The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) called Tuesday for Senegal to reverse its decision to delay its presidential election by 10 months. President Macky Sall’s move to delay the Feb. 25 vote raised immediate concern from human rights watchdogs and
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president on Wednesday condemned media reports that the U.S. government launched an abortive investigation into claims that drug traffickers may have contributed money to his failed 2006 campaign. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador immediately interpreted the reports
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that authorities in Greece violated the privacy rights of a group of women who were arrested and publicly identified in 2012 as HIV-positive prostitutes who allegedly endangered public health. The case was brought to
China’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Philippine ambassador to denounce President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s congratulatory message to Taiwan’s president-elect, Lai Ching-te. Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said that Marcos’s remarks violated political commitments made by the Philippines to China. China claims Taiwan as its
Iraq has condemned the United States after U.S. forces carried out a drone strike in central Baghdad on Thursday that killed a high-ranking militia commander. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said Friday that the U.S. targeting and killing Mushtaq Taleb al-Saidi
The Russian Orthodox Church reaffirmed its strict opposition to abortion this week, putting it at odds with the Kremlin’s more relaxed position. A spokesperson for the church released a statement on Wednesday clarifying that the Holy Synod — the church’s governing body
Nigel Farage has slammed Poland’s pro-EU government after it seized control of state media in the country. Poland’s new government yesterday began wrestling control of the country’s state media and some other state agencies from the Conservative Party which had consolidated its
Ireland’s government condemned the recent burning of a hotel meant to house 70 migrants outside of Galway in the west of the country as a suspected arson attack. “I am deeply concerned about recent reports of suspected criminal damage at a number
Rishi Sunak has condemned “wholly unacceptable” actions by both far-right groups and the minority of “Hamas sympathisers” on the pro-Palestinian march, while putting pressure on police by saying “all criminality must be met with the full and swift force of the law”.
At an eight-course state banquet in Nairobi on the first day of a state visit to Kenya King Charles tackled head on the controversy over the British colonial administration’s torture and suppression of Mau Mau suspects during the Emergency of 1952-60. The