Dublin / AFP Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny held talks on Thursday with opposition leader Micheal Martin to end the impasse over a new government following inconclusive elections in February. After an initial meeting on Wednesday, Kenny’s Fine Gael party said in a statement it had offered a “full and equal partnership” in a future administration to Martin’s Fianna Fail—its ...

Skopje / AFP Macedonia’s main opposition party said it will boycott a “sham” election in June, as parliament dissolved ahead of the vote which is supposed to end a political crisis. The June 5 election is part of a European Union-backed deal reached last year between the government and the opposition to end months of turmoil. But Zoran Zaev, leader ...

In December 2014, the Umbrella Movement, Hong Kong protests that had started on September 22, ended. Major roads, which had for three months been occupied by protesters, now were bustling again with traffic. Students returned to university empty-handed and suffrage-less. The protests, once lively with energy from the potential of tangible change, were extinguished without so much as an official ...