After more than one hundred former high-ranking personnel in the Turkish navy signed a statement in defense of the Montreux Convention, ten retired admirals were detained by Turkish leadership on April 5. The Montreux Convention is a 1936 agreement implemented by Turkey about security, stability, and conditional freedom of passage
Following a statement released by G7 Foreign Ministers on April 2nd, Eritrean troops have begun withdrawing from Tigray, Ethiopia. These troops were providing military support to the Ethiopian government but have been accused of carrying out massacres and human rights abuses in the country. Until last month, both the Ethiopian
Nearly five months ago, conflict erupted in northern Ethiopia. A media blackout had all but smothered any information coming out of the country, with calls for a ceasefire falling on deaf years in late November of last year. While the U.S. calls for a ceasefire were once again ignored last
Nepal’s air quality is becoming highly hazardous. Its capital, Kathmandu, is situated in such a way that most of its pollution lingers over time. The local government has recorded an increase in air pollution and is starting to worry about long-term consequences for its citizens’ health. According to the Air
The National People’s Congress, China’s highest legislative body, has unanimously approved a bill of radical changes to Hong Kong’s political system aimed at suppressing pro-democracy opposition. The bill, which passed on March 30th, drastically reduces the number of directly elected representatives in the legislature and gives national security bodies new
