SARS-CoV-2, or the coronavirus, has been spreading rapidly across the globe in recent weeks. It has dominated media coverage since it appeared right after the new year. On December 31, 2019, Chinese authorities were treating dozens of pneumonia cases with unknown causes. On January 11th, China reported its first death
The figurehead of a religious group in South Korea is under investigation by the government in several recent deaths related to the novel coronavirus. The local government in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, has asked the prosecution to charge Lee Man-hee, the founder of Shincheonji Church, along with at
Last Monday’s disputed general election has set off protests across Guyana as opposition supporters forced road closures, shuttered businesses and clashed with police. Reuters reported that a teenager had been shot by police, and that law enforcement officials had surrounded the offices of the country’s elections commission, GECOM. The ballot
Three people are counted among the casualties of a suicide bombing near the U.S. embassy in Tunisia on Friday, March 6. Two unidentified terrorists rode toward the embassy on a motorcycle rigged with a large amount of explosives, detonating them, killing themselves, a police officer, and injuring five others. There
On Wednesday the 19th of February, United Nations Humanitarian Chief Mark Lowcock addressed the UN Security Council, warning them of an “unfolding humanitarian catastrophe” in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province. He noted that the crisis had already overwhelmed aid efforts, and is only likely to get worse. In the Idlib region,
A senior State Department official reported on Tuesday 3 March, that the U.S. is to appoint a Special Envoy to the Sahel region, according to Agence France-Presse. Meanwhile, arguments in Congress, concerning the country’s ongoing military presence in the region and the potential withdrawal of troops, continue to simmer. This
