In a bid to dominate global growth by 2050, four emerging national economies decided in 2001 to co-operate and partner their efforts in 2001. Known as B.R.I.C., this partnership comprises Brazil, Russia, India, and China. However, South Africa was added as a new member in 2010, bringing the number of
On December 14th, the European Council, the body comprising the twenty-seven countries of the European Union, announced that will initiate the negotiates for the accessions of Ukraine and Moldova. The decision was approved with unanimity from the representants of twenty-six countries, while the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán left the
In a concerning development, Yemen’s Houthi rebels have seized a British-owned, Japanese-operated commercial vessel, the Galaxy-leader, in the Red Sea. The Iran-backed group, claiming the ship was Israeli-flagged, declared this act as the commencement of a “battle of the sea”. The incident, which involved masked individuals boarding the ship from
On Tuesday, November 7, in a deeply troubling development, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and activist Ales Bialiatski was transferred to solitary confinement at a prison in Belarus, according to his wife, Natalia Pinchuk. This drastic move comes amidst an already challenging environment, as Bialiatski serves a 10-year sentence, facing harsh
The South Korean military crossed over to the northern side of the inter-Korean maritime border to help rescue a stranded North Korean vessel, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said on Sunday, October 29th. South Korea says the navy provided food and water to the crew who wished to return
For the first time, Mozambique has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) of the H7 group, among poultry in the southern part of the country, according to the official notification to the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH). Mozambique’s health authorities said that the bird flu outbreak
