In Bhutan’s recent elections – the fourth since 2008, when the Himalayan nation replaced its traditional monarchy with a parliamentary form of government – the opposition People’s Democratic Party received a mandate to solve the economic crisis that has been roiling the South Asian country. That...
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Pakistan launched retaliatory strikes Thursday on militants in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan province, raising fears of a new conflict breaking out in a region already tense due to the war between Israel and Hamas and its reverberations, the Associated Press reported. Iran said that at least...
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The Pacific state of Nauru decided to cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan and recognize China instead this week, a few days after the Taiwanese elected a Beijing-critic as their president, shrinking the country’s list of allies and threatening an imbalance of power in the region,...
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A group of individuals from the Caribbean island of Bonaire is suing the Dutch government, accusing it of human rights violations for insufficiently addressing the climate crisis, the Guardian reported. The lawsuit, filed in The Hague by eight individuals in collaboration with Greenpeace Netherlands, is demanding...
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This week, Ukrainian military intelligence said that Russia was now attacking defense industry sites, Business Insider reported, after long aiming missiles at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. Despite killing thousands of Ukrainians and leaving others without heating in the wintertime, the initial strategy failed to tame the...
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Welshman Rodney Holbrook, 75, was in his backyard shed in October when he realized the bird food he was storing had been placed into a pair of shoes. “Something strange is going on here,” he thought. He installed an infrared camera in the shed to figure...
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