ANKARA (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Hundreds of protesters took to the streets to the Greek consulate in Istanbul to protest the deaths of 19 migrants along the Turkish-Greek border on Saturday. They froze to death earlier this week, according to Turkish police,
TUNIS (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Tunisian President Kais Saied abolished the Supreme Judicial Council, the body in charge of judicial independence, on Sunday, a move that has raised concerns about the judiciary’s independence and is sure to enrage his critics. Saied’s ruling
RABAT (Parliament Politics Magazine) – The royal palace in Morocco has confirmed that a five-year-old child who was stranded for four days in a deep well and whose suffering captivated Moroccans has died. Rayan Awram, a young child from Ighrane, plunged 32
BEIJING (Parliament Politics Magazine): Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin signed a joint statement appealing the west to “give up the ideologised methods of the cold war, as the two leaders showed their warming friendship amidst a heated exchange with the west ahead
MOSCOW (Parliament Politics Magazine): Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the US of ignoring Russia’s demands of NATO not expanding eastward in his first remarks on soaring conflict over Ukraine in over a month. But he added that Moscow was keeping an open
LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine): Ever tried solving a riddle which has numerous clues missing? The situation is identical to Kremlin politics. To say the least, figuring out what Vladimir Putin is thinking and planning is difficult. That is the Kremlin’s preference: keeping
SEOUL (Parliament Politics Magazine): In 2021, South Korea’s economy grew at its strongest rate in 11 years, owing to increases in construction activity and exports, which offset decreases in capital investment and a delayed recovery in the coronavirus-affected service sectors. According to
ANKARA (Parliament Politics Magazine): An uncommon heavy snowfall over southeast Europe resulted in shutting down the Istanbul airport, and commuters were trapped in their cars around Athens. The snowstorm blanketed swaths of the eastern Mediterranean, triggering outages and traffic chaos. Europe’s busiest
NUKU’ALOFA (Parliament Politics Magazine): Following Saturday’s volcanic eruption and tsunami, stories of survival are beginning to emerge from Tonga. After telling a local radio station that he had to swim for more than a day to survive the tsunami, Lisala Folau’s story
BELGRADE (Parliament Politics Magazine): Serbia’s populist government decided to suspend all licences for mining company Rio Tinto, which intended opening a lithium mine near the town of Loznica in the country’s west to defuse huge demonstrations by environmentalists. In a televised statement
LISBON (Parliament Politics Magazine): On January 30, Portuguese voters who are quarantined due to Covid-19 will be eligible to vote, but they are advised to do so later in the day. The parliament of the Republican Assembly of Portugal, will elect 230
LONDON (Parliament Politics Magazine): The cost of living is growing significantly, not just in the UK but around the world, from buying groceries to heating our houses. Inflation, or the rate at which prices rise, has reached new highs since 2008. The
