After weeks of violent unrest in Kazakhstan in reaction to anti-government protests, the Kazakh government claims to have retaken control of government buildings in all regions of the country. The unrest has killed over a hundred people, and thousands have been injured or arrested. Tensions in Kazakhstan boiled over in
The United States joined Russia, Britain, France, and China in a joint statement condemning the use of nuclear weapons, stating that no one will win in the case of nuclear war. The five countries, all permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, currently amass 96 percent of nuclear warheads
Last Monday, January 3rd, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the Bucharest Nine group of NATO allies to discuss the number of Russian military troops stationed along the Ukrainian border. In addition, the group discussed several strategies to create a united front against the military presence, one of
On January 3, five Syrian soldiers were killed and 20 were injured in a rocket attack while aboard a military transport bus. Syrian state media reported that fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), followed the attack with artillery shelling. The attack
Growing protests in Kazakhstan over inflated fuel prices have unearthed an undercurrent of grievances with the countries economic and political structure. The peaceful protests began on the 2nd of January in central Zhanaozen, an oil-rich city situated in the western half of Kazakhstan territory, and in other surrounding cities, citizens demonstrated
The European Commission has filed proposals to label some natural gas and nuclear energy as green in the European taxonomy list on December 31st, 2021. The European Union taxonomy involves blocks of classification systems that aim to guide investments in the energy sector and is used to give investors appropriate definitions
The United States saw some of the worst climate-related disasters in 2021, and it seems as though the problem is only getting worse. Fires have been raging almost constantly across the west coast, and raging snowstorms have blocked travel on the east coast. Additionally, at the start of 2021, a
