PARIS (AP) – French activists fear the proposed new security law would deprive them of a powerful weapon against police hostility – cellphone videos of police activity – threatening their efforts to document possible cases of police brutality, especially in poor colonial neighborhoods. The government of French President Emmanuel Macron …
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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – Myanmar’s Sunday election is in full swing, with Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi’s party defending a strong military five years ago to retain power. More than 90 parties are vying for seats in the lower and upper houses of parliament, while elections are …
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Yangon, Myanmar (AP) – Myanmar is set to hold national and state elections on Sunday in which Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party will take power. Take a closer look at the vote here: Basic More than 37 million of Myanmar’s 56 million …
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) – When President Donald Trump told the world that “bad things happen in Philadelphia,” he was in part a full assessment of his party’s struggles in the nation’s sixth-largest city. For many decades, Philadelphia has been the cornerstone of a Democratic victory in a war-torn state – the …
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) – Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo, celebrated Erica’s annual Thanksgiving celebration on Saturday amid tight security and political tensions and significantly less crowds due to the Kovid-19 epidemic. Hundreds of people were arrested ahead of the festival, accused by some officials of plotting a terrorist attack and …
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