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Sergei Tikhanovsky, an opposition leader who tried to run against Belarus’ authoritarian president in the presidential election last year, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.
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Angela Merkel has stepped down as Germany’s chancellor after 16 years.
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Authorities in Ethiopia has closed all secondary schools so that students can help to harvest crops for the troops fighting at the frontlines of the country’s civil war.
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Tony Chung, a 20-year-old student activist in Hong Kong, has been sentenced to three years and seven months in prison for “secession” and “money laundering”.
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After seizing power in a coup a month ago, Sudan’s military has reinstated the prime minister after he signed a new deal to share power with the military.
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Thousands of migrants are trapped at the border between Belarus and Poland in freezing temperatures after Belarus reportedly lured them to the border on the promise that they would be able to cross into the European Union.
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People in Sudan are continuing to take to the streets in mass protests after the military seized power in a coup on Monday Oct. 25 and opened fire on protesters.
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The Philippines’ most famous athlete, boxing star Manny Pacquiao has announced he is running in the country’s 2022 presidential election.
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The announcement on Friday Sep. 17 said that classes for boys in grades seven to 12 would resume the next day on Saturday, the beginning of the Afghan week, but neglected to mention girls.
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Alyona Popova, a lawyer and women’s rights activist in Russia, has been campaigning for years for members Russia’s lower house of Parliament, the Duma, to adopt a law to protect women against domestic violence.
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Nine Hong Kong pro-democracy activists have been jailed for up to 10 months for participating in a banned vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
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A guide to everything that has happened after the US forces’ withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s takeover.