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By Joan Mas Autonell Jerusalem, Mar 3 (EFE).- Palestinian families watching on as bulldozers guarded by police demolish their homes has long been a common sight in East Jerusalem, but the frequency of forceful evictions has risen sharply since the right-wing Israeli government took power last year. That is what...
Moscow, Mar 3 (EFE).- Belarus on Friday sentenced human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison on charges of smuggling money and funding activities that subverted public order. Bialiatski is the founder of the Eastern European nation’s most prominent human rights group Viasna...
New Delhi, Mar 3 (EFE).- The Foreign Affairs chiefs of the Quad, the alliance made up of Japan, the United States, Australia and India, denounced Friday the attempts to «increase tension» in the East and South China seas, without directly naming Beijing, and «debated» their responses to the Ukraine war....
Bangkok, Mar 3 (EFE).- Cambodia’s opposition leader Kem Sokha was sentenced on Friday to 27 years in prison after being found guilty of treason, his family announced. “KemSokha has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for treason and banned from politics for life. He has now being taken to...
Beijing, Mar 3 (EFE).- A fire broke out in an under-construction skyscraper in a shopping district of Hong Kong, the government announced Friday. The blaze began at the construction site, located on the 11 Middle Road in the Tsim Sha Tsui district, at about 11:11 pm on Thursday, the government...
Sydney, Australia, Mar 3 (EFE).- Australia asked China to use its leadership in a «responsible» way to put an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in addition to urging it to «do the right thing» and not consider providing arms to Russia, the country’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong said....
National Harbor, Maryland (EFE).- The US right on Thursday pumped itself up at its big annual convention, a «Woodstock»-like festival for the supporters of Donald Trump, according to some participants, where the ex-president was touted as the country’s great savior in the 2024 presidential election. But the Conservative Political Action...
By Manuel Ayala Tijuana, Mexico, Mar 2 (EFE).- A family driven from their village in southern Mexico by organized crime abandoned the idea of seeking asylum in the United States in favor of selling spicy quesadillas to tourists in this border metropolis The family matriarch and 11 of her kin,...
New Delhi, Mar 2 (EFE).- A meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of Twenty (G20) leading economies ended without a joint declaration in the Indian capital due to widening differences of opinion on the Russia-Ukraine war. It was for the second time in a week that the bloc under...
Copenhagen, Mar 2 (EFE).- The colors of the Russian flag were daubed onto the base of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, one of the most popular tourist spots in the Danish capital. Danish police on Thursday opened an investigation into the act of vandalism against the statue, which is...
Moscow/Kyiv, Mar 2 (EFE).- Russian authorities on Thursday claimed pro-Ukrainian forces had staged an incursion into the Russian Federation in what the Kremlin described as a terror attack. Russian state news agency Tass said the alleged incursion comprising “several dozen armed militants” took place in the region of Bryansk, near...
Berlin, Mar 2 (EFE).- German chancellor Olaf Scholz Thursday called on China not to send arms to Russia and urged the Asian giant to lobby Moscow to end its invasion of Ukraine. “Use your influence in Moscow to press for the withdrawal of Russian troops, and do not supply weapons...
