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By Victoria Bisset On March 11, 2023 A court in Hong Kong jailed three activists from a now-disbanded group best known for organizing annual candlelight vigils to commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacreof 1989. Chow Hang Tung, Tang Ngok Kwan and Tsui Hon Kwong, who were members of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic…

By Steve Hendrix, Amanda Morris and Siobhán O’Grady On March 18, 2023 DNIPRO, Ukraine — When a Russian shell slammed into Taya Berkova’s apartment building in Kharkiv last March, her neighbors did something she could not: They ran. The 43-year-old, who uses a wheelchair because she has cerebral palsy, was trapped as the floors above…

By Gaberiela Selser On February 15, 2023 MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua cancelled the citizenship of 94 political opponents Wednesday, including writers Sergio Ramírez and Gioconda Belli. Appeals Court Justice Ernesto Rodríguez Mejía read a statement that declared the 94 people to be “traitors” and said they had lost their Nicaraguan citizenship. Mejía said their…

On February 24, 2023 More than 200 security personnel sent to Wamena town after child kidnap rumor sparks deadly riot and clashes with police. At least nine people have been killed and 14 injured in rioting and clashes with police in Papua’s Wamena town after rumours circulated that a child had been kidnapped, local media…

By Luc Cohen and Karen Freifeld On February 24, 2023 NEW YORK, Feb 24 (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Friday said they were seeking to forfeit six properties in New York and Florida allegedly belonging to a sanctioned Russian oligarch, and separately charged a Russian national with illegally exporting counterintelligence equipment. The announcements came on…

By Jamie Quintanilla and Tom Philips On February 20, 2023 War on gangs by populist leader Nayib Bukele has produced extraordinary change, but ‘the cure could be as harmful as the disease’ Jaime Quintanilla in Soyapango and Tom PhillipsMon 20 Feb 2023 05.30 EST To visit her father in the Salvadoran community of El Pepeto, Karla…