Day: August 20, 2022

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Resigns Amid Mass Protests

On July 14th, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa sent a letter via email to the parliamentary speaker announcing he would be stepping down from office, a day after fleeing the country to the Maldives and then Singapore.  With this resignation, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as interim president

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President And Pariah: Biden Fist-Bumps Saudi Crown Prince

President Joe Biden rounded off a less-than-convincing tour of the Middle East with a high-stakes visit to Saudi Arabia. This was shortly after having made little diplomatic headway in Israel and the West Bank – Israeli missiles struck a Gaza arms factory hours after the president had left the occupied

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Russia’s Alexei Navalny Launches International Anti-Corruption Fund

A year after his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) was outlawed as extremist by the Kremlin, long-time staunch critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Alexei Navalny, has created a new international anti-corruption fund. It is somewhat unclear whether this is a new concept, or whether it is a rebrand of the original

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Release Turkish Prisoner of Conscience Osman Kavala

On Monday July 11th, the grand chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Turkey had violated the European Convention on Human Rights by not complying with the ruling that demanded the release of philanthropist Osman Kavala. The court argued that Kavala’s detention had been carried out

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