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sightmagazine.com.au | Alexandra Valencia |David Adams
Quito, Ecuador Reuters Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa – a millennial business heir who won a new term on Sunday by an unexpectedly wide margin – may struggle to push bills through the country’s divided legislature, where his election rival’s coalition is close to a majority. His mother – doctor and lawmaker Annabella Azin – might be a big part of the solution, if he’s willing to take on some political risk.
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sightmagazine.com.au | Huseyin Hayatsever |Mert Ozkan |David Adams
Antalya, Turkey ReutersThe head of the Council of Europe, the continent’s leading human rights watchdog, told Reuters it was worried about any violations of rights in Turkey after the jailing of President Tayyip Erdogan’s chief political rival and hundreds of arrests that followed mass protests.
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sightmagazine.com.au | Manuela Andreoni |Ricardo Brito |Lais S. Morais |Laís Morais |David Adams
Brasilia, Brazil ReutersThousands of Indigenous people from across Brazil are rallying in the nation’s capital this week to demand protection for their land rights, fighting legislation that could make it impossible for some tribes to reclaim territory they were forced to leave. Disputes over the 2023 law, backed by the powerful farm lobby, have fomented the protests by Indigenous groups that say it violates their rights to ancestral lands recognised in Brazil’s 1988 constitution.
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sightmagazine.com.au | George Obulutsa |David Adams
Nairobi, KenyaReutersTanzanian opposition party leader Tundu Lissu was on Thursday charged with treason, a capital offence, for comments he made last week that prosecutors said called on the public to launch a rebellion and disrupt an election due this year. The charges against Lissu, the chairman of the main opposition party CHADEMA and runner-up in the 2020 presidential election, will bring fresh scrutiny to President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s human rights record as she bids for re-election.
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sightmagazine.com.au | Jeff Mason |Philip Blenkinsop |Joe Cash |David Adams
Washington DC, US/Brussels, Belgium/Beijing, China ReutersPresident Donald Trump’s trade war rattled global markets anew on Thursday as stocks and oil prices sank amid fears China may once again respond in kind with higher tariffs to match the latest levies imposed by the United States. Battered global markets and anxious global leaders welcomed Wednesday’s reprieve when Trump suddenly decided to freeze most of his hefty new duties for 90 days.
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sightmagazine.com.au | John Irish |Elizabeth Pineau |David Adams
Paris, FranceReutersFrance’s foreign minister warned on Wednesday that if world powers were unable to quickly reach a new agreement with Iran over its contested nuclear program then a military confrontation seemed “almost inevitable”. Speaking after President Emmanuel Macron convened a rare and undisclosed meeting of key ministers and experts on Wednesday to discuss the Iran dossier, Jean-Noel Barrot appeared to ramp up the pressure on Tehran.
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sightmagazine.com.au | Elizabeth Pineau |Stephanie Lecocq |David Adams
Paris/Henin-Beaumont, FranceReutersA Paris court said on Tuesday three appeals have been filed so far in the case against the far-right National Rally party that saw leader Marine Le Pen banned from running for office for five years, but did not provide details on who had filed them. The appeals court said in a statement it would issue a ruling on the appeals in the summer of 2026, ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
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sightmagazine.com.au | Kirsten Grieshaber |David Adams
Berlin, GermanyAP A Jesuit priest says he prefers going to prison than paying a €500 fine for participating in a climate activists’ street blockade in the southern German city of Nuremberg. Rev Jörg Alt started serving his nearly monthlong prison sentence on Tuesday in Nuremberg. “Today, I am starting my 25-day alternative custodial sentence in Nuremberg prison,” he said before entering the prison. “I don’t like doing this, especially as my health is no longer the best at the age of 63.
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sightmagazine.com.au | Poppy McPherson |Shoon Naing |David Adams
ReutersOn Thursday night, Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing stood astride a jeep, touring columns of saluting soldiers as fighter jets shot flares and helicopters buzzed overhead in an annual display of military might in the capital, Naypyitaw. The general was riding high, set to join a regional leaders’ summit in Thailand this week, a rare overseas trip four years after seizing power in a coup that ushered in a ruinous civil war and made him an international pariah.
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sightmagazine.com.au | Poppy McPherson |Panu Wongcha-um |Shoon Naing |David Adams
ReutersAn armed resistance movement against Myanmar’s military-run government criticised the junta on Sunday for conducting airstrikes on villages even as the country reels from an earthquake that has killed around 1,700 people. The Karen National Union, one of Myanmar’s oldest ethnic armies, said in a statement the junta “continues to carry out airstrikes targeting civilian areas, even as the population suffers tremendously from the earthquake”.
