Since its 12 original member states signed the treaty in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has served Western security interests, aiming to prevent future wars in Europe by promising a collective military response to attacks on NATO member nations. NATO’s core tenet is Article 5, which stipulates that
A statement by Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on cross-strait relations has escalated tensions between China and Japan. After taking office in October, Takaichi commented on how Japan would respond if China were to attack Taiwan, which was unusual, with Takaichi taking several steps further than her predecessors, who had
Ukraine, the U.S., and the E3 (France, Germany, and the United Kingdom) opened negotiations in Geneva this week on a draft peace plan criticized for mirroring Russian demands, amid some of Ukraine’s fiercest fighting in months. According to Reuters, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the session “probably the
In northern Ghana, hundreds of women live in exile after being accused of witchcraft, cast out to remote settlements often called “witch camps.” These camps (six of them remaining today) are touted by some as sanctuaries, but in reality function as sites of gender-based violence and human rights abuse (Pulitzer
