On November 30th, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that if NATO continued to disobey Russia’s “Red Lines” in Ukraine, Moscow would retaliate. According to the Financial Times, this threat was extremely firm as, Mr. Putin said “that Moscow had developed hypersonic missiles and would be forced to respond ‘if NATO
The United States started its Nuclear Posture Review in July of 2021. The NPR dictates nuclear policy decisions for the current administration. The international community is worried that the Biden Administration will switch to a “no first use” declaration in regard to nuclear weapons. In an effort to limit nuclear
This past weekend, China sent a record number of military aircraft over Taiwan. According to CNN, between Friday, October 1st and Saturday, October 2nd, 77 Chinese warplanes were detected in Taiwan’s defense zone. This record number of incursions falls on China’s National Day which celebrates 72 years since the founding
In July 2021, the New York Times published a report outlining systemic sexual abuse in hospitals, prisons and police custody. This report has continued to shed light on women’s issues in the country, which Egypt has claimed to be fixing for at least a decade. Sexual abuse is an issue for Egyptian
On Wednesday, July 14th, the European Union (EU) announced legislation to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and bring Europe to a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. There are 12 new legislative proposals to help accomplish this goal. Some of the most prominent are eliminating the sale of new gas and diesel
Early Wednesday morning on July 7th, the President of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, was assassinated in his home. This has created panic and unrest throughout the country as interim prime minister Claude Joseph lacks legitimacy or control of the government. The New York Times reports “A new prime minister had been
On Monday 28 June, United States President Joe Biden authorized airstrikes against two Iran-backed militias in Saudi-Arabia and Iraq. This was in response to recent attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq. While there were no U.S. casualties, Biden’s administration has shown that they want to deter both lethal and non-lethal
On June 15, 2021, Hungary’s parliament adopted an anti-LGBTQ+ bill into law. In the few weeks, this law has received international criticism, especially from the European Union. As reported by the New York Times, the law aims to “require the labelling of all content that might fall into that category
On 13 June 2021, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s 12-year reign as leader of Israel finally came to an end, ushering in a new coalition in which the predominant parties found very little in common, other than their desire to get Netanyahu out of office. The New York Times writes that the
Early in the week of June 7th, Vice President Kamala Harris travelled to Central America, focusing her speeches on U.S. migration concerns. In particular, she told Guatemalans, “Do not come. Do not come. The United States will continue to enforce our laws and secure our border.” Al Jazeera reports that
On May 24th, 2020, the Foreign Ministry of Ethiopia announced that it would “be forced to reassess its relations with the United States, which might have implications beyond our bilateral relationship.” Al Jazeera reports that this is in response to the United States announcing restrictions on Ethiopian and Eritrean officials as
On May 31 2021 Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern held a joint Press Conference in Queenstown, New Zealand. While these two countries previously diverged in their criticism towards China’s treatment of their citizens, at this Conference both Prime Ministers joined in denouncing China’s
Over the past 11 days, violence has once again broken out between Hamas and Israel. With ongoing bombings and over 200 Palestinian deaths and around 12 Israeli deaths, countries and international human rights organizations have a variety of comments on the conflict. Within the past week, President Erdogan of Turkey
On May 10 and 11 of 2021, Denmark hosted the Democracy Summit in Copenhagen. Denmark received some backlash from the Chinese government as President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan was invited to the Summit. China views Taiwan as their territory, making this invitation to the Democracy Summit look like EU acknowledgment
On April 14th 2021, President Joe Biden announced his plan to have all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by September 11, 2021 to end what he called the “Forever War.” NATO quickly followed suit, agreeing to begin withdrawal May 2021 to hopefully be completed by September 2021. As reported by
