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Australian Prime Minister Forced Out

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08/24/2018

08/24/2018

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Australian Prime Minister Forced Out

Top News: After days of political chaos, Malcolm Turnbull was forced out as prime minister of Australia in an intra-party power struggle, to be replaced by Scott Morrison, the treasurer. Turnbull has been facing what the said was an “insurgency” by his fellow conservative parliamentarians.

Former home affairs minister Peter Dutton forced the leadership question earlier this week, leading lawmakers to the right of Turnbull within the ruling Liberal Party in objection to an energy proposal that included cutting emissions to address climate change.

But Dutton didn’t have the support he needed to take power, and Morrison emerged as a more viable alternative.

United States: After a misleading segment on South African land reform aired on Fox News earlier this week, U.S. President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter that he had asked his chief diplomat to look into “large scale killings” of white South African farmers. This drew a strong rebuke from the South African government, which rejects Trump’s characterization of potential land reforms, Foreign Policy’s Robbie Gramer reported.

AFRICA

•  The top court on Zimbabwe is set to rule Friday on a election-rigging charges levied by the opposition MDC Alliance against President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

•  Detained Ugandan politician Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine, whose arrest sparked protests, was charged Thursday with treason over suspicion that he was involved in stoning a presidential motorcade.

•  Heavy fighting broke out between the Cameroonian military and separatist rebels in the country’s northwest.

AMERICAS

•  Police searched the home of Argentina’s former president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, as part of an investigation into an alleged kickback scheme.

•  Venezuelans are rushing to the Peruvian border before a new rule kicks in requiring them to have passports to cross.

•  U.S. police uncovered a nearly 600-foot drug tunnel leading under the Mexican border from a former KFC restaurant in Arizona.

ASIA

•  More than 130 elected legislators across five Southeast Asian countries are demanding that the International Criminal Court investigate Myanmar’s violent campaign against the Rohingya ethnic group, which began a year ago.

•  The death toll from earthquakes on the Indonesian island of Lombok this summer has reached 555. Some 390,000 people remain displaced.

•  China is using surveillance cameras to monitor whether villagers are illicitly burning straw.

EUROPE

•  The European Commission called an emergency meeting after Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who heads the far-right Lega party, threatened to resign over a dispute with Italian President Sergio Mattarella about whether 177 migrants rescued at sea should be allowed to disembark from their ship docked in Sicily.

•  The public prosecutor’s office in Paris launched a probe into French Culture Minister Françoise Nyssen over allegations that she failed to obtain a construction permit.

•  Alex Salmond, Scotland's former first minister, is launching legal action against the Scottish government based on a claim that it mishandled sexual harassment allegations levied against him.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Turkey called for the Syrian government to seek a nonmilitary solution in rebel-held Idlib.

•  Air France and British Airways are set to end flights to Tehran, due to U.S. sanctions and other factors.

•  Israel alleged that a Palestinian gunman killed by the Israel Defense Forces earlier this week was a nurse working for Doctors Without Borders.

- By Benjamin Soloway

(Michael Masters/Getty Images)

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