Turkish police prevented an attempt by Pride activists to hold a parade in Istanbul on June 25. Police fired rubber bullets at small groups of around 40 activists who gathered in the country’s largest city in spite of a ban issued by the local authorities, an AFP journalist reported. The […]
While many easily dismissed North Korea’s nuclear capabilities before just three months ago, it is time to seriously evaluate North Korea’s nuclear threats. At the beginning of July 2017, North Korea announced that it had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile. North Korea officially stated that the missile it tested reached an altitude of […]
In September 2016, the Colombian government and the FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), the country’s largest guerrilla force, signed a historic peace agreement, with President Juan Manuel Santos declaring that “we don’t accept violence as the means of defending ideas.” However, hopes of lasting stability have waned in recent months as […]
A skirmish along the Sino-Bhutanese border involving up to 6,000 Indian and Chinese troops has occupied international media for the last two weeks. It was triggered on June 16, when the Chinese army started building a road that Bhutan alleged was on its territory. Indian troops were called in to […]
