Gang violence has skyrocketed in recent days in Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince, with 52 people reported dead and 110 injured in the neighborhood of Cité Soliel. Food insecurity has also become a grave issue as gangs have blocked roads and ports for food shipments. According to the United Nations
On July 14th, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa sent a letter via email to the parliamentary speaker announcing he would be stepping down from office, a day after fleeing the country to the Maldives and then Singapore. With this resignation, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as interim president
President Joe Biden rounded off a less-than-convincing tour of the Middle East with a high-stakes visit to Saudi Arabia. This was shortly after having made little diplomatic headway in Israel and the West Bank – Israeli missiles struck a Gaza arms factory hours after the president had left the occupied
A year after his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) was outlawed as extremist by the Kremlin, long-time staunch critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Alexei Navalny, has created a new international anti-corruption fund. It is somewhat unclear whether this is a new concept, or whether it is a rebrand of the original
On Monday July 11th, the grand chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Turkey had violated the European Convention on Human Rights by not complying with the ruling that demanded the release of philanthropist Osman Kavala. The court argued that Kavala’s detention had been carried out
Tensions have risen among Italian government officials as many leaders around the country are pleading with Prime Minister Mario Draghi to rethink his plan to resign. Draghi, who assumed office last year, won a confidence vote in parliament, but lost part of his party coalition after walked out of the
Russia, Ukraine, NATO member Turkey, and the United Nations announced a deal in the final week of July that will lead to the first resumed shipment of Ukrainian grain from Black Sea ports. The deal, brokered by the UN, will help tackle the global food crisis that has worsened since
