Israel’s opposition and protest movement assailed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for seeking more control over the selection of judges, in what’s emerging as the next fault line in the government’s efforts to push through a divisive judicial overhaul.
India’s top court has set up a three member panel of retired high court women judges to oversee investigations into the deadly violence in the northeastern state of Manipur.
Brazil analysts cut their interest rate forecasts for this year and next after central bankers launched a monetary easing cycle with a bold half-a-percentage point cut last week.
There is a long history of leaders prosecuted before, during and after holding power with representation across continents.
Poland’s Border Guard has asked the government to send additional 1,000 soldiers to the country’s border with Belarus amid a “rising migrant pressure,” a senior Polish official said on Monday.
China last week unleashed some of its strongest criticism against Russia since Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. Yet any suggestion that Xi Jinping is shifting his view on the war amounts to wishful thinking.
Romania kept borrowing costs steady for a fifth consecutive meeting as lingering inflation and fiscal risks keep the prospect of potential easing on hold.
Pheu Thai, a party linked to former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, has joined hands with conservative Bhumjaithai Party to form a government and break a political stalemate that’s gripped the Southeast Asian nation since the May general election.
Striking minibus taxi drivers are wreaking havoc in Cape Town, South Africa’s second-largest city and main tourist hub, blocking off roads and preventing thousands of people from getting to work.
Beijing concert-goers say they were prevented from displaying rainbow imagery at a pop singer’s performance on Saturday, in a sign of increasing tightening on LGBTQ expression in China.
