The Defense Secretary of the United States, Llyod Austin, addressed China’s coercive and aggressive actions in a keynote speech at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s premier defense conference. Austin vows that the United States will stand by its partners to resist the pressures of China. In his keynote speech, he said,
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, the ripples of the conflict are heavily amplifying Africa’s food shortage crisis. Moreover, the effects of the Ukraine war have extended its arm into Africa economically and politically in ways that prove to multiply existing obstacles towards the preservation of human rights. Of those
A majority of voters in Kazakhstan have voted to approve a constitutional referendum that contains many provisions to ensure that presidential power is limited, signaling a move towards democracy for the former Soviet state. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held the referendum, a first for the country in twenty-seven years, with a
In the past few months, several mass shootings have occurred in the United States. The Supreme Court of the United States is feeling pressure from voices around the country to enact stricter gun control laws. As cited in the Gun Violence Archive, a mass shooting is defined as having at
On May 11, a Palestinian American journalist was shot dead by Israeli forces. The journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, was a correspondent for Al Jazeera and was killed while wearing a press vest and covering an Israeli raid in the city of Jenin. Along with Abu Akleh, another journalist named Ali
On May 16th, Finnish Ambassador to Germany Anne Sipilainein claimed to the German newspaper Die Welt that Finland is “well prepared for all kinds of possible threats [from Russia] – not only military but also cyber hybrid attacks and information operations.” This statement comes a day after Finland’s President Sauli
