More than 24.7 million Algerians vote on 2 July to elect 407 parliamentary seats, the most contested race since the 2019 Hirak protests ousted Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
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Vucic to resign within weeks after 18 months of Serbian protests
Serbia’s Vucic says he will resign within weeks and call early elections, bowing to 18 months of student-led protests over the Novi Sad station disaster.
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Bolivia’s Paz invokes state of emergency as road blockades cut La Paz off from oxygen
President Rodrigo Paz declared a 90-day state of emergency on June 20, deploying the military to remove roadblocks that had killed at least 17 people and left La Paz hospitals without oxygen.
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Albanians protest Kushner-backed resort threatening Adriatic wetland
Albanian prosecutors froze accounts tied to Jared Kushner’s $4.7 billion Vlora resort as thousands rallied in Tirana for a sixth straight night over a protected wetland.
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Bolivia’s capital under siege as Paz faces worst political crisis in 40 years
Bolivia’s President Rodrigo Paz faces road blockades paralyzing La Paz, draining over $50 million from the economy daily and blocking emergency vehicles from hospitals, six months after his historic election.