In July 2023 in Seoul, South Korea and the United States established the bilateral Nuclear Consultative Group (NCG) as a combined deterrence effort against the rising threat of North Korea’s dangerous war technologies. On July 18th, the same day as the establishment of NCG, the Solidarity for Peace and Reunification
The centuries-long conflict between Israel and Palestine is deeply rooted in war, ethnic violence, and ethnic cleansing. During the most recent wave of violence in the West Bank in July 2023, the Israeli military fatally shot an alleged Palestinian gunman. Deir Hidham, a motorist traveling in a town west of
Russia’s Federal Security Service (F.S.B.) said on July 10th that an attempted assassination on the head of the Republic of Crimea was averted with no casualties. Sergei Aksyonov’s life was threatened by a Russian national, allegedly recruited by Ukraine’s S.B.U. intelligence agency as an assassin, who had planted explosives in
The Biden Administration has filed a lawsuit against Texas in response to the placement of a barrier in the Rio Grande River meant to deter immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico border. According to the Office of Texas Governor Greg Abbott, the bright-orange buoys floating in the river are part of a
In protest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judicial overhaul, over 300 Israeli military doctors in reserve units have refused to serve, should the bill be pursued. The legislation proposed in January would have the ability to limit the Supreme Court’s power in balancing the Parliament, the Knesset. Protests
Recent ethnic violence in South Sudan’s West Darfur has elicited concern of crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. Violence plagued the region on April 15th when tensions between Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) chief and rival military group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander broke into war. On June 11th, particularly targeted
President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform has sparked vehement protests in Paris and across France. According to the interior ministry, some 782,000 people took to the streets on May 1st to protest against the bill signed last month, which, if passed, would raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 in
On March 27th, 2023, a fire broke out in a federally operated migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and left at least 40 dead and 29 hospitalized. An investigation has been opened, which includes six people of interest regarding the incident, including two federal agents, a state migration officer,
