Author: Jacqueline Wetmore

U.S. Congressional Committee Investigating January 6th Attack Urges Supreme Court To Provide Access To Trump-Era White House Records

The bipartisan U.S. congressional committee assigned to investigate the January 6th Capitol riot is imploring the Supreme Court of the United States to deny former President Donald Trump’s request to seal certain White House records from Congress. The committee is investigating the January 6th attack to hold those at fault

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Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Man During A Raid In The West Bank

A Palestinian man was killed in the occupied West Bank by undercover Israeli security forces working in tandem with the IDF on Monday. Haaretz reports that Israeli soldiers opened fire after Palestinians in the city of Nablus threw explosives at them, which ended in 31-year-old Jamil Kiel’s death and three

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EU Claims That Belarus and Russia Orchestrated Migrant Crisis

President Gitanas Nausėda of Lithuania argued this weekend that NATO needed to respond to the integration of Belarusian and Russian armed forces, after claims that the current European border crisis was engineered by the Russian government. According to Reuters, Nausėda believes that Belarus is “testing” NATO’s unity due to the

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Mali’s Military Government Expels West African Bloc Envoy

The Economic Community of West African states, known as ECOWAS, has been given 72 hours to leave Mali after the country’s transitional government denounced the regional bloc’s actions. ECOWAS special representative, Hamidou Boly, is now considered “persona non grata” and is being forced out of the country. AP News reports

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Egyptian Human Rights Activists Imprisoned For Two Years While Awaiting Trial

Egyptian activists Alaa Abdel-Fattah, Mohamed Ibrahim, Yahia Hussein Abdel-Had, and Egyptian lawyer Mohammed el-Baker have had their future trial hearings pushed back after being in detention since September 2019. According to ABC News, the court maintains that the proceedings were postponed for defense lawyers to review trial documents. All four

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Ground Attack on Rebel Tigray Forces by Ethiopian Army

Earlier this week, Getachew Reda, spokesperson for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), announced that the Ethiopian National Army launched a ground offensive to push Tigrayan forces out of Amhara. Reuters reports that it was unable to verify that information because the Prime Minister’s office has been mostly unresponsive. Senior

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China Mounts Largest Incursion Yet Near Taiwan, Blames U.S. For Tensions

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) flew nearly 150 warplanes into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over four days last week, prompting Taiwan to scramble its defense systems. According to Reuters, China blamed the U.S. for increased tensions due to the American influence in Taiwan. Popular Mechanics reports that

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