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November 09, 2023

Identity Crisis

Mass protests continued in Panama this week over the government’s contract with First Quantum Minerals, which grants the Canadian company mining rights to a significant portion of the country’s land, the Washington Post reported. The unrest has seen demonstrators block key arterial roads and vandalize businesses....

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November 09, 2023

Opening Doors

Australia’s High Court ruled Wednesday that the government’s power to hold individuals indefinitely in immigration detention centers is illegal, a landmark ruling that overturned a nearly two-decade-old precedent that has significantly influenced the country’s border policies, the BBC reported. The case involved a stateless Rohingya man...

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November 08, 2023

Choking Along

India’s top court ordered authorities in states surrounding the capital to stop farmers from burning crop residue, as the air quality in New Delhi has continued to plummet in the past week to hazardous levels, Reuters reported Tuesday. The Supreme Court’s ruling comes at the time...

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November 08, 2023

Revolving Doors

Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa resigned Tuesday, following a police raid on his official residence as part of an inquiry into corruption allegations involving government energy deals that has also led to the arrest of other members of his administration, the BBC reported. Prosecutors are examining...

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November 08, 2023

Giving Up

Mexico’s Zapatista rebel movement dissolved its “autonomous municipalities” in the country’s south this week, almost 30 years after it launched a brief rebellion demanding greater Indigenous rights, the Associated Press reported. In 1994, the group – officially known as Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) –...

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November 06, 2023

Hardening Rights

French President Emmanuel Macron plans to enshrine the right to abortion in the country’s constitution, a move that will make France the first nation to explicitly designate access to the procedure as a protected constitutional right, Forbes reported. Last week, the president announced that next year...

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November 03, 2023

Taking Charge

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ordered a temporary militarization of the country’s most important ports and airports, a move aimed at addressing the rising crime in the South American nation following a series of incidents in Rio de Janeiro state, Reuters reported. The leftist...

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November 03, 2023

The Race of Snails

Montenegro’s parliament approved a new government this week – five months after the country’s elections, Politico reported. The new government is made up of a coalition of pro-European, pro-Serb and Albanian minority parties, with former Finance Minister Milojko Spajić serving as the country’s prime minister. Spajic said...

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November 02, 2023

To the People

A law revoking a major mining contract with a Canadian mining company passed the first of two votes in Panama’s National Assembly Wednesday, a bill that would render a proposed referendum on the controversial contract unnecessary, Bloomberg reported. A legislative committee this week had approved putting...

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November 02, 2023

The Hardest Word

King Charles III acknowledged the atrocities committed by British colonial authorities against Kenyans during their fight for independence in the 1950s, but stopped short of issuing a full apology, CNN reported. The British monarch’s statements came during a four-day state visit to Kenya, which was marked...

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November 02, 2023

The Over-Step

Australia’s top court ruled Wednesday that the government cannot strip citizenship from a man convicted of terrorism, a verdict that dealt another blow to a law allowing government ministers to revoke dual nationals of their Australian citizenship because of extremism-related crimes, the Associated Press reported. The...

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November 01, 2023

Lip Service

Venezuela’s top court this week suspended the results of the opposition’s recent primary election, a move that will likely hinder the participation of opposition candidates in next year’s presidential vote, the Associated Press reported. The ruling is centered on the opposition’s primary vote on Oct. 22...

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