Recently outlined Israeli plans to establish seven new nature reserves in the occupied West Bank have been swiftly and vehemently denounced by Palestine authorities, who have pledged to take the issue to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Naftali Bennett, Israel’s Defence Minister and leader of the right-wing New Right Party,
Two of the world’s largest economies have been engaged in a bitter economic feud for the past two years. Washington has been setting increasingly harsh trade barriers on Beijing in order to economically coerce China into stopping unfair trade practices. According to the Congressional Budget Office, increased tariffs have resulted
Long before the Galapagos National Park was created in 1959, several tortoises were extracted from the Galapagos Islands with scientific purposes. Diego, a giant tortoise over 100 years old native to the Galapagos Island, was one of them. More than 80 years ago, he was extracted from the archipelago to
This past week, China’s Hong Kong liaison Wang Zhimin was removed from office and replaced by Luo Huining. The 65-year old Luo is a semi-retired leader in the Chinese Communist Party. This new role as liaison makes him the main point of contact between Beijing and Hong Kong. He replaced
Shortly following the U.S. assassination of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, three European signatories to the Iran Nuclear Deal, France, Britain, and Germany, announced that they would be triggering the dispute resolution mechanism within the treaty. The dispute mechanism will mean that the signatories have 30 days to resolve the
