#BREAKING Kazakhstan president sacks cabinet after protests: presidential website
#UPDATE Kazakhstan's president sacks the Central Asian country's cabinet in a bid to head off unprecedented unrest across the nation that followed an energy price hike u.afp.com/wc8h
#BREAKING More than 200 detained in Kazakhstan unrest: interior ministry
#UPDATE Kazakhstan president sacks country's cabinet in bid to head off unprecedented unrest across the nation that followed energy price hike
More than 200 detained during protests that swept across Kazakhstan u.afp.com/wc8h
#BREAKING Kazakh police fire stun grenades at protesters in Almaty: @AFP
#UPDATE Police in Kazakhstan's largest city #Almaty fired stun grenades towards more than 1,000 protesters marching towards the main administration building, an AFP correspondent said, after unrest across the Central Asian nation over an energy price hike u.afp.com/wcBV
#BREAKING Protesters storm mayor's office in Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty: AFP
VIDEO: 🇰🇿 Thousands take to the streets of Kazakhstan's largest city #Almaty, marching towards the main city administration building after a night of unprecedented unrest across the Central Asian nation that followed an energy price hike
#UPDATE Protesters stormed the mayor's office in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan's largest city #Almaty on Wednesday as unprecedented protests over a hike in energy prices spun out of control, police firing stun grenades and tear gas at a crowd of several thousand u.afp.com/wc6g
#BREAKING Kazakhstan sees 'nation-scale internet blackout' amid protests: monitor
#UPDATE Kazakhstan was on Wednesday seeing a "nation-scale internet blackout" likely in response to unprecedented unrest in the Central Asian nation, a web monitoring group said, with AFP correspondents in the country unreachable on their mobile phones u.afp.com/wcuJ
#BREAKING Kazakhstan president vows 'tough' response to unrest
#UPDATE Kazakhstan's president Kassym-Jomart #Tokayev addressed the unrest-gripped Central Asian nation on Wednesday, vowing a "tough" response to mass protests over a New Year energy price hike u.afp.com/wcuy
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#BREAKING Romania's constitutional court orders recount of first round of presidential vote: statement
#UPDATE Romania's constitutional court on Thursday ordered a recount of votes cast in the first round of the presidential election, after a rival far-right contender filed a legal challenge ➡️ u.afp.com/597X
#BREAKING TikTok gave 'preferential treatment' to far-right candidate who won Romania election first round: presidency
#UPDATE A referendum on Moldova joining the EU passed with a razor-thin majority on Monday as pro-Brussels President Maia Sandu blamed the outcome on foreign meddling in a veiled reference to Russia, which denied the accusations ➡️ u.afp.com/5zL7
BREAKING France's high-speed train system disrupted by vandalism: operator
#UPDATE Hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris #Olympics , France's high-speed rail network has been hit by "malicious acts" including arson attacks that have disrupted the transport system, train operator SNCF says.
"This is a massive attack on a large scale to paralyse the TGV network," SNCF told @AFP, adding that many routes will have to be cancelled and the situation would last "at least all weekend while repairs are conducted"
BREAKING The arson attacks on France's high-speed rail network were coordinated acts of "sabotage", a source close to the investigation tells @AFP
#BREAKING 104 police, 30 journalists among injured in Bangladesh clashes: TV
#UPDATE Protesters in Bangladesh set fire to several government buildings during a day of deadly nationwide clashes between students and riot officers, a police statement said.
"The miscreants have already torched, vandalised and carried out destructive activities," on the offices of state broadcaster BTV and the national disaster management agency along with "various" police and government buildings, said the statement, issued after a nationwide internet shutdown
Bangladesh wakes to torched government buildings, internet blackout.
This week's unrest has killed at least 39 people including 32 on Thursday, with the toll expected to rise further after reports of clashes in nearly half of the country's 64 districts
#BREAKING Biden says still considers Xi a 'dictator'
#UPDATE US President Joe Biden said after a summit with Xi Jinping that he still considers the Chinese president a "dictator", after he sparked fury from Beijing by making the comparison earlier this year.
"Well look he is, I mean he's a dictator in the sense that he's a guy who's running a country, a Communist country, that's based on a form of government totally different than ours," Biden said at the end of a news conference when a reporter asked if he would still use the term to describe Xi
#BREAKING China will not begin armed conflict with any nation, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, after a high-stakes summit with US President Joe Biden.
"China does not seek spheres of influence, and will not fight a cold or hot war with any country," he told a gathering of business leaders in San Francisco