Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that the Taliban “need to end the occupation of their brothers’ soil and show the world that peace is prevailing in Afghanistan right away.” According to the BBC, since the United States began withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban have made advances across the
Five years after her death, justice has finally been served for Indigenous environmental activist Berta Cáceres after a Honduran court found Roberto David Castillo guilty of being a collaborator in her murder. Castillo, who was the head of Desarrollos Energeticos (DESA), a construction firm in charge of the $50 million
Lithuania plans to open a new camp for illegal migrants coming from Belarus. According to a Reuters report, the camp would house 500 migrants at the site of an old school building in Dieveniskes, a town located along the Belarusian-Lithuanian border. The camp would relieve some stress off of Lithuania,
On June 27th, two explosions shook the city of Beni, located in the North Kivu province in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Reuters reported that the first blast took place at a local church and injured two people. Hours later, the second blast occurred at
The U.S. and Mexico signed an agreement in June to encourage economic development in Central America to combat issues surrounding migration between the two countries. The deal was signed with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as part of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ first international trip since taking office,
The United States faces backlash from North Korea after lifting its guidelines that previously limited South Korea’s ballistic missile range. The decision comes as part of last month’s summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Moon Jae-in to reaffirm diplomatic ties between their two countries. The guidelines,
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez have agreed to continue strengthening ties between their two countries during this year’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit in Brussels. A press release from the British Prime Minister’s office stated that Johnson and Sánchez “discussed their shared commitment
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said that Israel may have committed “war crimes” during its 11-day bombardment of Gaza in May. In her opening address to the UN Human Rights Council special session last Thursday, Bachelet condemned the high number of civilian fatalities and large-scale destruction of
This past week, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir called to dissolve the country’s parliament, moving forward to reorganize a new one. The decision comes as part of a 2018 peace deal between President Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar, who were on opposing sides of the South Sudanese Civil War.
