On Sunday November 3, it was confirmed to The Associated Press (AP) by the US State Department that an Iranian-American journalist, Reza Valizadeh, has been detained in Iran for months. The imprisonment of Valizadeh came as Iran marked the 45th anniversary of the US embassy takeover and hostage crisis. Valizadeh’s
European Union leaders demonstrated their commitment to tightening borders and shifting towards harsher policies regarding migrants and asylum seekers on October 17 in Brussels during a summit dominated by discussions of migration. The summit comes following a recent surge of the far right in the EU parliamentary elections this June
Hundreds of Rohingya people have fled from Myanmar’s Rakhine State into Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, amid the escalation of fighting between Myanmar’s ruling military junta and the opposition militia Arakan Army. Both groups have targeted the Rohingya, a minority ethnic group residing primarily in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, that has faced decades
The far-right “Patriots for Europe” alliance created by Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has become the third-largest group in the European Parliament. Orbán presented the alliance of his Fidesz party with the Austrian Freedom Party and the Czech ANO party on June 30 in Vienna, the day before Hungary took
On Tuesday, November 7th, 2023, Russia’s Foreign Ministry warned that provocative remarks made by Israeli officials regarding the use of nuclear weapons in Gaza prompted questions regarding Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons. In a radio interview, far-right Heritage Minister Amihay Eliyahu responded to the question of launching possible nuclear strikes
North Korea has been continuing to fly balloons filled with trash over the border into South Korea since the end of May. As of mid-June, North Korea has sent more than 1,000 balloons filled with trash and manure into South Korea, a move which Seoul previously described as “base and
On May 3, 2024, the Canadian police announced that three Indian nationals had been arrested for their involvement in the June killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian citizen and Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia. Nijjar was shot dead by masked gunmen outside of a Sikh gurdwara in Surrey,
On March 31, an order fortifying maritime security in the Philippines following a mounting number of confrontations with China in the disputed area of the South China Sea was made public. Whilst China was not mentioned, the order followed an incident the previous week, when China used water cannons
On March 1, a wiretap recording of senior German military officials discussing the supply of weapons to Ukraine was released on Russian social media. The talks included mentions of the possibility of supplying German-made Taurus cruise missiles to Kyiv, as requested by Ukraine, as well as the hypothetical strikes against
On Saturday, February 3, the United States launched airstrikes on Iraq and Syria, reportedly killing nearly 40 people. The strikes were launched against over 85 targets linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) and IRGC-backed militias in retaliation for a drone attack in Jordan, which killed three American soldiers. The United
On October 2nd, a group of 67 Indigenous women from Greenland filed a complaint with the Danish government regarding a campaign of involuntary birth control to restrict Greenland’s Indigenous population in the 1960s and 70s. The complainants are seeking 300,000 kroner ($58,478 CAD) each in compensation for being fitted with
On December 28, 2023, Venezuela ordered its armed forces to hold military drills after the United Kingdom sent HMS Trent, a warship, to Guyana. The ship had initially been deployed in order to search for drug smugglers in the Caribbean, but the UK confirmed that the ship would take
Agnes Chow, one of Hong Kong’s most well-known pro-democracy activists, has said that she will not return to Hong Kong from Canada, where she is studying. Chow was arrested under a national security law in 2020, imposed by Beijing following massive anti-government protests in 2019. Chow was a central figure
Four civilians were killed after rival demonstrations in the Northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on September 2nd. The protests took place as a reaction to media reports that Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani would turn over the Iraqi military’s Joint Operations Command headquarters in Kirkuk over to the Kurdistan Democratic
Despite U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s attempts to ease U.S.-China tensions during her recent four-day trip to China, anti-China sentiments in the United States may have undermined Yellen’s attempts at smoothing relations. Yellen met with China’s number two leaders, Premier Li Qiang and Vice Premier He Lifeng, during her visit
On July 13th, Southeast Asia’s foreign ministers condemned the ongoing conflict and human rights abuses in Myanmar – two of the central issues that dominated that week’s talks in Indonesia, the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (A.S.E.A.N.). The human rights abuses Myanmar’s military junta has been
On June 19th, imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny urged Russians to join a new anti-war campaign against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Since his arrest in January 2021 upon returning to Moscow following his recuperation in Germany from nerve agent poisoning, which he blamed on the Kremlin, Navalny has been
On Monday, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un pledged to “hold hands” with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a message released by state media KCNA to mark Russia’s National Day. Kim vowed “full support and solidarity” with Russia and defended Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, saying, “justice is sure to win
