On September 12th, Indonesia and Norway agreed to start a new partnership in an effort to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation. Indonesia’s environment minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar and her Norwegian counterpart Espen Barth Eide signed a memorandum of understanding in Jakarta on the new agreement. According to Eide, Norway would
On September 5th, 2022, the office of Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe appointed a committee to facilitate and optimize the repatriation of Sri Lankan refugees who fled to India during the 26-year-long Sri Lankan civil war from 1983-2009. The committee has been appointed by President Wickremesinghe’s Secretary, Saman Ekanayake, and
On Monday, August 15th, at the Nordic Summit in Oslo, Norway, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that Germany would not support several fellow European countries that have called for a European Union (EU)-wide move to prohibit issuing tourist visas to Russian citizens. The debate over issuing or restricting EU visa
On August 1st, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of disgraced Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr., ruled out the Philippines’ rejoining the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.), on the basis that the court’s prosecutorial plans are to resume an investigation into the previous government’s “war on drugs.” This decision remains in line
On August 29th, 2022, an Israeli satellite company, ImageSat International (ISI), reported that Russia had shipped a battery of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles from Syria to a Russian port near Crimea in an apparent attempt to bolster its air defenses in the ongoing war with Ukraine. Back in April 2022, ISI
On Monday July 11th, the grand chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Turkey had violated the European Convention on Human Rights by not complying with the ruling that demanded the release of philanthropist Osman Kavala. The court argued that Kavala’s detention had been carried out
On Monday, July 4th, 2022 the British government proposed a new law that would require social media companies to proactively tackle disinformation posted by foreign states. The law would aim to block fake accounts on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter that are set up on behalf of
On Monday, July 25th, following several months of legal negotiation, South Africa formally asked the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to extradite brothers Rajesh and Atul Gupta who are accused of corruption in a case involving former South African President Jacob Zuma. The two countries initially ratified an extradition treaty
On Monday, June 20th, the chairman of DAL Group, a private Sudanese conglomerate and the largest private company in the country, revealed that he and the United Arab Emirates will build a new Red Sea port in Sudan as part of a $6 billion investment project. Osama Daoud Abdellatif, DAL
On Monday, 18 July 2022, the Israeli military intercepted a small drone that crossed into Israel’s airspace from southern Lebanon. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stated that its air defense unit monitored the drone throughout the duration of its flight, and presumes that it was launched by the armed
