Thousands of protesters rallied in the Moldovan capital Sunday to demand the government’s resignation and snap parliamentary elections. Moldova last month elected pro-European Maia Sandu to the presidency, earning her a surprise victory over pro-Russian incumbent Igor Dodon. But Moldovan lawmakers this week passed a bill transferring control of the country’s intelligence agency from the […]

Nearly 13,000 residents were evacuated in Frankfurt on Sunday as experts defused an unexploded World War II bomb, local emergency services said. The 500-kilogramme (1,100-pound) British bomb had been found on a construction site in Germany’s financial capital on Thursday, the emergency services said. It was successfully defused in less than two hours, the fire […]

Cameroon on Sunday held its first indirect regional elections that the long-serving president called partly to defuse the separatist insurgency in the English-speaking west but which the opposition is boycotting as a sham. In Sunday’s election, a 24,000-strong electoral college made up of municipal councillors and traditional chiefs will vote to fill the posts of […]

Former Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez died Sunday at the age of 80 from lung cancer, his family announced. “With deep pain we communicate the death of our beloved father,” his sons Alvaro, Javier and Ignacio Vazquez said in a statement. The statement added that Vazquez died at 3 am local time “due to natural causes […]

The Tunisian minister of Health, Faouzi Mehdi, on Saturday dismissed several health sector officials two days after the death of young doctor, Badreddine Aloui, who fell into a broken elevator shaft of the regional hospital in Jendouba, northern Tunisia. The sacked officials are the director-general of Public Health Structures, director of the Center for Technical […]