President Donald Trump ratcheted up an increasingly hostile feud with the media, announcing he will skip a century-old annual correspondents’ dinner a day after a fierce row erupted over press access to the White House. The Trump White House triggered widespread outrage on Friday by denying access to an off-camera briefing to several major US … Read more
Poland’s ruling party said on Monday it would scrap plans to limit media access to parliament and invited opposition leaders to discuss a standoff in parliament, moves that could diffuse the biggest political crisis in years. Moves by the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party to curb the number of journalists in parliament, and their … Read more
A bitter political crisis in Poland worsened over the weekend with heated protests both in and outside the nation’s parliament and a swirl of allegations of attempted coups and threats to democracy. In Poland’s lower house of parliament, opposition lawmakers formed a phalanx around the podium, effectively halting proceedings in the chamber in protest over … Read more
Demonstrators in the Polish capital Warsaw have renewed their protest against government plans to restrict journalists’ access to parliament. Crowds gathered outside the presidential palace on Saturday morning and then marched to parliament. On Friday protesters blockaded the parliament building, leading to a late-night stand-off with police. Poland’s populist right-wing government wants to limit the … Read more
Long-term election observers deployed by the European Union (EU) ahead of Ghana’s December 7 general election on Sunday left for the country’s ten regions. The 24 observers of the EU Election Observer Mission (EOM) were deployed in pairs to each region while the Greater Accra (Capital Region) and Ashanti Region will each have two teams. … Read more