On Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026, the United Nations General Assembly officially elected five new nations to join the Security Council. Portugal, Austria, Kyrgyzstan, Zimbabwe, and Trinidad and Tobago will join the 15-member Security Council starting in 2027. Many UN member states lobbied for seats but were defeated, such as Germany
Two people were arrested and eleven officers and a police dog were injured in the June 2nd protests over the death of Henry Nowak that took place in Southampton, England, on the street where he was murdered. Henry, an 18 year-old first year University of Southampton student, was stabbed by
On March 4th, 2026, Iranian forces declared the Strait of Hormuz “closed.” Roughly 20 percent of global LNG, one third of the world’s fertiliser, and 20 million barrels of oil passed through the Strait in 2025, exposing the cost of energy dependence on conflict-prone chokepoints. Since Iran shut the Strait,
