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Description: Students and other enraged civilians took to the streets in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, after the government’s decision to block access to social media platforms last week, over regulatory and compliance issues. The protests, labeled by the public as Generation Z and Nepo Kids demonstrations, erupted in several cities across the small Asian country with 19 people losing their lives in the violent clashes with the riot police which had reportedly been authorized to use live munition to suppress the demonstrations. Protesters ran riots across several suburbs of the capital, entered the Parliamentary complex and torched several properties pertaining to the country’
Description: Six people were killed and fifteen were injured in a shooting in East Jerusalem conducted by two Palestinians. According to eyewitnesses the attack unfolded rapidly as the two attackers were quick to insert themselves in the busy highway where they started targeting civilians. The attack arrives in a sensitive period for the war in the Gaza Strip, as US President Donald Trump had issued a warning to Hamas to release all the remaining hostages claiming that Israel has accepted the latest US ceasefire proposal. The backlash of the East Jerusalem attack could drive the peace initiative to the ground as the expected response to Israel would be to intensify and escal
Description: France’s Parliament has ousted Prime Minister Bayrou as the country tilts towards experiencing a protracted crisis and pressure grows on President Emmanuel Macron to resign. Bayrou stated his intention to call for the failed vote of confidence, over France’s budget cuts and debt crisis which has exceeded 3.3 billion euros which equaled 114% of the nation’s GDP. Macron’s office has issued a statement that a new Prime Minister would be appointed in the next couple of days following Bayrou’s ouster, while he would remain in a governmental caretaking capacity. Political parties in France, especially the far – right National Rally party and the far – left Unbowed, ha
Description: Following Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s resignation, the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party is expected to choose its next leader and subsequently Japan’s next Prime Minister for the upcoming period. Ishiba’s resignation came as a result of LDP’s losses in both votes of Parliament, the Upper and the Lower Houses, which forced the party to rule from a position of minority and be obliged to form a coalition larger than the one with its junior partner Komeito in order to introduce legislature. The most likely candidates to succeed Ishiba are Sanae Takaichi, who marginally lost the last leadership election to Ishiba, Shinjiro Koizumi, the current Minister of Agricu
Description: The Ethiopian government has announced its plans to inaugurate the long-awaited mega dam project called the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The project, which has been under heavy criticism from Egypt and Sudan, is expected to cost around $5 billion and store around 64 billion cubic meters of water, capable of powering the entire 130 million nation with consistent energy supply. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, introduced the project as Ethiopia’s national restructuring on the global stage, as the country’s renewable energy capabilities would surmount its demand and Ethiopia would be able to outsource large amounts of its produced electricity to neighboring co
Description: More than 800 people were arrested attending a pro – Palestine protest on Saturday by London’s Metropolitan police. The protesters rallied against the governments decision to ban the organization Palestine Action and designate it a terrorist organization. The protests follow last week’s unrest regarding the country’s migration crisis and Prime Minister Starmer’s cabinet reshuffling, following the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, over a tax scandal. London subway workers have also announced collective protests beginning on 07 Sep, with major travel disruptions expected in London. The subway workers have expressed their displeasure in the gover
Description: US President Donald Trump, announced that he would meet certain European leaders this week, where discussion would be held to impose a new wave of sanctions on Russia in order to hamper the country’s abilities to continue the war in Ukraine. Trump has so far refused to resort towards growing economic pressure on Russia, however, the latest wave of aerial attacks on Ukraine’s capital has allegedly convinced the US President of undertaking additional measures to draw Russia closer to the negotiating table. Russia launched more than a thousand drones and 80 cruise ballistic missiles which resulted in the deaths of at least four people and inflamed Ukraine’s Parliam
Description: Members of Turkey’s largest oppositional party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), clashed with riot police in front of the party’s Istanbul headquarters, after an Istanbul Court ruled to dismiss Ozgur Celik, the party’s latest leader. The Court additionally appointed Gursel Tekin as the party’s leader, a move which was criticized by the entire party which claimed Tekin to have been expelled from CHP. CHP party members barricaded the entrances of the headquarters in Istanbul before clashing with the riot police, which used pepper spray and riot shields to disperse the protesters while also barricading the party’s headquarters. The protests arrive after months
Description: Mali’s military forces have reported clashes with militants affiliated with Al Qaeda near the capital Bamako and other cities bordering Senegal and Mauritania such as Kayes and Nioro. Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) have started enforcing logistical and transportational blockades across several key roads in Mali on the country’s fuel and oil shipments. The region where the attacks happened is also rich in natural resources such as gold and rare earth minerals which emphasizes JNIM’s escalation of control and operational outreach against the junta – led government in Mali. The military has stated that airstrikes were conducted combined with ground off
Description: Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store and his Labor party managed to resist the country’s growing right wing populist movements and secure a dominant presence in Parliament. Store’s party managed to secure 80 seats out of the 85 necessary to form a majority government, which meant it would have to make concessions to smaller parties in order to form Norway’s next government. Labor would have 53 seats in Parliament with the Progress party coming in second with 48 seats, while the Conservative party had its worst elections in the last 20 years, gaining only 24 seats in Parliament. Store would extend his mandate as Prime Minister, however, he is faced with grow