In the last week, tensions in the Korean Peninsula have been rising. The battlefield may be Eastern Asia, but the potential conflict involves, and will affect, the wider world – the United Nations, China, the United States, and South Korea have already made statements, verbal and physical, about future affairs
On Thursday, March 2nd 2017, Pakistan’s cabinet met in Islamabad and approved plans to reform FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas). The area lies in northwest Pakistan, by the Afghanistan border, and has long been known for its lawlessness. For the past several decades, FATA has been governed under the Frontier
On March 5th, eleven soldiers were killed and five others were wounded on a Malian military base near the border with Burkina Faso. Though no group immediately claimed responsibility, it was likely the work of one of the Al-Qaeda affiliates active in the north of the country. The attack corresponds
Disclaimer: the following article discusses holocaust denialism and anti-Semitism. Some readers may find this content disturbing Recently, the United States has seen a rise in anti-Semitic attacks: Jewish schools have received bomb threats, graves have been spray-painted with swastikas, and synagogues have been shot at. In one week alone, there
In the region of the Gaza strip, the authorities, Hama, declared international women’s day a holiday. This included no work or school on the international holiday. However, while it was a progressive idea, that is all it remained: an idea. At the last minute, though, the Hamas authorities changed their minds.
Around 1,300 stockbreeders and farmers arrived in the Greek capital Athens on overnight ferries from Crete in the early hours of the morning of Wednesday 8th March 2017 to demonstrate against the government’s latest austerity measures. The protests turned violent, with farmers’ shepherds crooks clashing with riot police teargas, when
Police opened fire at a political rally in the southeastern town of Rajbiraj this Monday, when protesters had begun throwing stones at each other. A teenaged boy and three others were pronounced dead at a local hospital about 80km east of the protest, according to Sarbendra Khanal, spokesman for Nepal
In a very familiar set of events, the North Korean military tested four of its ballistic missiles on Monday by firing them towards Japan’s northwest coast. This particular series of long-range missile testing has been a reoccurrence over the past few months and has taken place under the direct supervision
The International Criminal Court (ICC) seated in the Netherlands has recently suffered numerous blows to its legitimacy as African nations like Burundi, the Gambia, and South Africa all vowed to leave the Court in 2016. The countries’ decisions to withdraw from the Rome Statute, or the foundational legal document of
Trump’s controversial travel ban has been under attack since the day it was implemented. Now, on the 8th of March, Hawaii has become the first state to sue the revised version of the ban, on the basis of the violation of the constitution and federal law. Douglas Chin, Hawaii’s Attorney General,
