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July 23, 2024

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US President Joe Biden’s decision on Sunday not to run in the next presidential election echoed well beyond America, with leaders worldwide offering praise or criticism to the outgoing commander-in-chief, Newsweek reported. During his term, Biden’s approach to transatlantic allies contrasted with that of former President...

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July 19, 2024

The Pot Bubbles Over

The recent assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump, who is running again for the country’s top leadership post, is just the latest example of how the stew of political violence simmering throughout the world for years is now bubbling over. Following the shooting on...

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May 24, 2024

Bills Coming Due

Ghana is pressing the African Union (AU) to leverage the worldwide African diaspora to bolster the case for reparations for the trans-Atlantic trade in slaves, reported Yen, a Ghanaian news outlet. It is “important for the self-worth and self-confidence of descendants of enslaved people,” it...

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April 12, 2024

Pointillistic Terror

Russian officials continue to blame the March 24 terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall in Moscow on Ukraine, PBS News Hour wrote. But American intelligence officials say they told the Russians that the Islamic State terrorist group planned to carry out the massacre. Russian police...

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August 25, 2023

New Blood

The BRICS group of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa will add six more countries into its ranks, as key members Russia and China seek to expand the influence of the loose economic bloc to counteract Western global dominance, the Washington Post reported. After a...

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August 18, 2023

Heal Thyself

The World Health Organization called for countries to integrate traditional and complementary medicine into their healthcare systems, prompting online backlash from medical researchers who see the practices as pseudoscience, Politico reported Thursday. The United Nations agency made the announcement Thursday during the WHO Traditional Medicine Global...

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June 29, 2023

Man and Monkey

A year-long investigation by the BBC uncovered a global monkey torture ring spanning from Indonesia to the United States that has prompted an international investigation and more monitoring efforts from social media platforms. The investigation found that customers from the US, Britain, and other countries were...

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June 13, 2023

Welcome Back

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) confirmed Monday that the United States is planning to rejoin the agency after leaving it almost six years ago, a move that observers said is aimed at countering China’s rising influence within the organization, Axios reported. UNESCO...

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May 08, 2023

The End

The World Health Organization declared an end to the Covid-19 emergency over the weekend, a move that marks the official conclusion of one of worst pandemics in modern history, the Wall Street Journal reported. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the end of the emergency, saying...

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May 04, 2023

Loose Lips

Massachusetts Air National Guard Airman First Class Jack Teixeira was a Cyber Transport Systems journeyman, or an IT specialist. The 21-year-old now stands accused of making classified documents public since at least late February, potentially jeopardizing US national security, Reuters explained. He posted the secret...

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May 01, 2023

Victims of Success

Author Elizabeth Gilbert embraces romance and finds a partner in Bali after a life journey that she chronicled to great fame in her 2006 memoir, “Eat Pray Love.” Now residents of the Indonesian island are fed up with the increasingly large numbers of tourists who...

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March 30, 2023

Banking On It

Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank (ECB) recently told European Union leaders that the banking sector on the continent was strong, reported Bloomberg. Yet on the same day Lagarde spoke, shares of Deutsche Bank plunged as traders worried that the massive German bank...

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