YAC News Desk

Serbia's Vučić to resign within weeks and call snap elections

Aleksandar Vučić says he will resign within weeks and call early elections, after 18 months of student-led protests triggered by the Novi Sad disaster that killed 16.

Hungary's Magyar moves to end President Sulyok's mandate by constitutional amendment

Peter Magyar told parliament on 22 June his government will end President Tamas Sulyok's mandate via a constitutional amendment and rewrite the constitution from September.

Starmer resigns, wants orderly transfer of power, Burnham overwhelming favourite

Keir Starmer will resign as Labour leader and prime minister, staying on as caretaker until a successor is chosen. Andy Burnham is the overwhelming favourite.

Russian attacks set fire to the 1,000 year old Dormition Cathedral at Kyiv's UNESCO-listed Pechersk Lavra, kills civilians overnight

Fire tore through the roof of the Dormition Cathedral at the 1,000-year-old UNESCO monastery, which Ukraine says holds Enhanced Protection under the 1954 Hague Convention.

Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4 Billion Resort Triggers 'Flamingo Revolution', Asset Freeze and an EU Warning

Anti-corruption prosecutors have frozen developer accounts as people nationwide demand the cancellation of a Trump family-linked megaproject carved from protected wetlands.

Pashinyan's Civil Contract wins election, Armenia tilts to EU over Moscow

Pashinyan's Civil Contract won Armenia's 7 June election with 49.81 per cent, deepening the EU turn and signalling Moscow's fading influence on Yerevan.

Russia attacks Ukraine in latest war crime spree, killing at least 12 civilians.

73 missiles and 656 drones hit Kyiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv overnight. A residential building collapsed in the capital after a Russian double-tap. The tactics mirror Israel in Gaza.

Sudan Is Now the World's Hungriest Country

Sudan now has more active famine zones than any country on Earth. Nearly 19.5 million people face acute food insecurity as conflict blocks aid and destroys livelihoods across Kordofan and Darfur.

Russia fires hypersonic missile at Ukraine in one of the war's largest attacks

Sunday's barrage killed at least four people and wounded more than 80. It also destroyed a national museum that had reopened three weeks ago. It is the second mass assault on the capital in under two weeks.

The EU and Mexico new trade deal is a challenge to US and Chinese dominance in America.

The Modernised Global Agreement, signed in Mexico City on 22 May at the first EU-Mexico summit in 11 years, expands bilateral commerce projected at $94.5 billion. It is also a coordinated geopolitical statement about what the rules-based international order looks like without US participation.

Israel seizes 430 human rights defenders in international waters as Gaza flotilla makes third attempt

The Global Sumud Flotilla set out from Turkey on 14 May with 54 boats and nearly 500 people from 45 countries. 430 are now in Ketziot prison.

From Madrid to Seoul, the World Has Turned on Israel. What's Changed, and What Hasn't.

Italy, Spain, Canada, Germany, France and South Korea have all publicly turned on Israel in the past two months. The arms keep flowing, the settlements keep expanding, and 72,549 Palestinians are dead.

Hungary Votes Out Orbán: A Landslide for Democracy, a Disaster for Putin, Trump, Netanyahu, and the Global Far Right

Artemis II Crew Splashes Down in Pacific After Historic Lunar Mission

Jeremy Hansen becomes the first Canadian to travel to the moon. The mission carried humanity back to lunar distance for the first time in more than fifty years.

Israeli Police Disperse Court-Approved Tel Aviv Protest, Arrest 17

Israeli police forcibly dispersed an antiwar demonstration in Tel Aviv this week, arresting 17 people. The protest had been explicitly authorised by Israel's High Court of Justice. Police dispersed it anyway, violating the Israeli constitution and international law.