Loading
Description: France has difficulties in entangling itself from the revolving political crisis as Sebastien Lecornu, the country’s latest Prime Minister, resigned after only 27 days in office. In his brief statement after the resignation, Lecornu claimed that untamed partisan appetites and the growing inability to find a political consensus around existential issues that France is currently facing forced him to resign. Lecornu is the fifth Prime Minister in the last couple of years to resign under political pressure which positioned President Emmanuel Macron in an impossible situation where he would have to appoint a new Prime Minister, call for early elections or resign hims
Description: Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa is facing growing domestic scrutiny after cutting diesel subsidies causing for the fuel prices to go up from $1.80 to $2.80 per gallon last week. The protesting has been ongoing for almost a week with severe escalation in the capital Quito after the government declared a state of emergency across 10 provinces in the country. The pro – government protests were also present in the capital in higher numbers with government officials such as the Minister of Government, Zaida Rovira and Edgar Lama, the President of the Social Security Board, stating that minorities who manifest their demands through violence would be met with suppress
Description: Trump’s anti – immigration policies have substantially escalated after the White House announced that the President planned to additionally deploy members of the US National Guard in Portland and Chicago. Shortly after ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents encountered protesters in Chicago, Trump authorized the deployment of approximately 300 National Guard troops, while Illinois Governor, JB Pritzker, stated that a lawsuit has been filed against the deployment of the National Guard and accused President Trump of manufacturing a domestic crisis. Local residents in Chicago have stated that in almost every case, the National Guard or the ICE agents have
Description: Al Qaeda affiliate terrorist group, Al Shabab, has conducted one of its most sophisticated operations to date, infiltrating Somalia’s Godka Jilacow prison, operated by Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA). The terrorists infiltrated the prison bearing valid credentials from NISA and were additionally disguised by a marked vehicle, enabling them to gain access to the inner space of the prison. They initially attacked by detonating the explosive laden vehicle while breaching the door of the prison, where up to seven militants conducted an additional armed assault, freeing most of the prisoners and laying siege to the building for several hour
Description: Violent protests in Madagascar continued with police forces clashing with protesters on the streets of the country’s capital, Antananarivo. President Andry Rajoelina has repeatedly ignored calls to resign blaming foreign influence and NGOs for bankrolling the demonstrations aiming to gain access to Madagascar’s vas mineral resources. Rajoelina also appointed Major General, Ruphin Fortunat Dimbisoa Zafisambo, to be the country’s new Prime Minister. The President stated that the public needed someone with public credibility, integrity to deliver rapid results and address the growing issues in the country. The protesters have so far failed to mobilize into a compre
Description: Delegations from Qatar, Egypt, the US and Hamas met in Sharm El Sheikh, where the initial indirect negotiations commenced on implementing Donald Trump’s 20 – point Gaza peace plan. The negotiations were reportedly held until the late hours of 06 Oct between US Special envoy Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the heads of the Israeli Mossad and Shin Bet, Israel’s foreign policy advisor Ophir Falk and hostage coordinator Gal Hirsch, Hamas was represented by their leader in exile, Khalil Al Hayya. Initial reports from the meeting were scarce with major sticking points remaining to be discussed over the next day, where Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs, Ron Derm
Description: Police forces clashed with protesters in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, amid the crumbling of the local elections which were widely boycotted by the opposition parties. The ruling Georgian Dream party claimed victory in almost every voting station of the 3.7 million Caucasus nation which has been engulfed in a political crisis for over a year. Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, claimed that EU – sponsored coup attempt has been avoided, and many people were imprisoned on treason charges since they directly attempted at toppling the elected government. The country has been experiencing a protracted political crisis since last year’s election that the pro – EU oppositi
Description: Populist ANO leader Andrej Babis has been reelected as the Czech Republic’s new Prime Minister in the latest general elections. Babis, who served as Prime Minister between 2017 and 2021 announced that he would begin coalition talks with parties such as the Motorists and the SPD which are a combination of anti – immigration, anti – EU and anti – NATO parties. ANO would have to form a broader coalition in order to secure majority in Parliament in order not to be contested or its decisions consistently blocked by a potential majority in the oppositional bloc. ANO is also part of the Patriots of Europe conservative bloc of parties within the EU, where the party is a
Description: The country held its first post – Assad parliamentary elections where up to two thirds of Syria’s People's Assembly (Parliament) would be chosen through public voting. The voting was conceptualized as indirect, since most of the information regarding the population in the country is outdated while candidates were chosen through electoral colleges which are expected to deliver around 140 candidates in Syria’s parliament. President Ahmed Al Sharaa would choose the remaining 70 parliamentary representatives after the public voting process is finished. The transitional Syrian government also stated that elections won’t be held in the cities of Suweyda, Raqqah and Ha
Description: Following the US President’s ultimatum, Hamas has issued a statement which was described as accepting the agreement around the conceptualized core principles of peace and cessation of hostilities. In the statement issued by Hamas, the group has agreed to release the remaining Israeli hostages, dead or alive, exclude itself from the future government of the Gaza Strip and engage in negotiations which would iron out the remaining disputable points of the peace agreement. In their response, Hamas has failed to address the issues of the disarmament of their armed wing, ignored the points of the future security architecture of the enclave, i.e., the presence of inte