Guatemala By Alice Hakvaag A volcano in Guatemala surprised hundreds with a large eruption last Sunday, leaving little time for nearby villages to evacuate. The eruption sent tons of ash over 33,000 feet into the sky, before ...

Mexico By: Alex Voisine Photo Credit: Univision The second presidential debate took place in Tijuana, Mexico on Monday, indicating even further the tensions and high risks that will come with the Mexico’s July 1 elections. The focus during ...

North Korea Jung Yeon-je AFP/Getty Images via NPR By: Alex Voisine South Korea President Moon Jae-In and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met last Friday at a historic summit in Panmunjom, South Korea, marking the first time ...

Syria By: Alex Voisine Photo Credit: Reuters/Brendan McDermid On Saturday, the Syrian-American Medical Society reported over 500 admissions of patients suffering from what appears to have been the effects of a chemical attack by the Syrian government. Those ...

Catalonia By: Alex Voisine Photo Credit: AP/O. Matthys via DW Carles Puidgemont, the former president of Catalonia and the foremost leader in the movement towards secession from Spain, was arrested by German authorities on Sunday as he was ...

Russia By Rachel Elliott Photo Credit: Yuri Kadobnov, AP On Sunday, Russian President Vladmir Putin won the presidential election, granting him six more years in office. The president received three-quarters of the votes in his landslide victory. ...

North Korea By Rachel Elliott Last week, President Trump revealed that the he would meet with North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un in May to discuss denuclearization. The meeting will mark the first time any sitting American president ...

Syria By: Alex Voisine News out of Syria throughout the course of the past week has been painfully grim; over 500 people have died following a bombing campaign by the Syrian government in the Damascus suburb of ...

Brazil By Rachel Elliott While Carnival is a time of celebration and dance, this year, Brazilians used the parade to tackle injustice, corruption, and inequality. The festivities kicked off with a harsh criticism of President Michel Temer, ...

RUSSIA By Rachel Elliott Photo Credit: Natalya Dmitrak via Telegraph UK A plane carrying 71 people crashed just outside of Moscow on Sunday morning. No passengers or crew survived. The plane had been en route to the southern ...

Syria By: Alex Voisine On Tuesday, Israeli warplanes fired missiles at a Syrian military outpost near the capital city of Damascus. Though a statement by the Syrian military claimed that the Syrian defense system blocked most of ...

Davos, Switzerland Photo Credit: Denis Balibouse, Reuters, via NBC News 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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...