Singapore’s prime minister of 20 years said he would step down next month to relinquish the post to his hand-picked successor, marking the end of an era while also preserving continuity in the prosperous city-state, the Wall Street Journal reported. Lee Hsien Loong, 72, has led...
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Hundreds of people who were injured or lost relatives in a 2017 bombing at a concert hall in Manchester launched legal action against British intelligence on Sunday after an inquiry found the attack could have been prevented, the Guardian reported. Observers said it was the first...
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Iran led its first-ever direct attack on Israel over the weekend, a retaliatory drone and missile strike that was contained by Israel and its Western allies, and threatened to widen the ongoing war in Gaza into a regional conflict, Reuters reported. The attack, involving more than...
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Protest broke out in Niger’s capital of Niamey over the weekend, with demonstrators demanding the departure of US troops, after the ruling junta shifted its strategy by ending a military accord with the US and welcomed its first delegation of Russian military personnel, Reuters reported. The...
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Poland enacted a ban against homework this month that has left children rejoicing but some teachers and parents are concerned, the Associated Press reported. Under the decree, teachers are no longer to give required homework to kids in the first to third grades. In grades four...
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A Vietnamese property tycoon was sentenced to death on Thursday for her role in a fraud case that has caused damages worth $27 billion, a sentence almost unheard of for graft convictions, CBS News reported. A court in Ho Chi Minh City found Truong My Lan,...
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An Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Wednesday killed three sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who afterward insisted the deaths would not affect ongoing ceasefire negotiations between the Palestinian group and Israel, CNN reported. The three brothers were visiting relatives in a refugee camp in Gaza...
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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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The European Union’s top court on Wednesday handed two Russian oligarchs a rare win in a case over Western sanctions imposed on them by the bloc following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Associated Press reported. The EU General Court ruled in favor of Mikhail Fridman and...
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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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A South African electoral court on Tuesday overturned a decision to ban former President Jacob Zuma from running in this year’s general election, reshuffling the deck ahead of the most competitive vote in the nation’s democratic history, Al Jazeera reported. Zuma, 81, was barred by an...
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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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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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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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Nicaragua on Monday brought a case against Germany at the United Nations’ top court, accusing the European country of supporting genocide by supplying arms to Israel, expanding an international legal battle that has already seen three cases this year involving the conflict in the Middle...
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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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The government of the autonomous republic of Chechnya in Russia said last week it would ban all music deemed too fast or too slow, in an effort to preserve Chechen cultural heritage by a regime described as authoritarian, CNN reported. Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov approved a...
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Israel withdrew most of its ground troops from the southern part of the Gaza Strip Sunday – the six-month anniversary of Hamas’ attack on Israel – even as the Israeli government faces growing criticism at home and abroad for its handling of the offensive in...
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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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Mexico broke off relations with Ecuador over the weekend, after Ecuadoran police broke into the Mexican embassy in the capital Quito, in violation of international law, to arrest a former vice president taking refuge there to avoid serving jail time, the Financial Times reported. Mexico’s Foreign...
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