Day: December 26, 2020

Tensions Continue To Rise Between India, China, And Pakistan

Hostilities between China and India have been rising once again since April, and this July, Chinese and Indian soldiers clashed along their shared Himalayan border in the strategically important Galwan Valley. 20 Indian and five Chinese soldiers were killed in hand-to-hand fighting, with both sides blaming the other for initiating

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Iran’s Conflicting Reports On Nuclear Scientist Death Raises Concerns

On November 27th, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the head scientist for Iranian nuclear development, was shot in his car in Tehran. Following the assassination, Iranian authorities released various conflicting reports on how Fakhrizadeh was killed. At first, officials believed that both Fakhrizadeh and one of his bodyguards died in a gunfight between

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U.S. Slaps Sanctions On 14 Chinese Officials Over Hong Kong Crackdown

On December 7th, the United States levied sanctions against 14 members of the Chinese government and their immediate family in response to Beijing’s infringements on Hong Kong’s democratic rights. Despite the 1977 One Country Two Systems treaty, China has increasingly been taking authoritarian steps to control Hong Kong’s government. Formerly

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Donald Trump’s Last-Minute Wave Of Pardons And Executions

In his final few days in office, Donald Trump has used the opportunity to issue a range of Presidential pardons to allies, family members, and even convicted war criminals. Meanwhile, his administration has rushed through a string of federal executions, breaking with a 130-year-old precedent that has previously prevented such

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Would You Call This A Victory? More Than 300 Students Released By Boko Haram

Hundreds of students from the Kankara Government Science Secondary School have been rescued by Nigerian authorities. The students were kidnapped in Nigeria’s north-western state of Katsina on Friday, 11 December. Governor Aminu Bello Masari explained that the state security agencies had located the hostages in the Rugu forest, in neighbouring

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