Supporters of Bolivia’s former President Evo Morales took more than 200 soldiers hostage on Saturday. The Bolivian Foreign Ministry reported that they occupied three military facilities in the province of Chapare during protests on Friday and accused them of possessing weapons and ammunition. 30 police officers are reportedly injured and more than 50 protesters were [...]

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A Dutch court ordered the Central Organ for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) to pay the municipality of Westerwolde 50,000 euros per day that its Ter Apel asylum seeker reception center exceeds 2,000 occupants, local media reported Wednesday. The potential penalty could reach up to 5 million euros in total. The COA reported that [...]

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Ireland’s lower house of parliament, the Dáil Éireann, voted to “take note” of the final report of the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying (JCAD), with 76 votes for and 53 against, on Thursday. The vote has no legal effect but indicates support for legislation in the area. It is up to both houses of parliament [...]

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A 49-year-old man named Atsunobu Usuda reportedly threw several firebombs at the headquarters of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the Nagatacho district of Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward, and rammed a van into a barricade at the nearby Prime Minister’s office on Saturday. According to local media, he threw five of what appeared to be [...]

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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that Italy did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights by determining that an inmate’s life sentence should not be reduced to 30 years. The court found that the applicant, Ferdinando Cesarano, could not legitimately have expected to receive any other penalty than “life imprisonment [...]

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Iran’s Supreme Court ordered a retrial of labor rights activist Sharifeh Mohammadi who had been sentenced to death for treason, according to local media that spoke to her lawyer on Saturday. The order lifts her death sentence while she awaits a retrial. In the Revolutionary Court conviction, Mohammadi’s alleged membership in the National Labor Unions [...]

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