Budapest mayor charged for organising banned Pride marchMr Karacsony was charged with organising the unlawful assembly despite a prohibition order, the Budapest Chief Prosecutor’s Office said. It recommended that be fined without a trial. Prosecutors said that the mayor had made “repeatedly published public calls to participate in the assembly and then led the assembly.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/budapest-mayor-charged-organising-banned-pride-marchAnti-Fascism Has Been Banned in HungaryAt the 14th of February, there is going to be an international nazi meeting in Budapest. Nazi rock festival, nazi grand meeting, nazi tour, with several thousands of attendees. The antifascist counter demonstration is banned. Several hundred policeman are going to protect the nazi events and in the meantime, hunt for antifascists. We ask all antifascists, to protest the Hungarian fascist regime at the 14th of February! Show international solidarity before embassys, consulates or any other sorts of Hungarian state-sponsored facilities!
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/27564/Dutch parties strike minority coalition deal three months after D66 election upsetThe liberal-progressive, pro-European party, led by the probable new prime minister, Rob Jetten, will join up with the conservative Christian Democrats and the right-wing VVD in a government that holds only 66 seats in the 150-seat lower house. The new coalition shuts out the far-right Freedom party (PVV), led by the anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders, which D66 narrowly defeated in the tight October election. Both parties won 26 seats, although seven PVV MPs have since broken away.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/28/dutch-minority-coalition-after-d66-election-upsetWater privatisers ‘treating system as an ATM,’ campaigners say as bills set to hikeWATER privatisers are treating the system as an ATM, campaigners said today as South East Water (SEW) confirmed bills will rise to an average of £324 a year from April. The increase comes as the company faces an Ofwat investigation after thousands of homes and businesses were left without water in recent weeks.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/water-privatisers-treating-system-atm-campaigners-say-bills-set-hikeIsrael steps up evictions of Palestinians from East JerusalemIn Silwan in East Jerusalem, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Kayed Rajabi and his neighbors have been handed eviction orders in favor of an Israeli settler organization which has already taken over parts of the Palestinian district. Rajabi's home is surrounded by buildings that have raised large Israeli flags - a sign they are owned by settlers, who he said began buying homes in 2004, and have obtained about 40 buildings in Silwan now, many via forced evictions.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-steps-up-evictions-palestinians-east-jerusalem-2026-01-28/Clashes between government troops and Tigrayan forces erupt in EthiopiaHostilities broke out in recent days in Tsemlet, western Tigray, an area claimed by forces from the neighbouring Amhara region, the sources told AFP. “The situation appears to be deteriorating,” the security source said on condition of anonymity. The Tigray war, which started in 2020, killed thousands of people and displaced millions more before the conflict ended in 2022.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/29/clashes-between-government-troops-and-tigrayan-forces-erupt-in-ethiopiahttps://archive.ph/n2pTMHundreds of armed Iraqi Kurds cross into Syria's Hassakeh provinceHundreds of armed Iraqi Kurds have crossed from Iraq into northeastern Syria over the past two days, heading towards Hassakeh province, political and security sources in Iraq's Kurdistan Region told The New Arab. The sources said the fighters had travelled from Sulaymaniyah province, with some linked to counterterrorism units affiliated with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), led by Bafel Talabani.
https://www.newarab.com/news/hundreds-armed-iraqi-kurds-cross-northeast-syriaCanada separatists accused of ‘treason’ after secret talks with US state departmentThe revelations that far-right activists met US state department officials first emerged in a Financial Times report outlining the efforts a group of increasingly emboldened separatists are taking in their attempt to secede from Canada. A minority of residents of the oil-rich province have long argued that the province’s woes are due to the structure of payments to the federal government and a perceived inability to get their vast fossil fuel reserves to market.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/29/david-eby-alberta-separatism-treasonCosta Ricans support Chaves’ successor in the presidential election as crime remains highChaves has simultaneously been able to shirk any blame for the violence — he points to a permissive judiciary and weak predecessors — and attract support with tough-on-crime talk. Earlier this month, Chaves invited El Salvador Nayib Bukele to the groundbreaking for a new prison, inspired by Bukele’s crackdown on gangs in his country.
https://apnews.com/article/costa-rica-chaves-laura-fernandez-67bd4ad1b4b9a85d901afa63296b50beTrump threatens tariffs on any nation supplying Cuba with oilU.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened new tariffs on countries supplying oil to Cuba, escalating a pressure campaign against the Communist-run island. The move, authorized by an executive order under a national emergency declaration, did not specify any tariff rates or single out any countries whose products could face U.S. tariffs.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-impose-tariffs-goods-nations-nations-giving-oil-cuba-white-house-says-2026-01-29/Venezuela: Creditors Hunger for 170B Debt Renegotiation International creditors have shown growing optimism to collect on defaulted Venezuelan debt in the wake of the January 3 US military strikes and kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro. According to Bloomberg, the volume of Venezuelan bonds traded increased tenfold since the start of the year. Securities have rallied to around 40 cents on the dollar, having hit lows of 1.5 cents on the dollar in the past.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-creditors-hunger-for-170b-debt-renegotiation/