Cubans voted in favor of changing the country’s family code this week in a referendum that would also allow same-sex marriage in the communist country, Reuters reported Tuesday. The national election commission said nearly 67 percent of voters approved changes to the family code, while 33...
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The Spanish government plans to introduce a temporary tax rate hike on the country’s wealthiest one percent starting next year in an effort to alleviate the impact of soaring inflation and rising costs, the Associated Press reported. Officials in the Socialist-led coalition government said the new...
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A gunman killed at least 17 people, including 11 children, at a school in central Russia on Monday, the latest school shooting in a country where such tragedies are relatively uncommon, the Washington Post reported. The shooting took place in the Russian city of Izhevsk with...
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Brothers of Italy, a party with neo-fascist roots, took the largest share of the votes in Italy’s elections Sunday, a win that has raised fears over a Eurosceptic party governing a founding member of the European Union and the bloc’s third-largest economy, the Associated Press...
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Chinese authorities have ordered long-distance bus drivers in the capital to wear electronic wristbands to monitor their physical and emotional states, a move that has sparked concerns among privacy rights advocates, South China Morning Post reported this week. Last week, the state-run Beijing Public Transport Holding...
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Prime Minister Yair Lapid expressed support for the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, the first Israeli leader to explicitly endorse a two-state solution to the long-running conflict in years, the Wall Street Journal reported. “An agreement with the Palestinians, based on two states for...
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Cubans voted in a referendum Sunday that would revamp family rights and legalize same-sex marriage in the communist country, a move considered the most progressive in Latin America and one that defies a long tradition of machismo in Cuba, the Washington Post reported. The proposed new...
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The Central African Republic’s top court annulled a commission for constitutional reform over the weekend, dealing a blow to President Faustin-Archange Touadera’s attempts to remove presidential term limits, Reuters reported. In May, Touadera’s supporters proposed plans to amend the constitution to remove term limits, saying the...
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Cambodia’s UN-backed tribunal for the Khmer Rouge upheld a conviction against the former regime’s last surviving leader Thursday, in what appears to be the final judgment of the court, the Guardian reported. The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) rejected an appeal by the...
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Lebanese banks will remain closed “indefinitely” following a string of heists and robberies by angry bank customers trying to access their blocked savings, the Financial Times reported. The country’s banking association said Thursday that the financial institutions would stay shut “in the absence of assurances” from...
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Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called for snap presidential elections, aiming to extend his rule and implement a series of reforms in the oil-rich Central Asian nation, Al Jazeera reported. The election date is set to take place on Nov. 20 and comes shortly after Kazakhstan approved...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial military draft Wednesday, a move that would put the nation’s people and economy on a wartime footing amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, CNBC reported. Putin announced that “mobilization events” would begin, adding that he had previously ordered a...
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Eritrea launched a full-scale offensive in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray this week, an escalation from last month’s resumption of fighting against Tigrayan forces, Euronews reported. Tigrayan officials called on residents to prepare for war, saying the region was facing an “existential challenge.” They added that...
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Denmark will direct about $13 million to vulnerable nations that have suffered “loss and damage” from climate change, becoming the first country in the United Nations to do so, the Washington Post reported. Danish Development Minister Flemming Møller Mortensen made the announcement Tuesday as world leaders...
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Iranian authorities launched a violent crackdown on protesters demonstrating over the death of a 22-year-old woman who died in the custody of the country’s “morality police,” the Washington Post reported Tuesday. The newspaper reported that five protesters allegedly died after being fired upon by police. The unrest...
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Army helicopters killed at least 13 people, including seven children, at a school in central Myanmar this week, the latest outbreak of violence as the country’s military junta continues its brutal crackdown against opposition movements, Reuters reported Tuesday. Media reports said the incident occurred Friday at...
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Equatorial Guinea abolished the death penalty this week, a move that has been described as “historic” in a nation that is infamously known as one of the world’s most authoritarian countries, Agence France-Presse reported. Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue confirmed via social media that President...
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Thousands of Moldovans took part in anti-government protests this week against high inflation and soaring fuel prices that have been exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Euractiv reported Monday. About 20,000 people demonstrated in the capital Chișinău’s main square against the government of pro-Western President Maia...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the governments of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to de-escalate military tensions, days after the two Central Asian neighbors engaged in deadly border clashes that left scores of people dead, Politico reported. On Wednesday, the two former Soviet republics began fighting along their...
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Thousands of Haitians are facing water shortages this week following days of nationwide riots that virtually halted the distribution of water, with concern growing that the crisis will be worsened by an approaching hurricane, Reuters reported. Mass violent protests erupted in the Caribbean country last week...
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