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June 27, 2022

Blinking

Ecuador lifted a state of emergency in six provinces over the weekend amid an Indigenous-led nationwide strike that has blocked the country’s capital from receiving food and other supplies, the Associated Press reported. President Guillermo Lasso ended the state of emergency following a Saturday meeting between...

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June 24, 2022

The Loaded Swimsuit

France’s top administrative court ruled against the wearing of full-body swimwear, including the burkini, in public pools this week, amid an intense national debate about the country’s principle of secularism and the respect for fundamental rights, Reuters reported. The case began when the city of Grenoble...

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June 23, 2022

Capsized

Sri Lanka’s economy has “completely collapse,” according to the country’s prime minister, who warned that the South Asian island is in such a dire state it cannot pay for essential oil imports, Sky News reported Wednesday. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told parliament Wednesday that the country...

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June 22, 2022

We Rise, We Fall

Israel will hold its fifth election in three years after the country’s diverse but fragile ruling coalition collapsed amid internal disputes over the future of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, NPR reported. The government dissolved after lawmakers from Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s nationalist party...

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June 22, 2022

Getting Clean

Canada will ban the production and importation of single-use plastics by the end of the year as part of an effort to boost its fight against pollution and climate change, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. The Environment Ministry said most plastic grocery bags, cutlery and straws...

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June 22, 2022

We, Too!

Tens of thousands of Georgians marched in the streets of the capital, Tbilisi, this week to demand closer relations with the European Union, just days after the European Commission recommended deferring Georgia’s candidacy, Agence France-Presse reported. Roughly 60,000 people rallied outside the Georgian parliament waving Ukrainian,...

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June 21, 2022

Turning Left

Leftist Senator Gustavo Petro won Colombia’s presidential elections Sunday, making him the first leftwing candidate and first former insurgent to be elected as president of the US’ key ally in Latin America, the Wall Street Journal reported. Petro secured slightly more than 50 percent of the...

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June 21, 2022

The Speed Bumps

French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition lost its parliamentary majority following Sunday’s legislative elections, a vote that could result in a difficult five-year term for the incumbent, Politico reported Monday. The results showed that Macron’s Ensemble alliance won 245 seats in the 577-seat lower house of...

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June 21, 2022

Suffer the Many

Gunmen killed more than 200 people in Ethiopia’s Oromia region this week as the country continues to grapple with rising ethnic tensions, the Associated Press reported. Witnesses counted about 230 bodies, saying most of them were members of the ethnic Amhara community that moved to the...

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June 17, 2022

Bread and Roses

Tunisia’s main trade union bloc launched a nationwide strike Thursday shutting down the country, and adding pressure to the already embattled president amid an ongoing political and economic crisis, Agence France-Presse reported. The UGTT confederation called on three million public sector workers to walk off their...

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