Bosnia will on Wednesday dismantle tents at a makeshift migrant camp known as the “jungle” for its brutal conditions, after transferring hundreds of people to Sarajevo. Rights groups heavily criticised the Vucjak camp, where migrants slept in tents with no heating, running water or proper toilets, ever since local authorities opened in June in an […]

Israel’s parliament began rushing through a bill on Wednesday to call a third general election within a year as talks between embattled premier Benjamin Netanyahu and his centrist rival broke down ahead of a midnight deadline. A deal to avert a new election must be reached before 11:59 pm (2159 GMT), following a deadlocked vote […]

The UN-created International Support Group (ISG) for Lebanon meets in Paris Wednesday, stressing the need for a stable government that listens to public opinion expressed in an ongoing popular uprising, organisers said. France and the UN were to co-host the meeting, which the French foreign ministry said “should allow the international community to call for […]

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg on Wednesday accused wealthier nations of inventing ways to avoid slashing their greenhouse gas emissions, branding their climate action “misleading” at a summit in Madrid. The UN climate forum tasked with saving the world from runaway global warming has become an “opportunity for countries to negociate loopholes and to avoid raising […]

Thailand’s election authority on Wednesday launched a bid to knock-out the country’s main anti-army opposition over alleged illegal loans by the party’s leader, a billionaire who has harangued the military-backed government since seizing the political limelight. The Future Forward Party (FFP) rode a youth-propelled wave to become Thailand’s third largest grouping in March elections, scooping […]