On Monday this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin advised U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson that members of the NATO military alliance were threatening Russia by increasing their presence along the Ukraine-Russia border. This comes in response to the mass amounts of Russian troops and artillery brought near the eastern Ukrainian
On November 21st, the first round of Chile’s presidential elections occurred and far-right presidential candidate José Antonio Kast received an outpouring of support, leading with 27.91% of the vote. This has concerned women across Chile, due to Kast’s history of supporting socially regressive policies. In response, on November 25th, women
Putin has stated that Russia is now the global leader in hypersonic missiles and the advanced developments that have been added to them. He also made the point that by the time other countries catch up, Russia is likely to have developed technology to counter any new weapons. Hypersonic weapons
A Palestinian man was killed in the occupied West Bank by undercover Israeli security forces working in tandem with the IDF on Monday. Haaretz reports that Israeli soldiers opened fire after Palestinians in the city of Nablus threw explosives at them, which ended in 31-year-old Jamil Kiel’s death and three
In recent days, fewer migrants have been attempting to cross the border between Poland and Belarus, according to a group of journalists that were permitted to enter the area this past Monday. The European Union has accused Belarus of engineering a migrant crisis on the Polish border to destabilize rival
On November 29th, the World Health Organization recognized a new COVID-19 variant that had been discovered by South African researchers earlier that month. After the announcement, several high-income countries, including the U.S. and the U.K., implemented widespread South African travel bans, even though the Omicron variant had been recorded in
Iran turned in another set of proposals marked unrealistic by western powers during international nuclear talks. The talks aim at restoring the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), attended by diplomats from the P4+1 – China, France, Russia, the U.K., and Germany. The U.S. also resumed short-lived indirect talks with
Earlier this week, the de facto ruler and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, embarked on a tour of neighbouring Gulf Arab states. The tour will take him to Oman, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Qatar, and Kuwait, according to the official Saudi Press Agency. Al Jazeera
