Although Andrzej Duda failed to win the first round of the Polish presidential election, he managed to defeat his liberal challenger, Rafal Trzaskowski, with a very narrow majority on July 12th. Duda’s party, Law and Justice, has dominated Polish politics in the last few years with a culture that discriminates
Lebanese politicians faced backlash from Christian religious authorities on Sunday, as fears of hunger and economic crises arose. The conflict could lead to instability not seen since the country’s 15-year civil war. A top Christian cleric, the Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, said in a sermon according to Reuters that
2020 has characterised this new decade through a state of instability, emphasising long-standing inequalities. By recognizing the divisions along the lines of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and socioeconomic status, we can begin to understand how there has been a lack of a cohesive and consistent public health response to current Coronavirus
Russian police arrested dozens of people on Wednesday during a protest against constitutional reforms that gave President Vladimir Putin the option to remain in power for another 16 years, witnesses and a monitoring group reported. Nearly 500 demonstrators gathered in Moscow calling for the President to resign following a dubious
