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April 12, 2024

Message Received

South Korea’s prime minister and presidential advisers offered to resign on Thursday after the liberal opposition secured a landslide victory in the general election, a major setback to conservative President Yoon Suk-Yeol, the Associated Press reported. The opposition maintained its control of parliament for another term...

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April 11, 2024

Backseat Drivers

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the country’s last two general elections were “free and fair” on Wednesday, in a public inquiry into accusations of foreign interference in the elections – including Chinese and Indian meddling, the BBC reported. Quebec judge Marie-Josée Hogue is probing the...

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April 10, 2024

Match, Set, Point

One of Europe’s top courts ruled on Tuesday that Switzerland violated its citizens’ human rights by failing to adequately address climate change, a landmark verdict that applies throughout the continent and could create a precedent for climate litigation, CNN reported. Over 2,000 Swiss women from the...

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April 10, 2024

Black and Blue

Leaders in Haiti have reached a deal for a transitional government to end the gang-fuelled chaos that has battered the nation, pending the approval of the outgoing administration, Agence France Presse reported. The deal, agreed to over the weekend, establishes a nine-member council made up of...

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April 10, 2024

Into the Folds

Groups of demonstrators protested in front of Georgia’s parliament this week against a controversial bill that would allow the government to crack down on civil society organizations by labeling them “foreign agents,” a move that threatens to harm the country’s chances of joining the European...

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April 09, 2024

Online Muskets

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Sunday initiated a probe into a possible obstruction of justice by billionaire Elon Musk – the latest episode in a dispute over misinformation between the South American country and the tech magnate, CNBC reported. Musk, who owns social media platform...

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April 08, 2024

Pain and Gain

Tens of thousands of Hungarians protested in front of parliament in Budapest over the weekend in one of the biggest demonstrations in years, supporting a former government insider who has emerged as a serious challenger to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the Guardian reported. The protests were...

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April 05, 2024

Volte-face

Turkey’s top electoral authority on Wednesday reinstated a pro-Kurdish opposition politician who won Sunday’s mayoral election but whose subsequent disqualification from office sparked large protests in the southeastern city of Van, dealing an additional blow to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party, the Financial Times...

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April 05, 2024

Rex Non Potest Peccare

Tonga’s defense and foreign ministers resigned Thursday following a months-long constitutional crisis resulting from the country’s monarch clashing with the elected government, Agence France-Presse reported. Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni announced he would give up his role as defense minister, while his top ally Fekitamoeloa ‘Utoikamanu said...

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April 04, 2024

The Perpetual Outsiders

Thailand’s constitutional court agreed Wednesday to consider a case that could lead to the dissolution of the opposition Move Forward Party, a decision that dealt another blow to the country’s anti-establishment movement advocating for major institutional reforms, Reuters reported. The case stems from a complaint filed...

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April 04, 2024

The Eye of the Storm

Iran vowed retaliation against Israel following a deadly strike in the Syrian capital this week that killed 12 individuals, including two high-ranking Iranian generals, an attack that has intensified tensions in the region, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. On Monday, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit Iran’s...

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