Critics say the announcement is a sham designed to maintain the junta’s power through proxy parties.
Category: World
Pope Francis responding well to treatment, Vatican says
The 88-year-old prayed on Saturday morning in the chapel of the papal suite at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, the Vatican said.
Russian strikes kill at least 25, Ukraine says
Russia has stepped up attacks in recent days as the US paused military and intelligence aid to Kyiv.
Afghan women who fled Taliban to study abroad face return after USAID freeze
US aid funding enabled thousands of Afghan women to study abroad or online, but many of these programmes are now suspended.
They lost 52 soldiers fighting alongside the US. Now they feel threatened by Trump
Danes, who have been loyal allies of Washington, are blindsided by Trump’s insistence on taking over Greenland.
Canadian serial killer’s victim found in landfill
Morgan Harris, 39, was one of four indigenous women killed in 2022 by a convicted murderer.
Vital leprosy drugs due in Nigeria after year delay
Newly diagnosed patients may have suffered irreversible damage as a result of not having the drugs.
South Korea’s impeached president Yoon released from detention
Yoon Suk Yeol still faces trial on insurrection charges for his failed attempt to impose martial law.
European leaders back ‘realistic’ Arab plan for Gaza
The foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Britain welcomed the plan, which calls for Gaza to be rebuilt over five years.
How spy ring did Russia’s dirty work from the UK
A spy cell tracked the Kremlin’s enemies across Europe, plotting honeytraps, kidnap and murder.