Carter Center unable to verify Venezuela election results, blasts officials for lack of transparency
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Carter Center unable to verify Venezuela election results, blasts officials for lack of transparency

The Carter Center said it was unable to verify the results of Venezuela’s presidential election, blaming authorities for a “complete lack of transparency” in declaring Nicolas Maduro the winner without providing any individual polling tallies. The statement Tuesday night by the Atlanta-based group is perhaps the harshest rebuke yet of Venezuela’s chaotic election process…

Why protest by ethnic Baloch has put Pakistan’s key port of Gwadar on edge | Protests News

Why protest by ethnic Baloch has put Pakistan’s key port of Gwadar on edge | Protests News

Islamabad, Pakistan — Tensions are high in Pakistan’s port city of Gwadar in the southwestern Balochistan province where an ethnic Baloch group has been protesting for days, following the arrests of some of their members and deadly clashes with security forces. Gwadar is Pakistan’s only deep-sea port on the Arabian…

What’s happening in Venezuela? Election turmoil, protests and fraud claims | Elections News

What’s happening in Venezuela? Election turmoil, protests and fraud claims | Elections News

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Venezuela to protest against what they say is President Nicolas Maduro’s fraudulent election win. Maduro, who secured a third six-year term as president, denounced an attempt “to impose a coup d’etat” in the country. “We have witnessed a series of events,…

Police fire tear gas as crowds protest against Venezuela’s election count | Protests News

Police fire tear gas as crowds protest against Venezuela’s election count | Protests News

Venezuelan security forces have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters angered by the announcement that Nicolas Maduro won Sunday’s presidential election. Thousands of people flooded the streets of the capital, Caracas, on Monday, chanting “Freedom, freedom!” and “This government is going to fall!” The opposition has questioned the…

Bangladesh restores mobile internet after 11-day blackout to quell protests | Protests News

Bangladesh restores mobile internet after 11-day blackout to quell protests | Protests News

Meanwhile, the home minister says at least 147 people were killed during the violence over government job quotas. Bangladesh has restored mobile internet, 11 days after a nationwide blackout was imposed to contain deadly protests over quotas in government jobs. The South Asian nation’s 4G mobile internet services resumed on…

Bangladesh authorities detain student protest leaders in hospital | Protests News

Bangladesh authorities detain student protest leaders in hospital | Protests News

Home minister says three student leaders taken into custody ‘for their own security’ and were being questioned. Bangladeshi authorities have taken three student leaders, who helped coordinate rallies against government job quotas, from a hospital following days of deadly nationwide protests and state-imposed curfews and communication blocks. Officers reportedly forced…

Bangladesh minister on government’s response to deadly anti-quota protests | Protests

Bangladesh minister on government’s response to deadly anti-quota protests | Protests

Bangladesh Information Minister Mohammad Arafat talks to Al Jazeera about deadly anti-quota protests and unrest. Bangladesh has recently seen some of its worst violence in decades – violence sparked by student protests against a government-job quota system that demonstrators say favoured supporters of the ruling Awami League party. The Country’s…

Bangladesh minister defends gov’t response to protests amid calls for probe | Protests News

Bangladesh minister defends gov’t response to protests amid calls for probe | Protests News

Bangladesh’s minister of state for information and broadcasting has defended the government’s handling of mass protests, as United Nations experts called for an independent investigation into the government’s deadly crackdown on demonstrators. In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera on Thursday, Mohammad Arafat said the country’s security forces had done…

Climate activists block runways at Germany’s Frankfurt airport | Protests News

Climate activists block runways at Germany’s Frankfurt airport | Protests News

The climate action group, The Last Generation, is calling on the government to divest from oil, gas and coal by 2030. Germany’s largest airport in Frankfurt was forced to suspend arrivals and departures after a protest by climate activists who blocked runways by glueing themselves to the tarmac. Frankfurt airport,…

Key takeaways from Netanyahu’s speech and the protests outside US Congress | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Key takeaways from Netanyahu’s speech and the protests outside US Congress | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has delivered his fourth address to a joint session of the United States Congress, as he attempted to drum up continued support for his country’s war in Gaza. But protests over the war greeted Netanyahu as he arrived on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on…