Photo by Kent Nishimura, Getty Images. Before midday, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot in the back while speaking at a public address in Nara City, Nara Prefecture. Abe was campaigning for his former political party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), for the upcoming Upper House election on July 10th. The perpetrator, 41-year-old Tetsuya […]
Burning police car during demonstrations in Almaty, Kazakhstan January 5, 2022. Demonstrations were sparked by outrage towards the government’s decision to revoke price caps on liquified petroleum gas. REUTERS/Pavel Mikheyev Kazakhstan begins the new year with demonstrations against gas price hikes in the city of Zhanaozen, in the Mangystau Region. However, demonstrations have rapidly spread […]
On Tuesday, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike announced that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government would establish a system that would recognise same-sex partnerships by the end of the following fiscal year, in March 2023. Tokyo would become the largest city to recognise same-sex partnerships, a decision that puts growing pressure on the Japanese Governemnt to recognise same-sex […]
A decision made on Wednesday by the General Court of the European Union (EU) declared that the Moroccan Agriculture and Fishery trade deal be annulled, as it has not received consent from Sahrawi in Western Sahara. The EU Court upheld the applicant’s claim that “the requirement relating to the consent of the people of Western […]