Hundreds of protestors storm Iraq’s government buildings for the second time in one week. The troubled nation’s governing bodies sit in a fortified ‘Green Zone.’ A spattering of foreign embassies are located nearby. The initially tense atmosphere has abated and protestors can even be seen in conversation with security personnel.
President Joe Biden rounded off a less-than-convincing tour of the Middle East with a high-stakes visit to Saudi Arabia. This was shortly after having made little diplomatic headway in Israel and the West Bank – Israeli missiles struck a Gaza arms factory hours after the president had left the occupied
The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on 8 July 2022, in the midst of national elections, set alight the passions of an entire country. He was murdered by a 41 year old man with a homemade shotgun in the ancient capital of Nara, near Osaka, for reasons
Europe is witnessing a sustained period of inflation that is likely to negatively impact most European households. Rises in the costs of goods and services for June, as calculated by Eurostat, the statistics-gathering arm of the E.U., have surpassed observers’ expectations as consumer prices jump 8.6% from the same time
In an unprecedented visit to Kyiv on June 16th, the leaders of France, Italy, Germany, and Romania expressed, to the sound of air sirens, a full-blooded support for the Ukrainian cause. This was the first time Germany, Italy, and France stated their approval of Ukraine’s bid for E.U. candidacy, and
On Wednesday, the eighth of June 2022, Algeria announced it was suspending a decades-long ‘friendship treaty’ with Spain. The cooling of relations between the two countries, separated by only 150 kilometers of the Mediterranean sea, has major ramifications for peace and stability in the region of Western Sahara, a country
Gambians and international observers alike held their breath this Wednesday (May 25th) as President Adama Barrow made clear his position on the crimes against humanity carried out by his predecessor, Yahya Jammeh. A country of 1.8 million people on the west coast of Africa and largely surrounded by Senegal, the
