Al-monitor
- Feb 28
Turkey's Kurds Say Gov't Obstructing Quake Relief
Turkey's Kurdish opposition says government obstructing quake relief efforts - by Andrew Wilks for Al Monitor This photograph taken on Feb. 22, 2023, shows a crane demolishing a damaged building and a helicopter flying in the background, in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey. - ILYAS AKENGIN/AFP via Getty Images DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — At a disaster center in the heart of southeast Turkey, staff rush about answering phones, furiously tapping messages and calling out questions to co
The Gaurdian
- Feb 27
Fiji opposition leader suspended from parliament
By: Lavenia Lativerata-Vuadreu Frank Bainimarama had accused the president of failing to uphold the constitution. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/EPA Fiji’s opposition leader and its long-serving former prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, has been suspended from parliament for three years for sedition and insulting the president. The suspension came days after he launched an extraordinary verbal attack on the country’s president, Ratu Wiliame Katonivere. In a provocative first speech
Reuters
- Feb 25
Peru prosecutor opens corruption probe of Castillo
February 21, 20235:32 PM EST LIMA, Feb 21 (Reuters) - An investigation of criminal allegations against former Peru President Pedro Castillo from before he was ousted and detained in December for attempting to illegally dissolve Congress has been formalized, the country's top prosecutor's office said on Tuesday. Castillo is accused of crimes including influence peddling, organized crime and being an accomplice to collusion committed during his administration. The decision from
The Associated Press
- Feb 25
Guatemalans protest ban on presidential candidate
February 21, 2023 UATEMALA CITY (AP) — Thousands of people demonstrated in Guatemala Tuesday to protest a court’s decision not to allow an indigenous candidate to register for the country’s June 25 presidential elections. Protesters blocked at least 15 local highways, demanding that the leftist candidate be allowed to run. Thelma Cabrera was to have been the presidential candidate for the leftist Peoples Liberation Movement, or MLP. The dispute arose when Guatemala’s electora
Reuters
- Feb 25
Migrants living in toxic dump in Chile
Chile’s Cerro Chuño neighbourhood has become notorious for environmental pollution and dangerous criminal activity. Mireia Godoy, 74, no longer remembers what her neighbourhood used to be called when she arrived more than 20 years ago. “Now they named it Cerro Chuño and nobody wants to come here. Before, we used to have buses and everything at our doorstep,” she said. It looks as if a war has ravaged the main street of Cerro Chuño, a slum in the east of Arica, a city in north
Nathaniel Hill
- Feb 24
Genocide Emergency: Azerbaijan’s Blockade of Artsakh
By Nathaniel Hill Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian (left), Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (right), and U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken (center) attend trilateral talks in Munich on February 18. Genocide Watch is issuing a Genocide Emergency for Azerbaijan’s ongoing blockade against the Armenian-populated region of Artsakh. The blockade has created a dire humanitarian crisis among the 120,000 people living in Artsakh and is a clear attempt by the Azerbaijani gov
openDemocracy
- Feb 24
Asylum Seekers and NGOs allege abuse in Greek detention
Exclusive: Three reports provide new evidence of migrants and asylum seekers being systematically detained and abused Melissa Pawson, openDemocracy 23 February 2023 Greek police officers detain migrants in Athens in 2022 | Pacific Press Media Production Corp/Alamy Stock Photo. All rights reserved When Fardin Hosseini arrived in Athens in August 2021, he thought he’d reached a place of safety. The 34-year-old had fled persecution in Iran, escaping by car through Turkey and on
bne IntelliNews
- Feb 24
Is Serbia’s far right an authentic opposition movement?
By Milivoje Pantovic, bne IntelliNews February 20, 2023 Riot police block Damjan Knezevic and fellow protesters in Belgrade on February 15. Serbian far-right groups and pro-Russian extremists held a protest around the presidency in Belgrade on February 15. The protest almost turned violent on several occasions, especially when fake news started to circulate among the gathered crowd that a pregnant woman had been arrested. Some of the extremists even tried to storm to the buil
The Associated Press
- Feb 24
Trial opens for former Kosovo fighter accused of war crimes
By MIKE CORDER, AP News February 21, 2023 Former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA ) member Pjeter Shala attends his trial at the Kosovo Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesaday, Feb. 21, 2023. (Piroschka van de Wouw/Pool photo via AP) THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A former fighter with the Kosovo Liberation Army was responsible for the murder of one person and the illegal detention and torture of nearly 20 more during his country’s war for independence from Serbia, an internat
U.S. Amb. Condemns Bosnian Serb Leader's Genocide Denial
By RFE/RL's Balkan Service February 22, 2023 Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik (file photo) The U.S. ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina has issued a scathing condemnation of longtime Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik's latest denial of a genocide in the massacre of 8,000 men and boys at Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia in 1995, calling such efforts "reprehensible," illegal, and destabilizing. Ambassador Michael Murphy said in a video statement via Twitter on February 22 that Dodik'
Asbarez Staff
- Feb 24
ICJ orders Azerbaijan to open Lachin Corridor
By Asbarez Staff Reading of the ICJ ruling “The Court observes that, since 12 December 2022, the connection between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia via the Lachin Corridor has been disrupted. The Court notes that a number of consequences have resulted from this situation and that the impact on those affected persists to this date,” the court said in reading its decision. “The information available to the Court indicates that the disruption on the Lachin Corridor has impeded the
