Echoes

May 182 min read

Taiwan lawmakers brawl in bitter dispute over parliament reforms

Taiwanese lawmakers shoved, tackled, and hit each other in parliament on Friday in a bitter dispute over reforms to the chamber

May 161 min read

Slovakia is 'on the edge of civil war' after PM Robert Fico's shooting, minister warns, as wife of 'lone wolf assassin, 71,' is taken away by police 'for her own protection'

Slovakia has been left 'on the edge of civil war', the country's interior minister has warned

May 162 min read

Five Pro-Wike Commissioners Resign From Fubara’s Cabinet

Five commissioners in Rivers State submitted their resignation letters to Governor Siminalayi Fubara, stepping down from their positions.

May 151 min read

Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico shot and rushed to hospital after ‘attempted assassination’

Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, has been injured in a shooting incident in the town of Handlova

May 151 min read

Portugal rejects far-right bid to charge president with treason over slavery reparations

Portugal's parliament dismissed a far-right proposal to charge President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa with treason for his support of reparations

May 153 min read

Jordan foils arms plot as kingdom caught in Iran-Israel shadow war

Jordan recently thwarted an alleged Iranian plot to smuggle weapons into the country, aiming to destabilize the monarchy.

May 151 min read

King Charles III unveils his first official portrait since his coronation

King Charles III has revealed the first official portrait of himself since ascending to the throne

May 152 min read

Swiss court convicts a former interior minister of Gambia for crimes against humanity

Switzerland's Federal Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced Gambian former interior minister Ousman Sonko to 20 years in prison

May 131 min read

2 Americans among 20 arrested at protest over nation of Georgia's future

The Interior Ministry reported 20 arrests, including three foreign citizens—a pair of U.S. nationals and a Russian.

May 132 min read

Unhappy Vatican staff expose lack of workers’ rights in rare challenge to the Pope

A group of 49 Vatican Museums employees has filed a collective complaint with the Vatican administration, seeking improvements in benefits

May 121 min read

50,000 protest Georgia’s foreign agent bill as US sounds alarm over ‘Kremlin-style’ law

Approximately 50,000 demonstrators marched peacefully through the Georgian capital amidst heavy rain on Saturday, protesting a "foreign agen

May 101 min read

Mozambique's president says northern town under Islamist attack

President Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique announced in a televised address that the country's army is engaged in a battle against Islamist insurg

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