El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Wednesday signed a controversial electoral reform into law that will slash the number of seats in the country’s Legislative Assembly from 84 to 60. President Bukele and his party Nuevas Ideas argue that the measure will cut costs and promote greater efficiency. However, El Salvador’s opposition says that the reforms [...]

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A spokesman for the Kremlin Dmitri Peskov announced on Sunday that journalists from ‘unfriendly countries’ were banned from covering St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) which is scheduled for mid June. The ban, announced just days before the event, effectively prohibits independent media organizations and critical journalists from reporting on one of Russia’s most prominent [...]

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A six-month Australian investigation Monday disclosed that 160 doctors, guilty of serious sexual assault claims from 2010, are still registered to practice by the Australian health system. The Four Corners investigation relied on published disciplinary decisions confirming cases of pedophilia, sexual misconduct and sexual harassment among others, towards both patients and colleagues. The 160 doctors [...]

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A Kenyan court Thursday convicted Venezuelan diplomat Dwight Sagaray on murder charges for a killing that occurred 11 years ago. The High Court of Kenya in Nairobi found Sagaray guilty of the July 2012 murder of Ambassador Olga Fonseca, whose body was found in her Nairobi, Kenya residence. Following the 2012 murder, the Venezuelan government [...]

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