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November 01, 2023

Simmer and Boil

Iranians staged renewed anti-government protests this week following the recent death of 16-year-old Armita Geravand, which occurred following a confrontation with Iran’s morality police, Radio Free Europe reported. Demonstrations occurred in a number of cities, including the capital Tehran, with protesters carrying placards with anti-government slogans...

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October 31, 2023

Message Received

Colombian opposition candidates secured a series of victories in the country’s gubernatorial and local elections this week, dealing a blow to the leftist coalition government of President Gustavo Petro as it struggles with low approval ratings, Reuters reported. Sunday’s polls for mayors, governors and other regional...

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October 31, 2023

Feline Fraud

Chinese police rescued more than 1,000 cats from being slaughtered and sold as pork or mutton, an incident that sparked concern across the country over food safety and animal rights, the BBC reported. State-affiliated media said this month that police conducted the rescue operation following a...

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October 30, 2023

Legal Eagles

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele will seek reelection in next year’s presidential race, a move that some say is illegal because it violates the country’s constitution, the Associated Press reported. On Thursday, Bukele and his running mate, Vice President Félix Ulloa, registered as candidates of the ruling...

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October 26, 2023

Slow Paces

Japan’s supreme court ruled Wednesday that the government cannot require transgender people to undergo sterilization in order to change their legal gender, a ruling that places the country in line with other developed democracies on LGBTQ rights, Bloomberg reported. The case centered on a Japanese man...

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October 25, 2023

The Blame Game

China this week denied involvement in the damaging of an underwater gas pipeline linking Finland with Estonia and the European Union, an incident that Finnish investigators have labeled as sabotage, Al Jazeera reported. Earlier this month, Finnish authorities discovered that the Balticconector gas pipeline was leaking...

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October 24, 2023

Cry For Me

Argentina is headed for a presidential runoff after the two top vote-getters – the economy minister and a right-wing legislator – failed to garner enough support to win the election outright, the BBC reported Monday. The favorite, Javier Milei, a brash libertarian congressman who rallied young...

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October 24, 2023

Riding High

The right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) scored one of its best results ever in national elections, capitalizing on a campaign that stressed concerns over immigration and other domestic issues, Bloomberg reported Monday. The SVP won 28.6 percent of votes in Sunday’s election, up from 25.6 percent...

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