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 […]
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 […]
Myanmar The Rohingya people are a Muslim ethnic minority group that has been living in western Myanmar for centuries. They speak their own language and comprise nearly one-third of the country’s population. Despite their long history in the country, discrimination against them is no new concept. Under British rule, the Rohingya were seen as immigrant-laborers […]
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 […]
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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 […]
You can’t talk about Italy without talking about the food. When I left the US last year to study abroad in Rome, I thought I knew Italian food. I had grown up in a town with a pretty high Italian-American population, and my mom’s favorite type of food is Italian, so we ate it pretty […]
