On May 27th, Al Jazeera announced that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had ended his tour of the Middle-East to maintain the ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian military in Gaza. Blinken further emphasized the importance of working towards “equality” for Palestinians and at the same time, assured
A vote from members of the European Union (EU) to freeze any further considerations into a massive investment deal with China has resulted in an overwhelming response of 599 votes in favour of freezing the deal and only 30 votes against. The vote to freeze the China Comprehensive Agreement Investment
After a military coup ousted the president and prime minister of Mali’s transitional government, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has suspended Mali’s membership. At an emergency summit held on May 30th, leaders of the 15-member bloc voted to temporarily suspend Mali and urged authorities to follow a
On Tuesday, May 25th, 2021, several people were severely injured during protests in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. One of which, passed away at a later date. According to the international news provider Reuters, Iraqi security forces fired live rounds into the air to disperse the protests taking place against
On the first Monday of May, Foreign Minister of the Philippines, Teodoro Locsin Jr., issued tweets aimed at the government of China rife with language that could be considered vulgar. In this series of tweets released on his personal Twitter page, he implored Beijing to remove their ships from the
On 2 May 2021, Turkish authorities removed followers of Islamic opposition figure Alparslan Kuytul forcefully from three mosques in southeast Turkey, claiming their gatherings were a provocation against COVID-19 restrictions. These followers audibly exclaimed they were reading the Koran in footage that showed a police skirmish inside a mosque in
Around 200 schoolchildren have been reportedly abducted by armed men on motorbikes in Central Nigeria on the 30th of May. The pupils, who attended the Salihu Tanko Islamic School in Tegina town, Rafi, in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger, were abducted by men who fired their weapons indiscriminately at
On 24 May, the United States sent files to Mexico’s government in relation to the investigation of the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping, and massacre of 43 students training to be teachers. Trainees from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College were kidnapped by police suspected of corruption and working with a drug
A transition of power has yet to take place in a historic Samoan election, despite a fairly certain electoral outcome. The anticipated new Prime Minister, Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, Samoa’s first female Cabinet Minister and daughter of Samoa’s first PM, would now become the first female PM of Samoa and join
Former Health Minister of Brazil Eduardo Pazuello, now an active-duty general, is expected to face punishment for attending a far-right political rally in Rio de Janeiro, held for President Jair Bolsonaro. According to Vice President and military general Hamilton Mourao, Pazuello’s attendance directly violates the precedent set for the Brazilian
Following the negotiations set up between the United States and Iran earlier this month, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reported this week he was unsure if Tehran was willing to comply again. Within the 2015 nuclear deal, Tehran agreed to reduce its nuclear development and make it harder to
