Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby has announced that U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will add a stop in Bulgaria to his European trip, which began on March 15th. Secretary Austin is visiting the continent to participate in the N.A.T.O. Defence Ministerial in Brussels and to reassure key allies in Eastern Europe.
On March 6th, Juan Gerardo Treviño, leader of Cártel del Noreste (Northeast Cartel) and also known as El Huevo (“The Egg”), was arrested in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. He currently faces U.S. extraditions for money laundering and drug trafficking. In addition to these charges, Treviño faces extortion and
Last week, human rights advocates in Hungary staged an attempt to invalidate the LGBTQ+ referendum pushed by current prime minister Viktor Orbán. The human rights groups are asking Hungarian citizens to cast invalid votes at the referendum to prevent the proposal from reaching the required quorum. Any proposal in Hungary
A Tunisian military judge has finally ordered the release of jailed lawyer Abderrazak Errazak Kilani, a major, outspoken critic of Tunisia’s President Kais Saied. Kilani was detained earlier for “inciting the police to break the law,” according to the National News (MENA), and will be consequently released from prison as
On April 3rd, Hungary will hold elections for its National Assembly, and Viktor Orban, the current Prime Minister since 2010, faces his greatest organized opposition yet. The far-right, social democrats, green, and liberal parties have all thrown their support behind one candidate, Peter Marki-Zay, in an attempt to end Orban’s
Efforts to establish a humanitarian corridor to the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol have once again been delayed. Despite an agreed-upon bi-lateral ceasefire, a Red Cross humanitarian convoy was forced to turn back due to a lack of security assurances near Mariupol. The 45-bus convoy sought to alleviate the city
