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The 27-nation EU is scrambling to revamp its economic competitiveness

World

France asks EU to delay rights, environment business rules

France on Friday asked the European Union to suspend “indefinitely” landmark new rules on environmental and human rights supply chain standards, saying they were...

AFPJanuary 24, 2025

Thai actors Apiwat 'Porsch' Apiwatsayree (L) and Sappanyoo 'Arm' Panatkool pose after registering their same-sex marriage Thursday

Life

Hundreds to wed as Thai same-sex marriage law comes into force

A high-profile gay couple married in Thailand on Thursday as the kingdom's same-sex marriage law went into effect.

AFPJanuary 22, 2025

Members of the LGBTQ community celebrate after the Thai parliament passed the final senatorial vote on the same-sex marriage bill in 2024

World

Hundreds to wed as Thai same-sex marriage law comes into force

Hundreds of same-sex couples are set to tie the knot in Thailand on Thursday as it becomes by far the largest nation in Asia...

AFPJanuary 22, 2025

Self-exiled Russian lawyer Olga Mikhailova says she does not regret taking on opposition leader Alexei Navalny as a client many years ago

World

‘Did not push hard enough’: Navalny lawyer speaks of regrets

The top lawyer of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison in February last year, told AFP she regretted...

AFPJanuary 22, 2025

Calin Georgescu was a surprise winner of the first round of the election

World

Europe rights court rejects appeal of Romania vote annulment

Europe’s top rights court on Tuesday rejected far-right candidate Calin Georgescu’s appeal of a Romanian court decision to annul the 2024 presidential election after...

AFPJanuary 21, 2025

Sheikh Hasina's governement was accused of widespread human rights abuses during her 15 years in power in Bangladesh

World

Bangladesh probe reveals children held in secret jails

Several children were among hundreds of people held in secret detention centres in Bangladesh, a commission investigating enforced disappearances carried out during the tenure...

AFPJanuary 21, 2025

Much of Gaza has been reduced to rubble by the Israeli military offensive, with Human Rights Watch saying there had been 'crimes against humanity' committed by that country's forces

World

‘Heinous crimes’ in Gaza conflict must be punished, regardless of truce: HRW

Human Rights Watch on Thursday called for punishment for the “heinous crimes” committed “on and since October 7, 2023,” in Israel and Gaza, after...

AFPJanuary 16, 2025

UN rights chief Volker Turk met with Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus

World

UN rights chief says transitional justice ‘crucial’ in Syria

United Nations rights chief Volker Turk on Wednesday said transitional justice was “crucial” for Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, during the first-ever...

AFPJanuary 15, 2025