Slovenia’s opposition filed on Friday a constitutional impeachment motion against PM Janez Jansa, arguing he has failed to order enough vaccines for the nation and is hurting the freedoms of media and the judiciary, news wires reported. MPs will debate and vote on the impeachment motion as soon as next month. If approved, the motion will be passed on to the nation’s top court, which will decide whether to oust Jansa.

US senators voted on Tuesday to move forward with Donald Trump's impeachment trial on a charge of inciting the deadly assault on the Capitol, rejecting a claim the proceeding was unconstitutional after viewing graphic video of the January attack, Reuters reported.

Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial is opening today with a sense of urgency both by Democrats who want to hold the former president accountable for the violent Capitol assault and by Republicans who want it over as fast as possible, AP reported.

The second impeachment trial of former US president Donald Trump was set in motion on Monday after the US House of Representatives forwarded the article of impeachment to the Senate. Carrying the charge of "incitement of insurrection," the article was read before the second chamber of Congress shortly after 7 pm on Monday (0000 GMT Tuesday), dpa reported.

The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to make Donald Trump the first US president ever to be impeached twice, formally charging him in his waning days in power with inciting an insurrection just a week after a violent mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol.

The US Vice President Pence on Tuesday rebuffed calls from House speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office, news wires reported. "I do not believe such a course of action is in the best interest of our Nation or consistent with the Constitution," Pence wrote in a letter to Pelosi released Tuesday night.

Congressional Democrats on Monday begin their drive to force President Donald Trump from office, kicking off a week of legislative action, Reuters reported.

In the aftermath of President Rumen Radev inciting the Bulgarian people to rebel, outraged citizens have started a petition against him. Thousands have already signed it, supporting the impeachment of the head of state, who essentially called for a civil war.

Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says he fears a "genocide" in Brazil because of fierce opposition to coronavirus containment measures by current President Jair Bolsonaro, whom he said should be impeached.  In an interview with AFP by video conference from his home near Sao Paulo, Lula, a hero of the Brazilian left, who served as president from 2003 to 2010, attacked the far-right leader who now holds the office.

President Donald Trump was acquitted by the US Senate on Wednesday for both articles of historic impeachment that shone a harsh light on America's divisions, without ever shaking the loyalty of his voter base. In a political triumph for the US leader, Trump drew on staunch Republican support to easily defeat a Democratic effort to expel him from office for pressuring Ukraine to help bolster his re-election effort.