On November 29th, the World Health Organization recognized a new COVID-19 variant that had been discovered by South African researchers earlier that month. After the announcement, several high-income countries, including the U.S. and the U.K., implemented widespread South African travel bans, even though the Omicron variant had been recorded in
On Saturday, September 18, around 200 neo-nazis took to the streets of the historically-gay neighbourhood of Chueca in Madrid to harass gay people living there. Supposedly organized to protest the recently released plans for sustainable development in Spain, the 2030/2050 Agendas, the “protest” quickly devolved into homophobic and racist attacks,
Workers at Nabisco bakeries and manufacturing plants across the country have entered their second month of striking for normal working hours and the removal of a proposed health care plan that would harm newer hires. Although a contract between union board members and Nabisco representatives is supposedly in the works,
As of last Wednesday, representatives of the European Union have stated their support for plans made by their westernmost border countries, Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania, to erect a wall along their border with Belarus. Belarus has supposedly been sending refugees from Iraq and Afghanistan to the E.U. border and encouraging
On August 16th, at the prompting of a nationwide fuel shortage brought about by the years-long economic crisis ravaging the country, Lebanese President Michel Aoun claimed that steps are finally being taken to form a working government within the next couple of days. As of August 20th, no government has
On August 9th, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke with United States vice president Kamala Harris about issues of internal migration and Central America’s ongoing struggle with COVID-19. The U.S.-Mexico call is the first sign that Mexico is starting to implement the economic changes promised in the deal the
The UK Government has been caught up in the years-long tug-of-war between Venezuelan presidents Nicolás Maduro and Juan Guaidó as it has been taken to court to decide who has the authority to receive roughly $1bn in Venezuelan gold. Maduro, who was elected to the presidency in a rigged 2018
On July 7 a draft media bill was proposed in Poland by lawmakers from the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) that would ban non-European companies from holding more than 49% stock in Polish media. Many critics have claimed that this most recent restrictive media bill is directly targeting the
On July 1 the divided Supreme Court upheld two Republican-backed Arizona bills that limit how voters may return absentee ballots in the state. The 6-3 Republican backed court decision has curbed the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act for the second time in less than a decade. The two bills, one
