Category: World
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Rodrigo Paz dismissed economy minister José Gabriel Espinoza on Friday, days after calling the congressional vote against him unconstitutional. What a censure vote does under Bolivia’s constitution, why a car purchase became the trigger, and what the reversal signals.
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Depot explosions in populated areas happen with grim regularity, from Libya to Chad to Russia. Why munitions sit inside cities, what a “sympathetic detonation” is, why the danger continues after the fire is out, and what the standards actually require.
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An ammunition depot exploded on Friday evening south of Misrata, throwing rockets and shells into homes and farmland. Sixteen people were injured. Residents protested the next day — not about the blast, but about where the depot was.
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South Australia has too many koalas, and researchers warn the forests cannot feed them. How a threatened species becomes overabundant, why leaving it alone means starvation, and what each of the four available options actually costs.
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Around 1,200 people face deportation from the US to countries that are not their own, starting with a group of twenty. What third-country removal is, why governments use it, the legal limit that applies, and why the first flight is the least informative part.
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A “new phase”, a “position of power”, and a promise of “more failures” — three phrases from three leaders in one day. What each construction is actually doing, why the speaker matters more than the words, and the four indicators that cost something.
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A soldier missing in Lebanon since 1982 was buried in Jerusalem on Friday, 44 years on. Why burial is treated as a debt owed to the dead, what the Mount of Olives signifies, and why the same obligation makes remains a bargaining chip.
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Eight people died when a charter aircraft crashed at a remote radar site in western Alaska. Why radar installations sit where nobody lives, why Alaskan aviation is statistically more dangerous, and what “charter” means for the rules that applied.
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DR Congo has reported 5,290 Bundibugyo Ebola cases and 2,516 deaths. Contact-tracing coverage has slipped to 82.9 per cent — the figure that predicts the next fortnight — while enrolment begins in the first treatment trial for this species.
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Four European states have urged Israel to halt settlement expansion; Turkey, Egypt and Qatar condemned strikes in Gaza. Why the statement came from four countries and not the EU, what the legal claim rests on, and how to tell which diplomatic moves matter.