In a telephone call to then French President-elect Emmanuel Macron last Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed China’s pledge to uphold the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement, which entered into force in November 2016, aims to limit the rise in global temperature to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by […]
The French presidential election earlier this week saw centrist Emmanuel Macron triumph over far-right Marine Le Pen. Macron won comfortably with 66% of the vote, while Le Pen received a mere 34%. The turnout for the election was the lowest it has been in decades. Twelve million voters abstained and […]
During a press conference in April of this year, Sean Spicer, the official spokesperson for the Trump Administration, claimed that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was worse than Hitler because at least “Hitler didn’t even sink to the level of using chemical weapons” against his “own people,” but took them instead […]
The French election on May 7 was monitored for interference more closely than usual. Yet, hackers targeted a liberal candidate to benefit the far-right candidate in a situation all too familiar after the recent US election. In this case, Emmanuel Macron became the victim of #MacronLeaks, a mass release of […]
On Sunday the 7th of May, French voters will participate in the final round of the French Election determining who will be their next President. Their choices are between two candidates; Emmanuel Macron, an independent centrist and founder of the En Marche! party, and Marine Le Pen, of the right-wing […]
Last Saturday, French fighter jets bombed several suspected weapons factories in Mali, as part of its efforts to bring the country’s ongoing civil war to an end. Though they did not identify the groups who had been targeted, France did say that about 20 had been killed in the strike. […]
The German Parliament recently supported a preliminary bill that bans women from wearing full-face veils while employed in the civil service, judiciary, and military. The law is still to be approved by the Bundesrat State Parliament. The motion was initiated by both right-wing and centrist politicians but opposed by the […]
Voters went to the polls yesterday for the first round of the French presidential election. The top two candidates, independent centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right Marine Le Pen, will face off in the run-off on May 7. With 24.01% for Macron and 21.3% for Le Pen, neither candidate secured a […]
The first round of voting in the French presidential election has decided that Marine Le Pen, the far-right leader of the National Front, will face-off against Emmanuel Macron, the leader of the centrist En Marche! Party, in the final vote on the 7th of May. This is the first time […]
On 7th April 2017 in New York, following lengthy negotiations, the UN’s Commission on Population and Development ended late without any official decisions. The 50th Session of the Commission on Population and Development came to a surprise conclusion when it was unable to adopt a resolution on its theme of “changing population age […]
