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March 14, 2024

Unburying the Past

Swiss prosecutors this week indicted the uncle of Syrian President Bashar Assad, Rifaat Assad, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity over his alleged role in a massacre in western Syria in the early 1980s, Voice of America reported. On Tuesday, Switzerland’s attorney general...

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March 14, 2024

Staying In Line

Thousands of Slovaks protested in the country’s capital this week to show support for Ukraine and denounce the government’s foreign policy shift that critics say has veered too close to Russia, Reuters reported. Around 5,000 people took to the streets of Bratislava on Tuesday, chanting slogans...

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March 13, 2024

Bowing Out

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned, following national and international pressure to step down as armed gangs have tightened their grip in the Caribbean country’s capital Port-au-Prince and are threatening civil war, the Washington Post reported. The embattled prime minister announced late Monday that he would...

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March 13, 2024

Slap, Slap

The Indian government will begin implementing a 2019 citizenship bill that fast-tracks passports for foreigners except when they are Muslim, a move that comes ahead of India’s general election this year when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek a rare third term in office, CNN...

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March 12, 2024

Exit, Stage Right

Portugal’s general election Sunday gave the far-right a boost, mirroring a trend across Europe, as the ruling Socialist Party conceded defeat to its center-right rivals despite inconclusive results, the New York Times reported. For eight years, the Socialist Party governed a country where the presence of...

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March 12, 2024

Moving Forward

Three key Libyan leaders agreed this week to form a new unity government that would supervise long-delayed elections in the North African country, Reuters reported. After the deposing of autocrat Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, Libya was split into two rival administrations in 2014 which was followed...

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March 11, 2024

Confounding Language

Irish voters overwhelmingly rejected two referendums aimed at changing the country’s constitution in areas relating to women and family, votes that observers called embarrassing defeats for the government, the Financial Times reported over the weekend. On Friday, two referendums had proposed recognizing families based on “durable...

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March 11, 2024

No One Is Safe

Gunmen kidnapped nearly 300 students from a school in northwestern Nigeria, the latest abduction in the West African county and which underscores its precarious security situation, the Associated Press reported. Authorities and parents said the kidnapping took place Thursday in the remote town of Kuriga, Kaduna...

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March 11, 2024

Outnumbered

Samoa’s parliament passed new electoral amendments over the weekend that will give citizens the right to register to vote from overseas, a move that opposition lawmakers warn could see the Pacific island nation being governed by “outsiders,” Radio New Zealand reported. The new Electoral Amendment Bill...

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March 08, 2024

Push, Pull

Thousands of Colombians took to the streets of major cities this week to protest against President Gustavo Petro’s proposed reforms and ongoing security challenges in the South American country, Reuters reported. In the capital Bogota, demonstrators brandished banners reading “No more Petro!” and “Out, Petro!” as...

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March 08, 2024

Fury For the Lost

Protesters smashed the door of Mexico’s presidential palace this week, demanding answers for the 43 college students who went missing a decade ago, a mass disappearance that remains one of the country’s most infamous human rights cases, NPR reported. On Wednesday, demonstrators used a pickup truck...

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March 07, 2024

Round Two

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued warrants this week for two Russian military leaders accused of war crimes in Ukraine, the second time the Netherlands-based court has ordered the arrest of Moscow officials since the conflict began two years ago, the Washington Post reported. Tuesday’s warrants...

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March 07, 2024

Dishing Out Blame

An investigation into Israel’s worst civilian disaster found that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “bears personal responsibility” for the 2021 stampede that killed 45 Jewish pilgrims in northern Israel, Agence France-Presse reported Wednesday. In April 2021, tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered for an annual pilgrimage...

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