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Chen Quanguo, Chinese Communist Party chief in Xinjiang, who has been identified in a Bill passed by the US House of Representatives as a potential target for sanctions over human rights abuses of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities. Photograph: Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images
China hits back at US sanctions threat over Uighur rights abuses

Beijing reacted angrily on Wednesday after the US House of Representatives passed a Bill that could lead to tough sanctions for human rights abuses in(...)

Tunisian presidential candidate Nabil Karoui: arrested on money-laundering charges on August 23rd, but the electoral commission has allowed him to compete in the September 15th poll. Photograph: Fethi Belaid
‘Tunisia’s Berlusconi’ the wild card as nation goes to the polls
  • Africa
  • September 13, 2019, 19:02

Campaigning ended on Friday in Tunisia’s presidential election before Sunday’s first round of voting, pitting more than two dozen candidates against e(...)

Electoral commission officials at the state office in Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria, go over the results of the country’s presidential election on Monday. Photograph: Nyancho NwaNri/Reuters
Opposition rejects early results in Nigeria’s presidential election
  • Africa
  • February 25, 2019, 20:20

President Muhammadu Buhari took an early lead on Monday in initial official results from Nigeria’s presidential election but the party of his main cha(...)

Microsoft announced on Tuesday that hackers linked to the Russian state tried to target the websites of two conservative think-tanks. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP
The Irish Times view on US hacking claims: a shadow campaign

The United States government has long believed that the Russian state mounted a concerted digital campaign of interference in the 2016 presidential el(...)