/ Americas Issued on: 30/12/2020 - 17:35 A pro-choice activist celebrates the passing of a law legalising abortion in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 30, 2020. © Reuters / France 24 Argentina on Wednesday became one of only a handful of Latin American countries to legalise abortion when the country's senate voted to pass the…...
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Vice President Mike Pence has come under heavy pressure from President Trump to back an unconstitutional scheme to overturn his election defeat in a joint session of Congress next week. According to multiple reports, advisers have repeatedly had to explain to the president that the vice president's role is merely ceremonial. Trump has lost every legal challenge after…...
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President Donald Trump’s baseless and desperate claims of a stolen election over the last seven weeks — the most aggressive promotion of “voter fraud” in American history — failed to get any traction in courts across seven states, or come anywhere close to reversing the loss he suffered to Joe Biden. But the effort has…...
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The families of some of the 10 Hongkongers jailed on the mainland for illegal border crossing have called on mainland authorities to allow them to their loved ones behind bars. The 10 were each given jail terms ranging from seven months to three years on Wednesday. The mother of Li Tsz-yin, who was given a…...
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Ten Hongkongers jailed in Shenzhen on Wednesday for their alleged illegal border crossing had nothing but praise for the mainland's judicial system – according to state media. The group, who had been held for more than four months since being captured at sea by the Guangdong coast guard, declared that their rights had been fully…...
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Vice President Mike Pence has come under heavy pressure from President Trump to back an unconstitutional scheme to overturn his election defeat in a joint session of Congress next week. According to multiple reports, advisers have repeatedly had to explain to the president that the vice president's role is merely ceremonial. Trump has lost every legal challenge after…...
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President Donald Trump’s baseless and desperate claims of a stolen election over the last seven weeks — the most aggressive promotion of “voter fraud” in American history — failed to get any traction in courts across seven states, or come anywhere close to reversing the loss he suffered to Joe Biden. But the effort has…...
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The families of some of the 10 Hongkongers jailed on the mainland for illegal border crossing have called on mainland authorities to allow them to their loved ones behind bars. The 10 were each given jail terms ranging from seven months to three years on Wednesday. The mother of Li Tsz-yin, who was given a…...
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Ten Hongkongers jailed in Shenzhen on Wednesday for their alleged illegal border crossing had nothing but praise for the mainland's judicial system – according to state media. The group, who had been held for more than four months since being captured at sea by the Guangdong coast guard, declared that their rights had been fully…...
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A mainland criminal lawyer says the jail sentences two Hongkongers received on Wednesday for “organising an illegal border crossing" were not very heavy, adding that they could get parole after serving half their terms. Zhang Dongshuo was speaking to RTHK after Tang Kai-yin and Quinn Moon were jailed for three and two years respectively for…...
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