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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has announced a new presidential decree that would free thousands of federal prisoners in special circumstances, including torture victims. The decree, to be signed next week, would free federal prisoners of any age who were accused of any crime if they had been victims…

Prime Minister of Malaysia, Muhyiddin Yassin has been facing pressure to resign office after the country’s king criticized his government’s handling of emergency ordinances. Earlier this week, Muhyiddin’s government nullified all ordinances that had come into effect since a national state of emergency was imposed in January by King Al-Sultan…

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has called on the Russian army to be stationed along the length of his country’s border with Azerbaijan following the rising tensions between the two neighbours. This comes after Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other earlier on Thursday of flouting a Russian-backed ceasefire that both…

Haiti’s new Prime Minister Ariel Henry on Wednesday said the government plans to create conditions for the Caribbean nation to hold elections as swiftly as possible. “The mission of this government is to prepare the conditions to hold the elections as quickly as possible,” Henry told reporters at his first…

Peru’s new president, Pedro Castillo on Wednesday pledged that his government will tackle what he said were persistent decades-long social divisions in the country and also make no radical changes to the economy. “The defeat of the Inca Empire gave rise to the colonial era, it was then… that the castes and…

Tunisia’s largest political party has called for dialogue with President Kais Saied to resolve the political crisis after initially inciting protests. It would be recalled that the party on Monday urged MPs and its supporters to protest outside parliament in the capital, Tunis. This was a day after the president…

Haitian police have arrested the head of Jovenel Moise’s security team, Jean Laguel Civil as part of the ongoing investigation into the president’s murder on July 7. Civil was taken in by the police on Monday, joining more than two dozen suspects already in custody over the murder case. He…

Vice President Kamala Harris could travel to Vietnam and Singapore in August, reports have revealed. The sources told Reuters Agency on Monday that the coronavirus pandemic could be part of her agenda. Earlier this year, Harris visited border patrol facility near the US-Mexico border. Mexico and Guatemala with the aim…

Hong Kong has declared a 24-year old guilty of two count charges of inciting secession and terrorism in first court ruling pronounced under its new national security law. Tong Ying-Kit, the first person to be tried under the sweeping law that was only passed last year, was accused of driving…

President Joe Biden on Monday sealed a deal with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi to formally end the U.S. combat mission in Iraq by the end of 2021, more than 18 years after U.S. troops were sent to the country. At their meeting, Biden said that US counter-terrorism cooperation will…