Report claims ex-Mossad chief tried to pressure Fatou Bensouda into abandoning a 2021 war crimes probe. The former chief of Mossad threatened the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor to try to get a 2021 war crimes probe dropped, a report has claimed. Yossi Cohen, ex-chief of Israel’s Mossad foreign intelligence agency, threatened the ICC’s former prosecutor Fatou Bensouda in a series of secret meetings, an investigation by...

South Africa will go to the polls on May 29 for the most unpredictable election in the country’s 30 years of democratic rule. The governing African National Congress (ANC) is projected to lose its parliament majority for the first time, possibly paving the way for the country’s first coalition government. With voter discontent high, leading opposition parties, including the Democratic Alliance (DA), the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), and...

Thousands protested outside Taiwan’s parliament after reforms seen as reducing the president’s power were passed. Taiwan’s opposition-controlled legislature has ignored large protests to push through legislative changes seen as favourable to China. The controversial bill, adopted on Tuesday, diminishes the power of President William Lai Ching-te, who was sworn in last week, and his pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government. The reforms, pushed through by the opposition nationalist...