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Filipina Mary Jane Veloso, a death row prisoner in Indonesia, is seen in April 21, 2015 in Yogyakarta

Indonesia, Philippines agree to repatriate Filipina on death row

Lai's Pacific tour has angered Beijing

Unofficial diplomatic ties

Taiwan's Lai says 'confident' of deeper cooperation with Trump

Janusz Walus, a Polish immigrant with links to the Afrikaner far right, was convicted for the 1993 murder of Chris Hani

Government announce

S. Africa deporting assassin of anti-apartheid leader to Poland

President Emmanuel Macron was to hold talks with political factions as he seeks to name a new prime minister and find a way out of France's political crisis

France in political chaos

Defiant Macron seeks new French PM and way out of crisis

South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung had warned for months that Yoon might resort to martial law

Impeachment motion

S. Korean democracy faces 'most critical moment', opposition leader tells AFP

South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law but it was swiftly overturned by parliament

Old boys' club? S Korea plotters' high school links in spotlight

Businessman Ciprian Gavrila says he hopes far-right presidential hopeful Calin Georgescu will win Sunday's run-off

Election period

'People want change': inside Romania's far-right stronghold

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused US President Joe Biden's administration of escalating the conflict in Ukraine

Lavrov says Russia ready to defend itself through 'any means'

Alicia Ceresoli, an 80-year-old pensioner, protests outside the headquarters of PAMI, the agency that manages retiree benefits, in Buenos Aires on December 4, 2024

Pensioners the big losers in Milei's world

US President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to crack down on immigration

US neighbors balk at Trump plan for deported migrants

Tbilisi has been rocked by turmoil since the Georgian Dream party claimed victory in a disputed election in October

Entering second week of protests

Fresh protests in Georgia after PM vows to 'eradicate' opposition

A Syrian rebel fighter cheers as he enters the central city of Hama

Islamist-led rebels capture key Syrian city of Hama

French President Emmanuel Macron was in defiant mood

France's Macron vows to stay on, promises PM in 'coming days'

Palestinian professor Ahmed Abu Shaban, here giving a lecture at York University in Toronto, still tries to deliver remote learning to students stuck in Gaza

Loyalty to students

From Canada, professor tries to keep Gaza university 'alive'

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer lays out his 'Plan for Change' in a de facto bid to relaunch of his government after a bumpy first five months in power

Bumpy first months

UK's Starmer vows to 'take country forward' in reset bid

An Gwi-ryeong, a spokeswoman for South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party, speaks during an interview with AFP at the National Assembly in Seoul

Democracy 'is worth defending'

S. Korean politician who tussled with soldier says felt 'fear'

An Afghan TV station has been shut down after its office was used for dubbing 'vulgar' programmes for banned media, the Taliban morality ministry says

'Vulgar' programmes

Afghan TV station shut for working with 'exiled' media, 6 detained

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the plenary session of the 31st Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Ministerial summit in Malta

Ukraine, Russian diplomats trade barbs at Malta summit

A woman cries over a two-year-old child killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza Thursday

Israel angrily denies

Amnesty accuses Israel of 'genocide' in Gaza

Protesters take part in a candlelight rally calling for the ouster of South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol

Impeachment motion

South Korean president clings to power after martial law U-turn

Lai arrived in Guam on Wednesday following visits to Pacific island nations Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands, after a stop in Hawaii

Taiwan's Lai has call with US House Speaker Johnson

Bahria Bakkur watches on as her son, Mohammed Jomaa, hugs a relative after years of separation

Long-awaited reunions

Syria families reunite after years as rebels take Aleppo

Protesters have taken to the streets to call for Yoon to go

Impeachment vote

What's going to happen next in South Korea?

A picture of former South Korean president Park Chung-Hee and his wife is displayed in Seoul 1999 at a photo exhibit on the dictator's 1979 assassination

Descent into acrimony

The troubled history of South Korean presidents

Natalya Sadykova says Kazakh authorities bear ultimate responsibility for her activist huband's killing in Kyiv

Life turned upside down

Ukraine was their refuge. Then came war, and her husband's killer

Far-right politician Calin Georgescu shocked Romania when he topped the first round of the presidential elections

Presidential vote seen as referendum on Romania's European future

The dog training scheme aims to help inmates be better prepared for life outside jail

Puppy love as Czech prison inmates train assistance dogs

Calin Georgescu has been hammering home his nationalist programme and dodging critical questions

Calin Georgescu

'Romania first': Far-right election front-runner echoes Trump

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