On October 23, 2020, in the Guinea capital, gunfire and protests occurred after results revealed President Alpha Condé, aged 82, won a high stakes election. According to preliminary results from the election commission, Condé won twice as many votes as his rival, Cellou Dalein Diallo. In March, Condé called for
Foreign policy analysts often comment that the effectiveness of a country’s response to coronavirus is pinned to its bureaucracy. Particularly, the ability of the bureaucracy to take the advice of experts and transform it into actionable and functional policies. For example, both Vietnam and New Zealand have had incredibly effective
Four people were killed and twenty-three wounded in a terrorist attack in Vienna, Austria last Monday, November 2nd , after a gunman wielding an automatic rifle and a machete fired into crowds enjoying one final evening in the city before another coronavirus curfew. The Austrian police shot and killed the
On October 2nd, 18 women were removed from a Sydney-bound flight in Doha and forced to undergo invasive gynecological exams after a premature baby was found abandoned in the airport bathroom. Airport officials claim such actions were taken in the interest of tracking down and preventing the escape of this
On Saturday, November 8th, 2020, Joseph R. Biden Jr. was projected to become the 46th President of the United States. The verdict became clear after he won the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which pushed his Electoral College votes over the 270 he required to win. While Biden’s win was met with
ISIS has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomber attack occurring on October 24th, 2020 which targeted an education centre in the Dasht-e-Barchi sector of Kabul, Afghanistan. The incident left at least 24 individuals dead and approximately 57 injured. Many of the victims were between the ages of 15 and 26,
As of earlier this week, according to a short report from the Reuters Staff, Russia has proposed a set of de-escalation arms control measures since the collapse of the INF nuclear arms control treaty. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty was a 1987 Cold War-era treaty that prohibited putting land-based
