Conakry, Guinea (AFP): Private media and online outlets in the West African state of Guinea on Tuesday launched a one-day boycott of news in protest at press and internet restrictions by the ruling junta. Espace TV and Kalac TV posted an image of two hands pushing apart steel bars against a backdrop of the national […]
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): A Tunisian court on Thursday released two students arrested earlier this week for a song criticising police, shortly after President Kais Saied denounced their detention as “unacceptable” amid a public outcry. Dhia Nassir and Youssef Chalbi, aged 26 and 27, were arrested on Monday in the town of Nabeul, east o...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisian journalists on Thursday protested against “repressive” anti-terror laws they say are being used to intimidate the media after a broadcaster was jailed for five years earlier this week. Dozens of protesters gathered in front of the national union of journalists’ headquarters in the capital Tunis,...
London, United Kingdom (AFP): UK police drew condemnation after arresting leading members of the anti-monarchy group Republic as they prepared to protest along the route of a procession for the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday. Officers from London’s Metropolitan Police force detained six organisers from the pressure group and ...
Dhangri, India (AFP): Brandishing a bolt-action rifle, civil servant Sanjeet Kumar is one of 5,000 people who have joined all-Hindu militia units armed and trained by Indian forces to fight Kashmiris. India has more than half a million soldiers permanently stationed in the parts of Muslim-majority Kashmir that it has illegally occupied, as the...
ANKARA (AA) – Al Jazeera journalist Hisham Abdelaziz was released after being held for almost four years in pre-trial detention in Egypt, the Doha-based news network announced on Monday. Abdelaziz, an Egyptian journalist who works for Al Jazeera’s Mubasher channel, was released early Monday. Abdelaziz was arrested in June 2019 while traveling ...
Paris, France (AFP): Three suitcases sit piled on top of one another in 95-year-old Yoro Diao’s cramped studio apartment outside Paris. After nearly 20 years of living thousands of miles from his family so he could claim his French army pension, the old soldier is finally being allowed to return to live in his native […]
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): The decision to ban Afghan women from working for the United Nations was an “internal social matter”, Taliban said Friday, a day after the UN Security Council demanded they overturn the ruling. The Security Council resolution passed unanimously on Thursday said a ban on women working for the world body and...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisian President Kais Saied preached freedom of thought at a book fair on Friday, shortly before authorities confiscated a book comparing him to Frankenstein, its author and publisher said. “It is important to liberate thinking because we cannot accomplish anything with rigid thoughts,” Saied told reporters ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Yemeni government announced Tuesday its readiness to complete the prisoner swap deal with the Houthi group. “Regarding the deal for prisoners signed in Geneva with the other party (Houthi group) under the auspices of the United Nations, we announce that the Yemeni government team is ready to implement the deal at [&he...
