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July 25, 2024

All You May Eat

India’s Supreme Court this week suspended measures in two northern states that had forced restaurants to display their owners’ names, an obligation critics said could fuel division and discrimination against the country’s Muslim minority, the BBC reported. In Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, two states governed by...

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July 24, 2024

Additional Safeguards

Germany’s governing coalition and main opposition plan to amend the constitution to protect the country’s top court from potential manipulation and obstruction from far-right parties, as well as ensure its independence, the Financial Times reported. On Tuesday, Justice Minister Marco Buschmann announced the proposal, saying it...

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July 24, 2024

Fire and Fury

Police arrested dozens of people Tuesday as young Ugandans took to the streets of the capital Kampala to protest high-level corruption, despite the government threatening a crackdown, the Associated Press reported. Security forces detained around 60 people who attempted to enter the country’s parliament. Police and...

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July 23, 2024

(No) Comment

US President Joe Biden’s decision on Sunday not to run in the next presidential election echoed well beyond America, with leaders worldwide offering praise or criticism to the outgoing commander-in-chief, Newsweek reported. During his term, Biden’s approach to transatlantic allies contrasted with that of former President...

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July 23, 2024

Whodunnit?

Kenyan authorities arrested this month a suspected serial killer who has confessed to murdering 42 women since 2022, including his own wife, in a case that has shocked the country and renewed scrutiny against Kenya’s police force, the BBC reported. Last week, Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, 33,...

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July 22, 2024

Bargaining Chips

A Russian court this week sentenced Wall Street Journal (WSJ) correspondent Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in prison on charges of espionage, a verdict that has prompted Western condemnation and accusations that Moscow is using the US journalist as a bargaining chip, NPR reported. The case...

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July 19, 2024

Word Wars

The Spanish government will introduce a series of measures aimed at curbing the spread of fake news, an initiative the conservative opposition panned as an attempt to censor critical media, especially conservative outlets, while journalists worried it would endanger press freedoms, Reuters reported. On Wednesday, Socialist...

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July 18, 2024

Short and Bitter

Plagued by scandals, Wales’ elected First Minister Vaughan Gething said this week he would be stepping down, less than four months after he became the first Black individual to lead a European country, the BBC reported. Controversies over his campaign’s funding and the sacking of a...

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July 17, 2024

Quota Wars

Clashes among groups of university students broke out across Bangladesh this week, leaving five people dead and dozens injured in protests against a scheme setting quotas for government jobs that go to war veterans’ relatives – which critics say benefits the ruling party, the Associated...

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July 17, 2024

Law and Disorder

Police clashed with anti-government protesters on Tuesday in the capital Nairobi and other Kenyan cities, killing at least one person and forcing businesses to close, as activists demanded that President William Ruto step down, Reuters reported. Demonstrators lit bonfires on major highways and set tires and...

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July 16, 2024

The Balancing Act

Veteran communist politician Khadga Prasad Oli was sworn in as Nepal’s prime minister Monday, after his predecessor and former coalition partner Pushpa Kamal Dahal lost a vote of confidence last week, Agence France-Presse reported. Oli, head of the Communist Party of Nepal – Unified Marxist Leninist...

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