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Iran committed 'crimes against humanity' in 2019 crackdown: lawyers

Iran's government and security forces committed "crimes against humanity" in their suppression of huge nationwide protests in 2019, an international panel of lawyers probing the crackdown concluded on Friday.. "The panel unanimously finds... beyond a reasonable doubt that the Iranian government and the security forces designed and implemented a plan to commit crimes against humanity," the tribunal's six legal experts said in their judgment summary.

Fri, Sep 30, 2022 3 mins read
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Latvia's Russian-speakers fear becoming Ukraine war 'collateral'

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has complicated things for Latvia's Russian-speakers, already caught between an attachment to country versus cultural and linguistic identity and who now fear becoming collateral victims of Moscow's war.. - 'Kremlin-friendly fake news' - The Ukraine war has only further complicated things. 

Fri, Sep 30, 2022 3 mins read
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Gunfire heard near Burkina Faso presidency: witnesses

Shots rang out before dawn on Friday around Burkina Faso's presidential palace and headquarters of the military junta, which itself seized power in a coup last January, witnesses told AFP. Troops blocked several main roads in the capital Ouagadougou, AFP journalists said, and state television was cut, broadcasting a blank screen for several hours saying: "no video signal".. During the morning more shots were heard by an AFP cameraman in the Ouaga 2000 neighbourhood that houses both the presidential and military junta headquarters.

Fri, Sep 30, 2022 3 mins read
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Iran protests over Mahsa Amini death enter third week

A protest movement in Iran over the death in custody of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini entered its third week Friday, in defiance of an intensifying crackdown that rights activists say has cost at least 83 lives.. Amnesty's warning comes as Iran presses ahead with an intensifying crackdown that has seen the arrest of many journalists, activists and other prominent figures.

Fri, Sep 30, 2022 3 mins read
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Comeback kid Lula seeking Brazil's top job at 76

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will be hoping his record as the most popular president in Brazilian history can trump the ignominy of a graft conviction to hand him a third term at the helm -- 12 years after his last.. In his trademark gravelly voice, Lula has said he is again "in love as if I were 20 years old" with Rosangela "Janja" da Silva, a sociologist and PT activist whom he married in May.

Fri, Sep 30, 2022 3 mins read
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Bolsonaro: Brazil's polarizing far-right president

Four years after storming in to shake up a Brazil disgusted with politics, far-right President Jair Bolsonaro finds it increasingly hard to cast himself as an outsider, but remains as vitriolic and polarizing as ever.. Two years later, he was elected to the lower house of Congress, where he served until becoming president.

Fri, Sep 30, 2022 3 mins read
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'Democracy on the ballot' as Brazil holds divisive vote

After a polarizing campaign, Brazil votes for its next president Sunday in a combative heavyweight bout threatening to test its young democracy: far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro versus leftist former leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.. Democracy is on the ballot," said political analyst Michael Shifter of the Inter-American Dialogue think tank, calling Bolsonaro "the most anti-democratic president" since the military regime.

Fri, Sep 30, 2022 3 mins read
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Thai court rules suspended PM Prayut can resume office

Thailand's suspended prime minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha can resume office, the country's constitutional court said Friday, ruling that he has not exceeded his eight-year term limit.. Under the 2017 Thai constitution, a prime minister cannot serve more than eight years in office, but Prayut's supporters and critics disagreed about when his term began.

Fri, Sep 30, 2022 2 mins read
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Makeshift wifi spot reconnects shattered Ukraine city

Starved of news and contact with the outside world during six months of occupation by Russian forces, residents of recently liberated Izyum are grateful for a makeshift wifi spot in the shattered Ukrainian city.. Izyum, a predominantly Russian-speaking city of about 50,000 people before the war, had been fully occupied since April until it was recaptured earlier this month during Kyiv's lightning counter-offensive.

Fri, Sep 30, 2022 2 mins read
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