About 45.8 million people around the world are trapped in modern-day slavery, almost a third more than estimated two years ago, a charity said on Tuesday.

For the past month in Kenya, Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) led by Raila Odinga and his co principles Senator Moses Wetangula and former Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka has been organizing weekly countrywide protests aimed at pushing out the officials of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).

On the 29th May, Turkey marked the 1453 Ottoman conquest of Istanbul on its 563rd anniversary with a grandiose ceremony including the participation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım, alongside an estimated million spectators, in the city’s coastal Yenikapı Square.

G7 leaders in final declaration of summit, held in Japan, claimed that they are ready to prolong sanctions against Russia and stressed that prolongation of sanctions depends on how Russia will implement Minsk Agreement.