Thailand By Hal Conte Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Varnavadi, the older sister of King Maha Vajiralongkorn, was announced as a candidate for premier of Thailand two weeks ago. Prayuth Chan-ocha, a general and de facto leader of ...

Hungary By Hal Conte New school textbooks sponsored by the nationalist government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban have stirred controversy for promoting anti-immigrant themes. The textbooks include quotes by Orban stating that, “we consider it a ...

Honduras Bianca Taipe Following the first anniversary of President Juan Orlando Hernández’s inauguration, anti-government protests in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, raided the streets. During the 2017 election, Hernández’s opposer, former President, Manuel Zelaya accused Mr. Hernández of electoral ...

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 ...

Iran By Alice Hakvaag Source: Reuters/Tasnim News Agency Last Sunday a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit Iran in the Kermanshah province. Over 700 people are reported injured, with one reported related death. Out of those 700, 18 had to be ...

India By Hal Conte Rural Indians are organizing a massive mobilization of around 1 million people to highlight the dire state of affairs for small farmers in the country, who represent more than one out of every ...

Ethiopia By Alice Hakvaag Last Thursday Ethiopia elected the country’s first female head of the federal supreme court. Meaza Ashenafi has worked as a human rights lawyer, served on the UN Economic Commission for Africa, and founded ...

Europe/Japan By Alice Hakvaag BepiColombo, a joint space mission between Europe and Japan’s space agencies, blasted off last week on a mission to Mercury. The two probes are going to observe the planet’s iron core, which is ...

Australia By Alice Hakvaag Scott Morrison, Australia’s Prime Minister, recently expressed support of a bill that “no student of a non-state school should be expelled on the basis of their sexuality.” Currently, some states allow schools 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 ...

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 ...