On Saturday, the 19th of August, approximately fifteen thousand individuals assembled in Boston to resist the recent onslaught of neo-Nazism spurring from an incident in Charlottesville earlier this month. Some twenty-five conservatives had gathered in Boston Common Park to exercise their constitutional liberties in a ‘free speech rally.’ They were
An official for Bangladesh announced on Saturday that the country would no longer allow Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to flee into its borders. The official claims that Bangladesh has suffered “massive” social, environmental, and economic repercussions as a result of the roughly 400,000 Rohingya people, who have already entered. In
After U.S. President Donald Trump told a news conference on Friday that a military option in Venezuela was “certainly something we could pursue,” his own Vice President, Mike Pence, backpedalled immediately, claiming, “The president also remains confident that working with all of our allies across Latin America we can achieve
Sino-Indian diplomacy has fallen apart, and it is at the point where strong accusations have been made against the two Asian giants. Moreover, soldiers from the two countries have been locked in a bitter standoff since June when Chinese troops began the construction of a road through a contested region
In a recent draft of the United Nations’ (UN) annual report on Children and Armed Conflict, it documented human rights violations of over 15,500 children last year. With more than a dozen conflicts going on around the world, four thousand of the atrocities were recognized as government violations, whereas the
‘I Will Never Vote Again’. This is the title of an article by Ferdinand Bada. As I read those five words I had mixed feelings. On the one hand, I was sad and disappointed and on the other, I was okay, just okay. It was to be expected. No surprise
India’s Supreme Court has ruled that the practice of instant divorce in Islam, formally known as ‘triple talaq,’ is in violation of the Constitution, thus marking a significant victory for women’s rights campaigners. The five-judge court bench repealed the practice of instant triple talaq, citing its contravention of Constitutional morality, most
Tensions have escalated in Togo after two protesters were killed by security forces, warns Al Jazeera. The deadly protest happened in Sokode, a place 338 kilometres north of the country’s capital Lome. According to the Security Ministry, last Saturday, apart from the two deaths, 12 gendarmes were wounded in this
After weeks of chest thumping bombastic rhetoric, mutually exchanged threats of fire engulfing nuclear war by two egotistical leaders, the situation on the Korean peninsula appears to have returned to a normal, manageable state of hostility, which offers a glimmer of hope that the relevant parties will finally swallow their
On Friday, August 25, a Belgium man was shot dead by soldiers after having run at them brandishing a machete. The extent of the injuries was a wounded hand and face of two soldiers, while the 30-year-old perpetrator was taken to the hospital before he died. The Belgian man was of
