Poland By Hal Conte A Middle East-oriented diplomatic conference was thrown into turmoil when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made comments that were translated into English by his Twitter team as reading “the common interest of war ...
Afghanistan By Alice Hakvaag United Stages envoy Zalmay Khalilzad made a series of tweets on Saturday saying that talks between the United States and the Afghan Taliban had been “more productive than they have been in the ...
Graphic: Sana Kewalramani My mom doesn’t know how to book flights correctly. She tried to figure out how much it would cost our family of four to fly to Oslo to visit extended family, and she ...
I’ll admit that I haven’t properly sat down and watched Doctor Who in years, but there’s something new and exciting in this season: this is the first time a woman has been cast as The ...
China In Xinjiang, an autonomous region within Western China, officials have legalized “vocational training centers” for Uighur Muslims in the area. Uighur Muslims, with a language and culture similar to Turkey, make up 45% of the ...
France Last June, French police arrested two Iranians for attempting to set off explosives at a National Council of Resistance of Iran meeting in Paris, France. On October 2nd, French officials accused two senior members of ...
At any given night at my host family’s house, I am probably hearing at least three different languages. These days, when we’re all at the dinner table, I can hear English, Chinese, Japanese, and French. ...
The Oscars had a big job to do at the 2018 awards ceremony. It was plagued for two years by the #OscarsSoWhite campaign, pointing out how all of the actors and actresses nominated were white, ...
Call me crazy, but I actually really like my morning commute. Japan is known for its bullet trains, and the Tokyo Subway holds up to the same standard. It’s an hour and ten minutes longer ...
When you think of Korean music, you probably don’t think of jazzy synthpop, but that’s what OOHYO delivers in her album Girl Sense. OOHYO herself is a singer songwriter who lives in Seoul, South Korea, ...
Leader of the Social Democrats, Martin Schulz. Photo Credit: Deutsche Welle 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 ...
United States U.S. President Donald Trump, Joshua Roberts via Reuters 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 ...
CHINA By: Alex Voisine Photo Credit: People’s Daily China 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 ...
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 ...
Ah, winter break – we all worked hard this last cold month, and it’s finally time to sleep in and stay cozy. But faced with all this free time, it’s natural to feel overwhelmed trying ...
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. ...
