JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A wealthy ex-general with ties to both Indonesia’s popular outgoing president and its dictatorial past looks set to be its next leader. He’s promised to continue the outgoing president’s widely popular policies, but his human rights record has activists and some analysts concerned about the future of Indonesia’s democracy. Defense Minister … Read more
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is on trial for protesting outside a major oil and gas industry conference in London last year By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press February 1, 2024, 7:27 AM ET • 3 min read LONDON — Climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke defiantly about her mission outside court Thursday on the first day of … Read more
PARIS (AP) — France’s interior ministry on Sunday ordered a large deployment of security forces around Paris as angry farmers threatened to head toward the capital, hours after climate activists hurled soup at the glass protecting the “Mona Lisa” painting at the Louvre Museum. French farmers are putting pressure on the government to respond to … Read more
France’s interior ministry has ordered a large deployment of security forces around Paris as angry farmers threatened to head toward the capital By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press January 28, 2024, 5:58 AM ET • 4 min read PARIS — France’s interior ministry on Sunday ordered a large deployment of security forces around Paris as angry … Read more
LONDON (AP) — For holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants, a retiree faces up to two years in prison. For hanging a banner reading Just Stop Oil off a bridge, an engineer got a three-year prison sentence. Just for walking slowly down the street, scores of people … Read more
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Veteran negotiators at the United Nations climate talks Saturday said that the push to wean the world from dirty fossil fuels had gained so much momentum that they had poked a powerful enemy: the oil industry. Late Friday, multiple news sources reported that the leader of OPEC, the powerful … Read more
HONG KONG (AP) — One of Hong Kong’s best-known pro-democracy activists, who moved to Canada to pursue further studies, said she would not return to the city to meet her bail conditions, becoming the latest politician to flee Hong Kong under Beijing’s crackdown on dissidents. Agnes Chow, a famous young face in the city’s once-vibrant … Read more
Astra Taylor has a résumé that defies the notion of résumé building. She is a writer, documentary filmmaker, and organizer, and, during the past couple of decades, her itinerant intellect has taken her cruising around New York in a Volvo with Cornel West (for her 2008 documentary on philosophers, “Examined Life”), interviewing Syrian refugees in … Read more
Canada is expelling a top Indian diplomat as it investigates what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls credible allegations that India’s government may have had links to the assassination in Canada of a Sikh activist By ROB GILLIES Associated Press September 18, 2023, 4:27 PM ET • 4 min read TORONTO — Canada expelled a top … Read more