On October 18, 2020, marking the anniversary of the violent protests that left 30 dead in Chile last year, tens of thousands of Chileans took to the streets to demand government reform. The peaceful protest quickly devolved into violence as protestors hurled Molotov cocktails and debris at police who in
Western Myanmar insurgents claimed responsibility for kidnapping three candidates from State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi’s ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD). On 14 October, armed Arakan Army (AA) operatives overran a campaign event in southern Rakhine. When speaking with Agence France Press, witness and NLD supporter Thant
The RDIF, also known as the Russian Direct Investment Fund has been working with a pharmaceutical company called Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories in India to create a vaccine for coronavirus since September. They have received approval to conduct the later stages of the clinical trials on people in India. They were
After 16 years as a social media platform, Facebook is taking more aggressive steps towards censoring content on its site. On October 12th, Facebook issued a ban on all content “denying or distorting the Holocaust,” according to NPR. Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was under pressure by multiple
On Monday, October 12th, the United States launched airstrikes in the Helmand province of Afghanistan against Taliban fighters, reports Reuters. The strikes are especially shocking, as the United States had previously signed an agreement with the Taliban to withdraw troops this past February. Under this deal, both the United States
For several months, Algeria has been forcibly and violently expelling thousands of migrants – both registered asylum seekers and undocumented migrants – to Niger. According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), mass arrests are taking place and asylum seekers in cities such as Oran, Algiers, and Blida have been stripped of
