Myanmar holds nationwide elections on November 8, but with a rapidly increasing COVID-19 infection and death rate, traditional campaign activities cannot occur. Instead, the parties turned their attention to social media and the unique aid of trishaw drivers. In Myanmar, trishaw—three-wheeled passenger bikes—are a common and popular form of public […]
On Monday, India’s top court ordered prominent lawyer and civil rights activist Prashan Bhushan, 63, to pay a symbolic fine of one rupee, less than two cents, after convicting him for criminal contempt for tweets posted in August. The tweets in question criticized the Supreme Court’s chief justice and claimed […]
Serbia purchased a new generation of medium-range, radar-guided surface-to-air missiles from China within the last year, showing a deepening partnership between the two countries. The purchase came to light due to the release of a state-run arms company Jugoimport SDPR’s annual report, which was submitted to the state Business Registers […]
Ethiopia’s government said on Sunday that over 166 people were killed in the course of anti-government protests that erupted in the country last week. The state’s capital and other protest hotspots remain under heavy guard by security forces. After the protests began, the government also instituted a blanket internet shutdown […]
Earlier this week, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro led a rally of his supporters in a protest against the country’s Supreme Court. Currently, the Court is in the midst of investigating the right-wing Bolsonaro for his interference in police affairs, as well as beginning an inquiry into alleged libel and intimidation […]
The European Union recently held an online summit where over eight billion dollars was pledged to aid in developing a vaccine to battle COVID-19, and to fund research studying the diagnosis and treatment of the virus. The final donors included more than thirty countries and several UN and philanthropic organizations […]
At least twenty-five Malian soldiers are dead after an attack on a military base in Bamba, a small town located in the north of Mali. According to Al Jazeera, twelve of the assailants were “‘neutralized’ during the ‘terrorist’ attack early on Monday morning, the government said in a statement, without […]
In India’s capital city of Delhi, 43 are now dead and thousands more are injured after a sharp uptick in Hindu nationalist violence against Muslims, spurred by the rhetoric and actions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s populist government. Over four days, a mob of Hindu nationalists set mosques on fire […]
Nearly a decade after the initial release of his controversial WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange is still a significant point of contention and is now fighting extradition from the United Kingdom to the United States on charges of espionage. Assange first gained notoriety in 2010 after publishing a classified video from […]
Earlier this week, the Dominican Republic suspended municipal elections four hours after the commencement of voting. Officials enacted this suspension after discovering a problem with the electronic voting system. At this time, election officials are still investigating what caused the glitch with the system. The country opted to hold a […]
On the afternoon of Sunday 9 February, armed soldiers and police officers aided President Nayib Bukele in a storming of the El Salvador parliament building. According to CNN, he took this action as a means of demanding that “opposition lawmakers vote to approve his plan to secure a $109 million […]
Pope Francis converted a nineteenth-century palace in St. Peter’s Square, neighboring the Vatican, into a homeless shelter in the heart of Rome. For the past seven decades, the Palazzo Migliori was the home of the Calasanziane order of religious women. They vacated the building last year, and those in charge […]
Last Thursday, the Polish legislature passed measures that would allow judges to face disciplinary action if they rule on cases in a way with which the government disagrees. This legislation will significantly reduce the autonomy of judges, giving that authority to the Minister of Justice, Zbigniew Ziobro. Poland’s ruling party, […]
On Saturday evening, a missile struck a mosque in a military training camp in Marib, Yemen. The al-Estiqbal military training camp is within Marib, which, according to Reuters, is “held by the internationally-recognized government of President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.” The attack killed 79 people as well as wounding 81 […]
On Monday, a high court in Pakistan reversed a guilty verdict and death sentence for former leader Pervez Musharraf on charges of treason, ruling the court’s formation unconstitutional. This special court sentenced Musharraf, who is currently seeking medical treatment in Dubai, to death in December on charges of treason resulting […]
On Sunday, pro-government lawmakers in Venezuela announced the swearing-in of a new president of the National Assembly after barring several opposition congressmen, including leader Juan Guaidó, from entering the legislative building. Guaidó is the incumbent National Assembly President and was presumed to win reelection to the position. Instead, he and […]
Ahead of a year-end deadline posed by North Korea to engage in new denuclearization talks, leader Kim Jong Un urged the United States to pursue ‘positive and offensive’ security measures. According to Reuters, Kim Jong Un is expected to make a speech on New Year’s Day advocating for a “new […]
On Sunday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that the country could not handle the newest wave of refugees coming into Turkey from Syria. Erdogan said Turkey “will not bear all alone the burden,” thereby warning other European countries that they will also feel the influx of as many as […]
In response to increasing protests by environmentalists, lawmakers in Queensland, Australia recently passed new legislation that instated potential prison sentences for protestors that use “dangerous devices.” According to Al Jazeera, items “such as the lock-on devices that activists use to attach themselves to each other or immovable objects” are the […]
Xinjiang governor Shohrat Zakir announced in a statement on Monday that all those held at vocational centres in the region have “graduated” and now have jobs and improved living standards. Despite these claims, many in the Xinjiang province say their family members remain detained in camps, of which the Council […]
