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Hungary’s former prime minister Viktor Orbán declared on Wednesday that he and his far-right Fidesz party will lead a peaceful “resistance” movement against what he called the tyrannical exercise of power by the country’s new center-right government. Orbán was defeated in a blowout election in April...

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...

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...

After two days of U.S.-mediated talks in Rome, Lebanon and Israel took steps toward implementing “pilot zones” in southern Lebanon where Israeli forces would withdraw and turn over control to the Lebanese army, the U.S. State Department said. The latest Israel-Hezbollah war began when the Lebanese...

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 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...

Nicaragua’s government has stripped masses of lawyers of their licenses to practice in recent days, in what a United Nations expert described Friday as a “purge of the legal profession” aimed at eroding the country’s final shreds of democratic checks and balances. The government of husband-and-wife...

Drone strikes on civilian vehicles headed to social gatherings in Sudan have killed more than 20 people in recent days, rights groups said, as the use of unmanned aircraft becomes increasingly common in the north eastern African country’s war. A drone strike on a road west of Omdurman on the...

The war in Sudan has killed or wounded more than 300 children in the last six months, mostly from drone strikes, the UN children’s agency said Monday. The Sudanese military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been fighting since April 2023. The war is now concentrated in the Kordofan...