Donald Trump has signed an executive order that unofficially renames the Department of Defense, reviving the War Department label and the martial language around it.
The former Thai leader’s abrupt departure came days before a Supreme Court ruling that could reopen a path to prison and deepen the crisis around his political network.
Residents of Saint Helena went to the polls for a full Legislative Council election on 3 September 2025, choosing all 12 seats in the British overseas territory.
A Rabat court sentenced the feminist campaigner to 30 months in prison and fined her 50,000 dirhams after she wore a shirt carrying a slogan deemed insulting to Islam.
The vote will decide 63 parliamentary seats under first-past-the-post rules, with the ruling Jamaica Labour Party facing the opposition People’s National Party.
A Turkish court annulled the Republican People’s Party’s Istanbul provincial congress, removed local leadership, and installed an interim committee, according to AP.
Students at two West Java campuses say police pushed their pursuit of suspected demonstrators onto university grounds, prompting alarm over the use of force around academic spaces.
Burkina Faso’s junta has passed a law criminalizing homosexuality, putting the country among a growing number of African states tightening penalties on same-sex relations.
A rights group said 20 people were still unaccounted for after unrest spread across Indonesia, where anger over legislative perks and police violence has fuelled the country’s worst protests in years.
A Finnish court has sentenced Nigerian separatist figure Simon Ekpa to six years in prison after finding him guilty of terrorism-related offences, tax fraud and a legal ethics breach.
Peruvian authorities said they were investigating the shooting death of an Indonesian diplomat in Lima as a possible contract killing during a period of rising violent crime.
A university student in Yogyakarta died after taking part in a protest, with the limited source material confirming the death and the campus mourning but not the disputed circumstances around it.
President Prabowo Subianto says party leaders will revoke parliamentary perks, suspend errant lawmakers and back tougher policing after days of deadly unrest.
Homes linked to Indonesia’s finance minister and senior lawmakers were looted as anger over parliamentary perks widened into a broader political crisis.
2025-08-30 event: former Ukrainian parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy is killed in Lviv, prompting a manhunt and a criminal investigation into the shooting.
Videos circulating on 30 August showed a crowd entering and looting a Duren Sawit residence identified by Jawa Pos as the home of parliamentarian Uya Kuya.
A special counsel said Han was indicted without arrest on suspicion of abetting insurrection after Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in December 2024.
Egisto Ott is accused of espionage, abuse of office and passing sensitive police data to Jan Marsalek and Russian intelligence, deepening Austria's biggest spying case in decades.
A fire set during anti-government protests in Indonesia's Makassar killed three people and injured four others, according to a local official cited by AFP.