Trump pledges U.S. military support to protect Qatar
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order pledging U.S. military support to defend Qatar if it comes under attack, following last mont...
El Salvador’s ruling New Ideas party passed a bill on Thursday that reforms the country’s election system, allowing President Nayib Bukele to run for unlimited terms, extending each term from five to six years, and removing the need for run-off elections.
This change comes after the Supreme Court, packed with Bukele supporters, ruled in 2021 that his re-election was a human right despite constitutional bans.
The bill, which passed 57-3 ahead of Congress’s recess, also shortens the current presidential term to align upcoming elections in 2027, synchronizing presidential, legislative, and municipal votes, a move likely to benefit Bukele’s party across the board.
Lawmaker Ana Figueroa, who proposed the bill, framed it as empowering voters to decide how long to support elected officials.
"This is quite simple, El Salvador: only you will have the power to decide how long you wish to support the work of any public official, including your president," she said.
However, opposition lawmakers warned the changes threaten democracy by enabling one-party dominance.
"Today, democracy has died in El Salvador," said legislator Marcela Villatoro of the opposition Republican National Alliance (ARENA).
Bukele remains popular due to his tough anti-gang policies that have sharply reduced homicide rates, though human rights groups have criticized his methods for targeting innocents.
Cristosal, a human rights organization, recently left the country, condemning the reforms as a step toward authoritarianism.
Noah Bullock, Cristosal’s executive director, said, “They changed the political system to allow the president to perpetuate himself in power indefinitely and we continue to follow the well-traveled path of autocrats.”
A day of mourning has been declared in Portugal to pay respect to victims who lost their lives in the Lisbon Funicular crash which happened on Wednesday evening.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
Authorities in California have identified the dismembered body discovered in a Tesla registered to singer D4vd as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who had been missing from Lake Elsinore since April 2024.
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order pledging U.S. military support to defend Qatar if it comes under attack, following last month’s Israeli airstrikes on Doha that intensified regional tensions.
Qarabağ claimed their second win in the UEFA Champions League group stage with a 2-0 victory over Copenhagen at the Tofig Bahramov Republican Stadium in Baku on Wednesday.
Contact has been lost with several vessels in the Global Sumud Flotilla, organisers said on Wednesday evening, as the ships continued their attempt to reach Gaza with humanitarian aid.
French naval personnel have boarded a Russia-linked oil tanker suspected of being used to launch drone flights that disrupted airports in Denmark last month.
The foreign minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Tahsin Ertugruloglu has strongly criticised the UN Security Council, accusing it of depriving the Turkish Cypriot people for six decades through failed negotiations on the Cyprus issue.
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