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Australian Government Suspends Parliament Amid Push to Oust Prime Minister

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08/23/2018

08/23/2018

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Australian Government Suspends Parliament Amid Push to Oust Prime Minister

Top News: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull pushed back against calls for his resignation, fighting an effort by senior members of parliament in his own party to oust him.

Turnbull faced a revolt from conservatives in his own party following low public opinion polls and by-election losses. On Thursday, the finance, employment, and education ministers resigned in a blow to his chances of staying in power.

Turnbull said he would resign from parliament if he was ousted in a parliamentary vote on Friday, which would open his conservative Liberal Party to a hotly contested by-election to retain its single-seat majority in government.

United Nations: In an interview with Foreign Policy, Pierre Krähenbühl, the U.N. agency chief for Palestinian refugees, argued that proposed U.S. plans to cut refugee funding could undermine stability in the Middle East.

AFRICA

•  Zimbabwe’s top constitutional court will rule on the opposition party’s challenge of recent presidential election results on Friday.

•  The South African government rebuked U.S. President Donald Trump after he tweeted about land seizure from white South African farmers, a racially charged issue.

•  A tanker carrying 17 Georgian sailors went missing off the coast of Gabon.

AMERICAS

•  Conservationists in Argentina criticized the former Buenos Aires zoo, where roughly 200 animals have died since closing in 2016 and attempting to convert to an “eco park.”

•  Thousands of businesses closed in Venezuela to try and deal with the government’s newly introduced currency.

•  U.S. President Donald Trump accused his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, of lying in alleging a cover-up using campaign funds to pay off adult-film stars who said they had an affair with Trump.

ASIA

•  The United States declined to attend Russian-led peace talks in Afghanistan, saying they would not lead to peace.

•  China and the United States are set to impose $16 billion worth of new tariffs on each other on Thursday as part of an escalating trade war.

•  North Korea is undertaking a countrywide construction campaign to commemorate the country’s 70th anniversary.

EUROPE

•  German authorities say they are unlikely to prosecute a 95-year old Nazi concentration camp guard deported from the United States this week.

•  Nearly 60 percent of convicted rapists in Sweden in the last five years were born abroad, according to data from the Swedish public broadcaster.

•  The leader of Romania’s ruling party claimed he escaped an alleged assassination attempt, sparking a national debate about the veracity of his claims.

MIDDLE EAST

•  The Islamic State published a new audio tape of leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to rally support for the terrorist group.

•  Israel moved forward with plans to build over 1,000 new homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

•  U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton said on a visit to Israel the Trump administration will use sanctions to push Iranian oil exports to zero.

- By Robbie Gramer

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