Polish lawmakers approved a law that partially alters a controversial system for disciplining judges, a move observers described as an attempt by Poland to gain access to billions of euros from the European Union’s pandemic recovery fund, Politico reported. The lower house of parliament voted in...
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The founder of one of the world’s most infamous terrorist groups in the 1970s walked free from a Japanese prison Saturday after serving a 20-year sentence, apologizing for the damage she and her group had inflicted on the innocent decades ago, Sky News reported. Fusako Shigenobu,...
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A French court charged the former head of the Louvre museum in Paris with fraud this week over his alleged role in trafficking millions of dollars worth of art, the Washington Post reported. The court accused Jean-Luc Martinez of “complicity in fraud” and “false facilitation of...
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang held a large nationwide teleconference this week with more than 100,000 local officials to bolster the country’s economy which has been deeply impacted by the government’s restrictive anti-Covid measures, CNBC reported Thursday. Li told the officials during the "emergency meeting" that the...
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The Gambia will prosecute former President Yahya Jammeh for a series of crimes committed during his decades-long regime, a decision that many human rights advocates and victims described as “unprecedented,” Al Jazeera reported Thursday. The Gambian government said this week that it accepted all but two...
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A hospital fire in western Senegal killed 11 newborn babies this week, a tragedy that has prompted outrage over the country’s poor medical facilities, NBC News reported Thursday. The fire took place in the neonatology department of the Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh Hospital in the...
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A trove of leaked files detailing the mistreatment of Muslim Uyghurs is providing new details on China’s crackdown on the community and cast a shadow over a six-day visit by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. The...
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A long-awaited report focusing on the lockdown-violating parties held in British government offices blamed Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other senior officials for “failures of leadership and judgment,” Axios reported. Senior civil servant Sue Gray released a scathing report Wednesday following an investigation into 16 events...
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Iran had access to confidential reports by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog almost two decades ago, which were used by top officials to prepare cover stories and forge records to hide suspected past work on nuclear weapons, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. A series of...
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Israel will appeal a decision by a lower court this week in favor of three Jewish minors who prayed at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound and questioned a long-standing arrangement with Muslim authorities that prevents Jewish prayer at the contested holy site, Reuters reported. Earlier this week,...
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared a state of emergency Tuesday, a move many critics fear will tighten his control of the European Union country, Bloomberg reported. The declaration came shortly after Orban pushed through a constitutional amendment that allows his administration to rule by decree...
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Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to set up a border commission this week, a move aimed at ending a decades-long dispute over the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, Al Jazeera reported Tuesday. The move followed a meeting between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham...
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China condemned the United States on Monday after President Joe Biden warned that the US would intervene militarily to defend Taiwan if Beijing attempted a takeover of the island, CNN reported. During a joint news conference with Japan’s prime minister, Biden said that it was “(not)...
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Belgium became the first country to introduce quarantine measures for monkeypox patients amid concerns that the disease is spreading across the globe, CNBC reported Monday. Belgian health authorities ordered a 21-day quarantine after the country reported its third case of the virus. As of Monday, Belgium...
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Ethiopian authorities arrested thousands of people this week in what human rights groups have described as a crackdown on militia fighters, journalists and critics of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s administration, the Associated Press reported. Security officials said Monday they detained more than 4,500 individuals in the...
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The opposition Labor Party won Australia’s federal election over the weekend, ending nine years of conservative rule by the Liberal-National coalition of outgoing Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Nikkei Asia reported. Preliminary results showed that Labor secured 72 seats in the lower house of parliament, while the...
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Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder resigned as chair of the board of Russian state energy giant Rosneft over the weekend amid tremendous pressure in Europe to eschew the income from Russia or face sanctions, the Washington Post reported. Rosneft said in a statement that the former...
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British Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, ended their three-day tour to Canada this week, a visit that was marked by acknowledging the plight of the country’s Indigenous community, especially past wrongs, the Canadian Press reported. Charles’ and Camilla’s visit was part of...
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Iran is reviewing a request to delay the execution of an Iranian-born Swedish academic convicted of espionage in a case that has garnered international condemnation, the Washington Post reported Thursday. The case is related to Ahmadreza Jalali, a disaster-medicine doctor who was detained while traveling to...
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Zimbabwe is proposing to sell its stockpile of seized ivory to gather funds needed for the conservation of its rapidly increasing elephant population, the Associated Press reported. Wildlife officials in the central African nation appealed to foreign diplomats and the international community to support the sale...
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