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Description: The Block Everything protest movement started in several cities across France, such as Paris Nantes, Montpellier and Rennes. The outturn, despite being lower than expected, caused severe disruptions of public services across France, while the bulk of the protesters who were arrested caused significant disturbance in Paris and Rennes where they sporadically clashed with police forces, inflamed public property and caused damage to the electricity grid. The protests were a response to France’s revolving political crisis which inaugurated its fifth Prime Minister in Sebastien Lecornu in less than a two-year timespan. Lecornu’s appointment was disappointingly receive
Description: Charlie Kirk, the leader of the youth MAGA movement and the founder of the organization, Turning Point Action was assassinated while attending a rally at the Utah Valley University. The shooting happened as Kirk held a public debate on several subjects with attendees in the University campus conducted by a suspect who, according to law enforcement authorities, is still at large. The FBI and other law enforcement agencies spearheaded the efforts for apprehending the suspect as two individuals were arrested briefly after the fatal shooting but were immediately released due to lack of evidence connecting them to the assassination. Kirk was one of the leading conser
Description: The coup trial of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has drawn sharp divisions among the country’s population as the trial nears its conclusion. In the latest development, after two Supreme Court Judges ruled in favor of imprisoning Bolsonaro for planning an attempted coup after the 2022 elections, Judge Luiz Fux voted to acquit Bolsonaro of all charges. Fux explained at length that there was not enough conclusive evidence to indict Bolsonaro as the alleged coup attempt never materialized. Bolsonaro’s trial also positioned US President Donald Trump in the conversation, after lobbying attempts from Bolsonaro’s son, Eduardo, materialized as the US heavily cr
Description: Nepali President, Ram Chandra Paudel, has officially accepted the resignation from the Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli, following two days of spiraling violent protests in the country. The protests have rapidly escalated as the death toll officially rose to 22, while 150 other people were severely injured. Demonstrators lit several buildings on fire, including the country’s Parliament and the private houses of the ministers as the representatives were evacuated to a secure location. Several thousand protesters looted private houses and destroyed private and state property as their actions reflected the deep-rooted systemic issues in the country, primarily origina
Description: After the ouster of former Prime Minister, Francois Bayrou, France’s President, Emmanuel Macron, appointed Sebastien Lecornu the former Defense Minister as the country’s next Prime Minister. Lecornu’s appointment was received by predominantly negative sentiment among France’s political establishment with leaders such as Jordan Bardella, Olivier Faure and Jean Luc Melenchon stating that Macron was recycling policy and attempting to stubbornly pursue the same negative outcome once again. Bayrou’s ouster, instigated by the self-initiated vote of confidence on 08 Sep, plunged the country into immediate political and potentially constitutional crisis. Protests are ex
Description: The Israeli military has conducted an aerial attack on a compound in Qatar’s capital, Doha, where Hamas negotiating officials met with Qatari mediators. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu took full credit for the attack, designating it as a surgical precision strike based on remarkable intelligence from Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet and a retaliation for the bus shooting in East Jerusalem. Qatari Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al – Thani, vigorously criticized Israel’s flagrant violation of Qatar’s sovereignty and called it an illegal military operation which considerably diminished Qatar’s invested mediation efforts for the cess
Description: President Prabowo Subianto reshuffled the government’s Cabinet, replacing five ministers and appointing a controversial minister of finance as Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa replaced the incumbent Sri Mulyani Indrawati. Subianto also replaced the ministers of cooperatives, sport and youth and the migrant minister in what was perceived as a government restructuring aimed at appeasing the demands from the protesters who caused large – scale civil unrest in Indonesia in the past couple of weeks. The focal point of the restructuring was the finance minister as most of the demands from the protesters were focused on economic inequality, corruption stemmed from political favori
Description: Poland’s counterintelligence agency, ABW, in cooperation with their counterparts from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania uncovered an intelligence network suspected of originating from Belarus. Czech counterintelligence stated that the former Moldovan Deputy Head of Intelligence was the main information broker in the network, and the operability of the network was facilitated through mid – level diplomats spread across embassies in Eastern and Central Europe. The countermeasures proposed by the joint intelligence operation were to limit the movement of diplomats pertaining to Russian and Belorussian embassies and enhance counterintelligence efforts to subve
Description: Militants from the Islamic State – affiliated Allied Democratic Forces, killed more than 100 civilians attending a funeral in east DRC’s Ntoyo village. According to witness reports, ADF militants used machetes and guns to mutilate the civilians, while the Congolese army was late in the dispatch call due to security concerns in the eastern parts of the country caused by the M23 rebels. The ADF primarily operated in neighboring Uganda, however, the war in the mineral rich eastern DRC between the country’s military and the rebels has created a power vacuum which is heavily exploited by the terrorist group. The ADF or Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP), a
Description: The parallel government of Sudan, the Tassis Alliance, headed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), claimed responsibility for the attacks conducted in several cities across Khartoum State, which is under control of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). The SAF confirmed that an oil refinery was struck in Al – Jaili, while electricity plants were targeted in Al – Markhiyat and a substation in the city of Omdurman. Military factories were also targeted by drones in Al – Kalakla district and in the Wadi Seidna military area, hampering capacities and production capabilities in Sudan’s capital. The RSF claimed the attacks were a response to SAF’s targeting hospitals and civ