The Kremlin on Thursday hailed as a "triumph" overwhelming backing in a national vote on constitutional reforms to extend President Vladimir Putin's rule.
EU's 'moment of truth' as leaders debate virus rescue
AFP, Published on 17/07/2020
» BRUSSELS - European leaders warned Friday that the future of their union was at stake as they embarked on a summit to thrash out the terms of a huge post-coronavirus economic rescue plan.
EU leaders squabble as deadlocked rescue summit enters third day
AFP, Published on 19/07/2020
» BRUSSELS - EU leaders return for a tense third day of summit talks on Sunday amid a clash over the scale and rules of a huge planned coronavirus economic rescue package.
EU leaders push to break virus package deadlock
AFP, Published on 20/07/2020
» BRUSSELS: Divided EU leaders will meet again on Monday to try to agree the terms of a huge coronavirus economic rescue package after a night of tense haggling failed to yield a breakthrough.
A decade on, hero Chilean miners are bitter and divided
AFP, Published on 31/07/2020
» COPIAPó (CHILE) - A decade ago, 33 Chilean miners became a symbol of hope and solidarity after surviving for more than two months trapped deep underground in the Atacama desert.
Furious Lebanese vow new protests over deadly mega-blast
AFP, Published on 09/08/2020
» BEIRUT: Lebanese protesters enraged by official negligence blamed for Beirut's enormous and deadly explosion vowed Sunday to rally again after a night of street clashes in which they stormed several ministries.
Tajikistan vote seen as easy win for strongman
AFP, Published on 11/10/2020
» DUSHANBE (TAJIKISTAN) - Central Asian Tajikistan goes to the polls Sunday in a presidential election expected to make incumbent Emomali Rakhmon the longest-ruling strongman in the former Soviet space.
From protest to ballot box, Chile votes in referendum for change
AFP, Published on 25/10/2020
» SANTIAGO - A year to the day after more than one million people thronged downtown Santiago in the biggest march of Chile's social uprising, Chileans vote Sunday on whether to change the country's dictatorship-era constitution.
Myanmar's military coup creates banking woes
AFP, Published on 24/02/2021
» YANGON: Early bird customers of a military-owned bank queued anxiously as dawn light crept over Rangoon, after a strict new limit on daily cash withdrawals fuelled rumours of a money shortage in post-coup Myanmar.
Myanmar's civil servant strikes start to bite
AFP, Published on 26/02/2021
» YANGON - Public hospitals are deserted. Government offices left dark. And the trains don't leave the stations.