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An American journalist detained for months by Myanmar’s junta has been denied bail and hit with a third criminal charge, his lawyer said on Thursday. Danny Fenster, managing editor of Frontier Myanmar, was held in May as he attempted to…
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Police on Friday briefly detained a journalist investigating a grenade attack in the commercial capital Bujumbura, his radio station said, after a series of explosions this week that killed at least five people. Radio Bonesha FM had…
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Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou flew home to China on Friday after reaching an agreement with US prosecutors to end the bank fraud case against her, relieving a point of tension between China and the United States. Within…
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A growing number of migrants and refugees attempting to reach Europe from Libya are being intercepted or rescued and returned to the north African country, where they are locked up in overcrowded detention centers. In these facilities…
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Malian officers upset with a government reshuffle have detained the president and prime minister at an army camp outside the capital, triggering broad international condemnation and demands for their immediate release. President Bah Ndaw…
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Bosnia on Wednesday detained a former coach of Croatian football team Dinamo Zagreb on an international arrest warrant over a multi-million-euro fraud, police sources said. Zoran Mamic resigned from his job at the reigning Croatia…
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A top Turkish opposition daily’s columnist, who posted a tweet of a cartoon depicting a cleaner appearing to disinfect a religious cleric’s mind, was briefly detained on Wednesday. Cumhuriyet journalist Enver Aysever could face a…
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Turkish police on Tuesday detained 17 people after hundreds attended a student-led protest against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s appointment of a rector to a top university in Istanbul. Officers conducted dawn raids in 13 districts in…
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