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August 13, 2024

Fake Friends

Niger’s military junta severed diplomatic ties with Ukraine this month, the latest West African country to do so, underscoring major diplomatic shifts in the coup-plagued region where military governments are switching allegiances toward Russia, the BBC reported. Junta officials said the decision was made in “solidarity”...

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August 13, 2024

The Mrs. Degree

China this month began its first university degree program in all things related to marriage, including planning and matchmaking services, an initiative aimed at boosting the country’s falling birth rates and alleviating labor and other issues due to an aging population, CNBC reported. Starting next month,...

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August 12, 2024

Giving a Little Back

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed over the weekend that Ukrainian troops are continuing to fight local Russian border guards and conscripted convicts in Russia’s Kursk region, after Ukrainian forces launched an offensive last week that observers called a major embarrassment for the Kremlin, CNN reported. The...

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August 12, 2024

Mining Discontent

Thousands of Serbians took to the streets of the capital Belgrade over the weekend to protest against an ambitious lithium mining project in western Serbia, a project that officials say will benefit the country, but activists warn would cause irreversible environmental damage, the BBC reported. Protesters...

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August 09, 2024

The Fugitive

Former Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont returned to Spain Thursday after seven years of self-imposed exile, defying a pending arrest warrant and kicking off a national manhunt to apprehend him, CNBC News reported Thursday. Puigdemont left Spain in 2017 after an unsuccessful referendum to secure independence...

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August 09, 2024

Fear, Revived

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck off the coast of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu Thursday, prompting authorities to issue tsunami alerts and its first-ever warning of a “megaquake” from a nearby submarine trough, the Washington Post reported. The Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) said the quake...

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August 09, 2024

Facing the Light

Chad’s military is responsible for the deaths of detainees who were arrested following the October 2022 anti-government demonstrations, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), which details the abuse and poor conditions protesters faced in one of the country’s most dangerous prisons,...

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August 08, 2024

Repeat Offender

Thailand’s constitutional court dissolved the pro-democracy Move Forward Party (MFP), ruling it attempted to undermine the country’s royal defamation law during last year’s election campaign, a verdict observers said underscored a pattern suppressing democratic movements in the Southeast Asian nation, the South China Morning Post...

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August 08, 2024

Brace, Brace

Police are preparing for fresh anti-Muslim and anti-migrant demonstrations across the United Kingdom following days of violence and riots across the country in the wake of a knife attack last week that was incorrectly attributed to an illegal migrant, Reuters reported Wednesday. The government has mobilized...

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August 08, 2024

Back To Work

Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) ordered all its public employees back to the office this week, a decision that has divided opinion in the country’s most populous state over limiting the remote work practices that became prevalent during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Associated Press reported...

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August 07, 2024

After the Storm

Bangladesh’s President Mohammed Shahabuddin dissolved parliament on Tuesday following the resignation and exile of longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, while a renowned Nobel prize winner was appointed the country’s new leader, Reuters reported. On Monday, following a fresh outbreak of violence over the weekend in which...

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August 07, 2024

A Campaign of Terror

Venezuela’s attorney general on Monday launched an investigation into opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzáles and opposition leader María Corina Machado, accusing them of inciting the armed forces to disobey the government, after the pair called on them to halt actions against protesters demonstrating against President...

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August 06, 2024

Help by Proxy

Mali severed diplomatic relations with Ukraine this week over allegations Kyiv was involved in an attack by separatist rebels late last month that killed dozens of Malian soldiers and mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group, Radio Free Europe reported. On July 25, rebels led by the Tuareg...

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August 06, 2024

Closing In

Myanmar lost a military stronghold near the Chinese border, the military government confirmed this week, marking a major setback for the junta as it struggles to repel armed rebel groups following its coup in 2021, Reuters reported. Late last month, the rebel Myanmar National Democratic Alliance...

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August 06, 2024

It Takes a Village

The Swedish parliament recently passed a law that will allow grandparents to receive paid parental leave to care for their grandchildren, a move that observers have hailed as a pioneering step in extending childcare benefits beyond parents, the International Business Times reported. Under the new bill,...

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August 05, 2024

Show Me the Numbers

Mass demonstrations continued across Venezuela over the weekend, part of street protests that erupted nationwide following the July 28 presidential win of incumbent Nicolás Maduro amid accusations of fraud and irregularities, Merco Press reported. Last week, Venezuela’s electoral authority declared Maduro the winner of the vote...

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August 05, 2024

Embers Ignite

Fresh protests erupted across Bangladesh over the weekend, killing at least 91 people, after thousands took to the country’s streets demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina following widespread accusations of excessive force and government mismanagement, Al Jazeera reported. Violence erupted in multiple cities as...

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