Photo Credit: Milenio Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico On Monday, a protest on the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM by its Spanish abbreviation), Mexico’s foremost public university, turned aggressive as counter-protesters violently attacked protesters with sharp sticks and rocks. The protest was initially organized by students of the Colegio de Ciencias y […]
Imagine…. You’ve just arrived in the United States after a months-long journey through Central America and Mexico. You left because local maras and pandillas (gangs) threatened you and your family with violence and death. Everything you own, everyone you love, is miles away. You made the journey with your two kids, hoping to give them […]
Photo Credit: Inter-Korean Summit Press Corps Last Tuesday’s summit in Singapore represents a historic and potentially transformative milestone in the relationship between North Korea and the United States. It was the first time a sitting U.S. President has met with a sitting North Korean leader. It also resulted in the United States agreeing to cease […]
“The more that you read, the more things you’ll know. The more things you know, the more places you’ll go.” Dr. Seuss. The editors at Freely Magazine have compiled a list of books written by a diverse mix of international authors that we wish to share with you. Each of these books have changed the […]
Davos, Switzerland World leaders, politicians, and leaders of the business world gathered last week in Davos, Switzerland for the annual World Economic Forum, an event that is largely seen as a global vindication of free trade and international exchange. This year, Davos’ big players were China, France, India, and the United States, who all delivered […]
GERMANY At the beginning of last week, it looked like Germany was only days away from creating a coalition that would allow its government to continue running. The coalition was to consist of the center-left Social Democrats, the conservative Christian Social Union, and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union. The Christian Social Union, which is […]
“We’ll save a lot. We don’t care,” President Trump insisted in his recent threats to pull $285 million in funding from the UN budget. While the Trump administration insists that the recent ‘null and void’ vote against the U.S.’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital did not bear weight upon the decision, the recent […]
United States U.S. President Donald Trump faced harsh criticism last week after allegedly referring to Haiti, El Salvador and a number of African countries as “shithole” countries in a meeting with Democrats and Republicans about DACA, a U.S. program that grants temporary, renewable residency to the children of undocumented immigrants. President Trump then went on […]
CHINA By: Alex Voisine The waters were calm in the East China Sea off the coast of Shanghai on Saturday, until about 8pm, when a Panama-registered oil tanker collided with a Hong Kong-registered ship carrying food from the United States. The Panama-registered oil tanker, known as SANCHI, was over 900 feet in length and was […]
Dear This Week In The World Readers, We are back from winter break and are ready and excited to bring you a new year of international current events coverage! We launched this column last year because we at Freely believe that being attuned to all that is happening around the world is of the utmost […]
Introduction We would like to wish all of our readers a happy holiday season and offer up some of our favorite dishes for your table! Enjoy! Cacio e Pepe I’m a terrible cook. Thank goodness little is expected from me by my family during the holidays. We don’t have much family in the US, and […]
Think about all of the things you own: your books, clothes, posters, electronics, anything and everything you need for four years of college. Now imagine packing all of that and more into two suitcases and flying to a new country. Think about the language you grew up with- the language that gave you directions for […]
ISRAEL/PALESTINE By: Rachel Elliott Last week, President Trump issued a statement declaring that the US would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and would also move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to the ancient city. In his statement, the president cited the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act that outlines the move that no president […]
LIBYA Trump’s constant attacks on American journalists, accusing them of being biased and propagators of “Fake News,” have become so commonplace and oftentimes so ridiculous that many simply ignore the baseless claims (which are often in the form of tweets from the President’s infamous Twitter account). But recent news in Libya has suggested that Trump’s […]
LIBYA Protests in Paris, photo credit Zakaria Abdelkafi, Getty Images A CNN report this week documented the horrifying modern slave trade in Libya, prompting protests in Paris and Libya. With hidden cameras, CNN reporters witnessed and recorded dozens of Africans being auctioned off in the capital city of Tripoli. Though it is suspected that the slave […]
SOMALIA Another Bomb Attack Hits Mogadishu At least 23 people were killed and more than 30 people were injured on Saturday in a double car bombing in Mogadishu, the Somali capital. This occurred just two weeks after a truck bombing, one of the deadliest bomb attacks in the country’s history, claimed the lives of 358 […]
ZIMBABWE Critics Condemn Robert Mugabe’s WHO Appointment The appointment of Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe as a World Health Organization Goodwill Ambassador Of Non-communicable Diseases across Africa has attracted criticism from several organizations including campaign groups and the opposition in Zimbabwe. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the first African to head the WHO, had commended Zimbabwe’s dedication […]
I. The Culture of “The Enemy” [dropcap size=small]A[/dropcap]nyone who’s ever played a competitive sport has likely experienced an acute onset of resentment for the opposing team. You and your teammates are the self-proclaimed heroes, and on the opposite side of the field, rink, or arena is the enemy, “the other,” the object of destruction. It […]
KENYA Protesting has been banned in the Kenyan cities of Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu. The ban follows weeks of protests that broke out after President Uhuru Kenyatta was announced the winner of the August 8 elections. Though the vote was annulled last month by Kenya’s supreme court, after findings of the election commission’s failure to […]
RUSSIA Following a series of accusations against Russia for meddling in the U.S. elections and contributing to the election of Donald Trump through the dissemination of falsified news stories, in September, lawmakers in the United States mandated that a Russian news network, called RT, must register with the U.S. government as a foreign agent. RT, […]
