A court in Austria last week found the country’s former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz guilty of perjury and handed him a suspended eight-month prison sentence, in a case that’s part of a series of corruption scandals that eventually sent the charismatic leader out of office, Al...
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Talks for a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will continue in Qatar, according to Egyptian state media, following a framework formulated in France over the weekend between negotiators from Egypt, Qatar, the United States, Israel and Hamas representatives, the Times of Israel reported Sunday. Over...
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Russian authorities returned the body of opposition leader Alexei Navalny to his mother over the weekend, more than a week after the Kremlin critic died in an Arctic penal colony in mysterious circumstances, Sky News reported. Navalny’s spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, confirmed that officials handed over the...
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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Saturday lifted certain strict sanctions on junta-led Niger, a move seen as an attempt to convince three countries ruled by the military not to withdraw from the bloc and preserve regional integration, Reuters reported. Niger, Burkina Faso,...
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Libya’s government on Thursday said they reached an agreement for militias to leave the capital city Tripoli after controlling it for more than a decade out of the chaotic aftermath of the Arab Spring, the BBC reported. Interior Minister Imed Trabelsi told reporters the deal was...
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The Albanian parliament approved an agreement Thursday to host thousands of asylum seekers for Italy, a deal aimed at tackling the influx of refugees and migrants entering the European Union, but which has drawn sharp criticism from human rights groups, Al Jazeera reported. Lawmakers from the...
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Colombia’s largest remaining rebel group suspended peace talks with the government this week, creating another roadblock for President Gustavo Petro’s efforts to end the South American country’s decade-long armed conflict, Agence France-Presse reported. On Tuesday, the National Liberation Army (ELN) accused the central government of violating...
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Chile will reopen the investigation into the death of renowned Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda, who died under mysterious circumstances shortly after the coup that brought strongman Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power over 50 years ago, Sky News reported. The case’s reopening comes a few months...
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Thousands of Albanian citizens took to the streets of the capital Tirana this week to protest against government corruption, Euronews reported. Demonstrators, including many supporters of Albania’s opposition, protested in front of Prime Minister Edi Rama’s office, with some protesters throwing stones and flares at police...
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A judge in Haiti probing the killing of President Jovenel Moïse indicted a group of individuals that includes his widow, the former prime minister, and a police chief for involvement in the murder – the latest indictment related to the killing that set off the...
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Ukrainian and Spanish intelligence officials confirmed this week that a former Russian pilot, who had defected to Ukraine last year, was found shot dead in southern Spain, a death that came a few days after Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in a Russian prison,...
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More than 1,600 trainee doctors in South Korea staged a walkout Tuesday to protest a recent government plan to admit more students to medical schools, a move that has resulted in cancelations of treatments and surgeries in many major hospitals across the country, Reuters reported. The...
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Tourists faced disappointment again on Tuesday as a strike closed the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris over financial mismanagement for the second consecutive day, the Associated Press reported. Eiffel Tower workers, who launched a strike this week over the way the monument is managed financially, want...
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The United Nations’ top court began a hearing into Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land Monday, even as Israel and Hamas continue to fight a bloody war in the Gaza strip that has killed more than 29,000 Palestinians, the Associated Press reported. During the hearing at The...
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At least 26 people died in a gunfight on Sunday that involved tribal groups in a rural area of Papua New Guinea, where clashes between tribes have become increasingly violent, the New York Times reported. The violence occurred in the highlands’ Enga Province, leaving dozens of...
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Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Mexico on Sunday, in a so-called “march for democracy,” with protesters outraged by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposed changes to an electoral agency ahead of elections in June, the Associated Press reported. During the marches,...
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Authorities in Russia detained more than 400 people who participated in memorial gatherings across the country over the weekend, following the death of opposition leader Alexey Navalny in prison, the New York Times reported. Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition figure and critic of President Vladimir Putin,...
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The top court of majority-Muslim Malaysia this month invalidated Islamic criminal laws enacted in a state run by the opposition for offenses including sodomy and incest, arguing that they overstepped the central government’s authority – a verdict decried by Islamists, the Associated Press reported. The court...
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Thousands of Croatians took to the streets of the capital Zagreb over the weekend to protest alleged government corruption and demand immediate elections, ahead of polls later this year, Agence France-Presse reported. Saturday’s protests ignited after the recent and controversial appointment of Judge Ivan Turudic as...
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Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto declared victory in Indonesia’s presidential election Thursday, after unofficial results showed him leading the race with enough votes to avoid a runoff, a victory that some analysts and voters see as a sign of democratic backsliding in the world’s third-largest democracy,...
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