On Monday, October 30th, 2023, following an anti-Semitic riot at a Dagestan airport, the Kremlin and Russian leaders placed blame for the event on Ukraine as well as the West, including the United States. The riot consisted of hundreds of people entering Makhachkala airport in Dagestan, a majority Muslim-Russian region,
In October 2023, the European Union announced a reversal of a previous immediate suspension of development aid for Palestinian authorities. As a part of this reversal, the EU clarified that it would instead carefully review the allocation of aid to Palestine as a reaction to the attacks on Israel by
An investigation the United Nations conducted regarding human rights abuses in Ethiopia has officially ended, despite expert reports of continuing abuses. The International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia investigation (I.C.H.R.E.E.) was launched in late 2021, one year into Ethiopia’s civil Tigray War, and continued past the war’s end
In September 2023, 30 planned explosions aimed at Tehran, the capital city of Iran, were thwarted, saving numerous lives and preventing mass chaos. Iran’s government classified these planned attacks as the responsibility of terrorist organizations, subsequently arresting 28 individuals in connection to them. The arrests were conducted through several raids
In September 2023, Pakistan condemned the Afghan Taliban administration for building illegal border structures and engaging in violence, forcing Pakistan to close the main border with Afghanistan. Afghanistan is accused of actively building an unlawful structure on its neighbour’s territory, leading the militaries on both sides to fire at each
On October 24th, tens of thousands of women in Iceland refused to go to work – including Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir. This walkout comes as a result of protests highlighting the gender pay gap and gender-based violence against women in the nation and is the first time a women’s strike
Hundreds of thousands of people who fled to escape civil war in South Sudan years ago are now fleeing Sudan – for the same reason. This April, a war between existing military rival factions has displaced an estimated 5.2 million people as of September, according to the United Nations’ refugee
In September 2023, India became the fourth country ever to land on the moon and the first to explore its Southern Pole. In a historic moment, India successfully landed on the previously unexplored south pole of the moon with its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, helping the nation cement its claim as a
