The Pacific state of Nauru decided to cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan and recognize China instead this week, a few days after the Taiwanese elected a Beijing-critic as their president, shrinking the country’s list of allies and threatening an imbalance of power in the region,...
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A group of individuals from the Caribbean island of Bonaire is suing the Dutch government, accusing it of human rights violations for insufficiently addressing the climate crisis, the Guardian reported. The lawsuit, filed in The Hague by eight individuals in collaboration with Greenpeace Netherlands, is demanding...
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China’s population dropped in 2023 for the second year in a row, according to the country’s statistics agency, a decline that has raised demographic and economic worries in one of the world’s largest economies, NBC News reported. On Wednesday, China’s National Statistics Bureau said the country’s...
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The Dominican Republic will launch a six-month pilot program aimed at creating a four-day workweek for employees in public and private companies, the first of its kind in the Caribbean country and part of a global trend seeking to improve the work-life balance of employees,...
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Zambia began administering oral cholera vaccines in response to a nationwide outbreak that has claimed more than 360 lives and has infected at least 9,500 people since October, Africanews reported Wednesday. Earlier this week, the government received the first batch of 1.4 million oral cholera vaccines...
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Iran’s security forces launched a series of missile strikes at the alleged headquarters for Israeli spies in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, an attack that raised fears of a widening conflict across the Middle East amid Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the...
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North Korea’s ruler Kim Jong Un scrapped a decades-long process of facilitating reunification with South Korea, demanding instead for it to be designed as his country’s main antagonist in the constitution, and warning of war, Reuters reported. Addressing his rubber-stamp legislature, the dictator called for South...
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Suriname’s former autocrat Desi Bouterse disappeared this week, a month after a court sentenced him to 20 years in prison for the murders of more than a dozen political opponents during his rule of the South American country in the 1980s, the Associated Press reported. Bouterse...
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Anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arévalo became Guatemala’s president early Monday after an inauguration that was delayed due to efforts in Congress to stall his swearing-in, Reuters reported. As the inauguration began, Guatemalans danced in the streets, set off fireworks and waved blue and white national flags as...
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A Cambodian court on Monday convicted a group of land rights activists of attempting to incite a Khmer Rouge-style revolution by teaching farmers about class divisions, the Associated Press reported. Four members of the Coalition of Cambodian Farmer Community were arrested in May last year after...
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Over 10,000 farmers and their tractors blocked traffic in Germany’s capital and main highways on Monday to protest government plans to raise taxes – amid political debates on the rise of the far-right, CNN reported. The rally was the climax of a week of demonstrations that...
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William Lai, the candidate for Taiwan’s ruling party, won Saturday’s presidential election in a vote that defied China’s ambition of “reunification” but also expressed citizens’ concerns over domestic woes, Reuters reported. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is staying in office following on from Tsai Ing-wen’s eight-year...
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Denmark’s King Frederik X officially took the throne Sunday following the abdication of his mother, Queen Margrethe II, in a royal ceremony that diverted from tradition and underscored the country’s understated approach to its constitutional monarchy, the Guardian reported. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen proclaimed Frederik X...
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Myanmar’s military and an alliance of ethnic rebel groups agreed to a Chinese-brokered ceasefire this week, after more than two months of intense fighting in the country’s northeast that has posed a major challenge for the ruling junta following its coup nearly three years ago,...
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday began a two-day preliminary hearing on South Africa’s case against Israel charging genocide in the Gaza Strip, a landmark proceeding that could shape the course of the conflict and have serious implications for the Jewish nation, Axios...
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North Korea began removing any mention of its reunification policy and the doctrine of “one people” with South Korea from its media coverage this week, signaling a shift that the authoritarian regime could rationalize the use of its nuclear arsenal against Seoul in the future,...
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After a huge public uproar, British police last week launched an investigation into the Post Office’s handling of an IT glitch that led to the prosecution of hundreds of employees for allegedly stealing money, some of whom later committed suicide, the Associated Press reported. Between 1999...
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Riots in Papua New Guinea’s two main cities sparked by the Pacific country’s worsening economic situation left over a dozen people dead by Thursday, the Associated Press reported. A march at the parliament building in the capital Port Moresby Wednesday by police and other public officials...
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Polish police this week arrested two opposition politicians convicted of abuse of power who had taken refuge in the presidential palace, prompting a major standoff between the previous conservative government and the newly-elected pro-European coalition of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Bloomberg reported. The controversy centers on...
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A diplomatic row between India and the Maldives sparked by social media is causing significant economic repercussions for the island nation, as Indian travelers and travel agencies have begun canceling their reservations in the picturesque archipelago, CNBC reported. Calls for a boycott of the Maldives by...
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