In recent days, fewer migrants have been attempting to cross the border between Poland and Belarus, according to a group of journalists that were permitted to enter the area this past Monday. The European Union has accused Belarus of engineering a migrant crisis on the Polish border to destabilize rival
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte lambasted the “idiot” rioters who stormed through the country’s cities this weekend after protests against COVID-19 restrictions turned violent. Citizens throughout the country set fire to cars and threw rocks and fireworks at police officers in a dramatic display of frustration with the disruptions that
Three Kuwaiti dissidents returned home on Monday after ten years of self-imposed exile in Turkey. The three politicians were recently pardoned by Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah, as part of his efforts to appease opposing legislators, who have held the country in a state of gridlock. Jamaan al-Harbesh, Mubarak Al-Waalan,
The Democratic Republic of the Congo announced on Tuesday that they had pushed rebel groups out of two Eastern villages that they had seized that Sunday. The military stated that the insurgents were members of M23, a millitant group that attempted a violent rebellion in 2013. The takeover in Tshanzu
This past Monday, two human rights groups filed a complaint in Germany accusing six high-ranking Belarusian security authorities of crimes against humanity. Since August 2020, Belarusian officials have mounted a campaign of mass detention, torture, and sexual violence in an attempt to quell anti-government protests sparked by President Alexander Lukashenko’s
Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi announced on October 25th that he had lifted the country’s state of emergency for the first time in four years. Originally instituted after a string of deadly church bombings in 2017, el-Sisi has repeatedly extended the declaration, using it to crack down on political dissidents.
On Monday, the World Bank announced that it was seeking $100 billion in donations to address global reversals in development caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Lagging vaccination rates, supply chain bottlenecks, and economic inflation have throttled poorer countries’ growth in the past year, exacerbating gaps between advanced economies and low-income
This past Sunday, Turkey pushed a Greek-Cypriot research vessel away from what it claims to be its continental shelf, signaling their willingness to assert control over disputed regions of the Mediterranean. The confrontation takes place days before Greece and Turkey are set to resume diplomatic talks, undermining hopes of a
The NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) increased its patrols on the Kosovo-Serbia border this past Monday as tensions escalated over a dispute about license plates. Though a de-escalation deal between the disputing parties was reached on Thursday, the quarrel represents the latest flare-up in the long-simmering tensions between Kosovo and Serbia.
North Korea reported a successful test of its new long-range cruise missile systems on Monday. North Korea’s new missiles are able to reach most of Japan, possessing a range that is several orders of magnitude larger than their older systems. The first missile test in six months, North Korea’s actions
