Romanian magistrates stage unprecedented protest against judicial changes
Magistrates protested outside courthouses across Romania on Friday and many prosecutors will stop work next week, in an unprecedented protest against changes in judicial legislation that have raised alarm bells over the rule of law.
One dead in Venezuela’s Brazil border area after troops open fire
At least one civilian was killed and several were injured in the southern Venezuelan town of Kumarakapay near the border with Brazil after troops opened fire there, indigenous community leaders and victims’ relatives told Reuters.
Indigenous Venezuelans wounded after clash with security forces: relatives
Several indigenous Venezuelans suffered gunshot wounds early on Friday after confronting government security forces in an area close to the Brazilian border, doctors and relatives told a Reuters witness at the medical center where they were being treat…
Bootleg liquor kills at least 41 on Indian tea plantation as dozens fall ill
At least 41 Indian tea plantation workers have died from drinking toxic bootleg liquor after receiving their weekly wages, and 20 are critically ill in hospital, a government minister said on Friday.
Thousands of Algerians protest against Bouteflika’s re-election bid
Thousands of people in cities across Algeria marched on Friday to protest against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s plan to seek a fifth term and police used tear gas to disperse crowds in the capital.
China, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela in hot seat at U.N. rights forum
China is lobbying hard to thwart scrutiny of its mass detention camps for Muslim Uighurs in the Xinjiang region at the U.N. Human Rights Council’s main annual session opening on Monday, diplomats and activists said.
Forced to beg, Senegal’s ‘talibes’ face exploitation and abuse
An eight-year-old boy fled his Koranic school in Saint-Louis, Senegal this month after he said a teacher threatened to beat him for not earning enough money begging on the street.
‘Disgusting’ that Venezuela’s Maduro would close borders to aid, says UK
It is “disgusting and wholly unacceptable” of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro to close borders to humanitarian aid, Britain’s foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Friday.
Brazil prosecutors say they are seeking arrest of senior Vale executive
Brazilian prosecutors are seeking the arrest of a Vale SA senior executive, authorities said on Friday, following the collapse of a dam holding mining byproducts that is believed to have killed over 300 people.
Brazil’s Senate President says pension reform could be voted in June
Brazil’s Senate President Davi Alcolumbre said on Friday that a pension reform proposal drafted by the new far-right government of Jair Bolsonaro could be voted by Congress in June, although he warned there may not be enough votes for it to pass.
