Samoa's FAST party holds power as Schmidt set to become prime minister
Official results gave FAST 30 seats, enough for a majority, while Fiame Naomi Mata'afa's breakaway party won only three.
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Thaksin Shinawatra leaves Thailand before court ruling raises fresh legal risk
The former Thai leader’s abrupt departure came days before a Supreme Court ruling that could reopen a path to prison and deepen the crisis around his political network.
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Saint Helena holds Legislative Council election under block voting system
Residents of Saint Helena went to the polls for a full Legislative Council election on 3 September 2025, choosing all 12 seats in the British overseas territory.
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Moroccan activist Ibtissame Lachgar gets prison term and fine over offensive T-shirt
A Rabat court sentenced the feminist campaigner to 30 months in prison and fined her 50,000 dirhams after she wore a shirt carrying a slogan deemed insulting to Islam.
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Jamaicans head to the polls in a parliamentary election shaped by the JLP and the PNP
The vote will decide 63 parliamentary seats under first-past-the-post rules, with the ruling Jamaica Labour Party facing the opposition People’s National Party.
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Thailand’s acting government moves to dissolve parliament after Paetongtarn ouster
Thailand’s Pheu Thai-led acting government moved to dissolve parliament and set up a new election after Paetongtarn Shinawatra was dismissed.
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Argentina orders house arrest for daughter of Nazi adviser over disputed wartime portrait
Prosecutors say Patricia Kadgien and her husband obstructed the investigation into a painting missing since 1945, though its location remains unknown.
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Turkish court annuls Istanbul CHP congress and removes provincial leadership
A Turkish court annulled the Republican People’s Party’s Istanbul provincial congress, removed local leadership, and installed an interim committee, according to AP.
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Police fire tear gas near two Bandung campuses as post-protest sweep expands
Students at two West Java campuses say police pushed their pursuit of suspected demonstrators onto university grounds, prompting alarm over the use of force around academic spaces.
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Burkina Faso passes law banning homosexuality with prison terms and fines
Burkina Faso’s junta has passed a law criminalizing homosexuality, putting the country among a growing number of African states tightening penalties on same-sex relations.
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Twenty people remain missing after Indonesian protests widen beyond lawmaker perks
A rights group said 20 people were still unaccounted for after unrest spread across Indonesia, where anger over legislative perks and police violence has fuelled the country’s worst protests in years.
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Finnish court hands Simon Ekpa six-year prison term over Biafra-linked terrorism case
A Finnish court has sentenced Nigerian separatist figure Simon Ekpa to six years in prison after finding him guilty of terrorism-related offences, tax fraud and a legal ethics breach.
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Guyana’s oil boom boosts Irfaan Ali as election approaches
Irfaan Ali enters election day with an economic story built on oil, but opponents say the gains have not reached enough ordinary Guyanese.
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Peru investigates killing of Indonesian diplomat in Lima as possible contract hit
Peruvian authorities said they were investigating the shooting death of an Indonesian diplomat in Lima as a possible contract killing during a period of rising violent crime.
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Yogyakarta student death prompts attention after protest at provincial police HQ
A university student in Yogyakarta died after taking part in a protest, with the limited source material confirming the death and the campus mourning but not the disputed circumstances around it.
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Indonesia moves to strip MPs of perks as protests and unrest spread
President Prabowo Subianto says party leaders will revoke parliamentary perks, suspend errant lawmakers and back tougher policing after days of deadly unrest.
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Jakarta unrest spreads as mobs ransack the homes of Sri Mulyani and lawmakers
Homes linked to Indonesia’s finance minister and senior lawmakers were looted as anger over parliamentary perks widened into a broader political crisis.
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Ukraine launches manhunt after Andriy Parubiy is shot dead in Lviv
2025-08-30 event: former Ukrainian parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy is killed in Lviv, prompting a manhunt and a criminal investigation into the shooting.
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One killed and five injured after car drives into crowd outside Évreux bar
French prosecutors say a dispute outside a bar in Évreux escalated into a fatal hit-and-run-style attack that injured five people.
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Crowd Raids Home Reported to Belong to Indonesian Lawmaker Uya Kuya
Videos circulating on 30 August showed a crowd entering and looting a Duren Sawit residence identified by Jawa Pos as the home of parliamentarian Uya Kuya.
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South Korea indicts former prime minister Han Duck-soo over martial law case
A special counsel said Han was indicted without arrest on suspicion of abetting insurrection after Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in December 2024.
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Austrian prosecutors indict former intelligence officer in Russia-linked spying scandal
Egisto Ott is accused of espionage, abuse of office and passing sensitive police data to Jan Marsalek and Russian intelligence, deepening Austria's biggest spying case in decades.
Read report »Three killed as protesters torch council building in Makassar
A fire set during anti-government protests in Indonesia's Makassar killed three people and injured four others, according to a local official cited by AFP.
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Thai Constitutional Court Removes Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra
Judges ruled that a leaked call with Cambodia’s former leader breached ethical standards, ending Paetongtarn’s premiership and forcing parliament to confront another leadership transition.
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