Newsletter Archive

The Republican-led House of Representatives has passed a temporary spending bill that gives U.S. President Donald Trump $5 billion for a border wall. The House voted 217-185 late Thursday in hopes of averting a government shutdown at midnight Friday.

A new land conflict is threatening to erupt in Myanmar, where land is so sought after that even a cemetery can be eyed by developers.

While the European Court of Human Rights has demanded the release of Selahattin Demirtas, a former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, Turkish courts convicted him of spreading terrorist propaganda, which some analysts and rights groups view as Ankara attempting to misuse the country’s counter terrorism laws to crack down on political dissidents.

The government in Afghanistan is playing down the significance of reported U.S. troop reduction plans, saying Afghan security forces are capable of protecting and defending the country on their own.

Cameroon has suspended 16 journalists and seven news outlets for periods ranging from one month to six months for what it calls media offenses.