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The deposed leader of Turkey’s main opposition on Tuesday announced plans to establish a new political party to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The announcement came months after Ozgur Ozel was removed from his post as leader of the Republican People’s Party, or CHP, by a court order — a...

Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega said his country won’t be holding elections anytime soon, a statement underscoring the strongman’s efforts to extend his nearly 20-year rule and dashing hopes by the opposition that he might heed their demands for a democratic vote. The announcement effectively...

The Kosovo Prosecutorial Council, KPC, on Monday denied the requests of several Serb prosecutors to return to their posts, nearly four years after Kosovo Serbs staged a mass resignation from Kosovo institutions in 2022. Chief State Prosecutor Zejnullah Gashi told the KPC meeting on Monday that while...

More than 500 people are feared dead after reports that two boats carrying members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority have capsized in the Bay of Bengal, officials said Thursday. According to preliminary information, the two boats left Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine in late June carrying...

A three-month mass trial of hundreds of alleged gang members of MS-13 wrapped up Wednesday in El Salvador, with prosecutors delivering their closing arguments and asking for maximum sentences. The proceedings against 485 members of the international criminal Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, gang on...

The Croatian parliament on Wednesday adopted a resolution proposed by the far-right Homeland Movement, which the party’s president and deputy speaker of parliament, Ivan Penava, said sends a message that Croatia will not stand by while the “electoral will” of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina is...

El Salvador’s ruling party on Monday ratified President Nayib Bukele’s candidacy for February 2027 presidential elections, paving the way for a third consecutive term that has been highly criticized by lawyers and human rights advocates. Bukele’s party Nuevas Ideas, which holds a supermajority in...

The United Nations refugee agency is investigating reports that two boats carrying members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority have capsized in the Bay of Bengal. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said in a statement Tuesday that the boats reportedly departed Myanmar’s western state of...

Mexico has said that it will request that criminal charges be filed in United States courts after more than a dozen of its citizens were killed by US immigration authorities or died in their custody. On Monday, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that the requests were being formally lodged with...

The European Union on Tuesday condemned the “inflammatory” statement of a Serbian government minister supporting the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo Albanians during the 1998-99 war. Snezana Paunovic, Minister for Local Government, on Monday told the Belgrade-based Kurir that she “would have ethnically...