BAMAKO, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A court in Bamako on Monday referred the dispute over the dissolution of political parties -- a decision of the ruling junta which the opposition is seeking to overturn -- to Mali's Constitutional Court. The court's decision, confirmed by lawyers representing the banned political parties, followed the junta's announcement in May that political parties and organisations of a political nature across the country would be banned. The move was the latest in a series of restrictions on civil liberties introduced by the military rulers, who came to power in back-to-back coups in 2020 and 2021. Members of the parties filed appeals to several courts in Bamako, seeking to challenge the legality of the presidential...
BROOKLYN, United States, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The Trump administration's top justice official Pam Bondi hailed a "landmark victory" Monday as Sinaloa drug cartel...
COX'S BAZAR, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS) - On the concluding day of the three-day international stakeholders' dialogue on the Rohingya crisis, foreign diplomats, representatives from...
DAMASCUS, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Israeli drone strikes killed six Syrian soldiers outside Damascus, state television reported Wednesday, updating the toll for attacks the...
KYIV, Ukraine, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Russian strikes across Ukraine on Wednesday killed three people and left thousands more than 100,000 households without power,...
BELGRADE, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Serbia's largest oil producer was given another 30-day reprieve from sanctions by the United States, the sixth deferral for...
CHISINAU, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The leaders of France, Germany and Poland are due in Moldova on Wednesday in a show of support, a...
JERUSALEM, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Israeli police said Wednesday that security forces seized roughly 1.5 million shekels ($447,000) of "terror funds" during a raid...
NEW DELHI, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - India could be banned from world football for the second time in three years after FIFA and the...
TEHRAN, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Iranian forces have killed 13 militants in a raid in the restive southeast, state media reported Wednesday, adding they...
POREPUNKAH, Australia, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Police searched the Australian bush on Wednesday for a heavily armed 56-year-old gunman still on the run a...
BANGKOK, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A Thai woman who received one of the kingdom's longest ever royal insult sentences was freed from prison on...
SARAJEVO, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Bosnia's national museum has defended a decision to donate funds from the display of a precious Jewish manuscript to...