Illustration credit: Peter Naktin Ukraine By Alice Hakvaag Volodymyr Zelensky, most well known for being a Ukrainian comedian who portrayed incumbent president Petro Poroshenko, has just won Ukraine’s presidential election. Zelensky won 73% of the ...
Illustration credit: Peter Naktin Italy By Hal Conte Julius Caesar Mussolini, great-grandson of the infamous Italian dictator and founder of fascism Benito Mussolini, is running for election to the European Parliament. He’s running as a ...
Illustration credit: Peter Naktin Haiti By Alice Hakvaag This year marks the sixth year for the annual Haiti Fashion Week, something that has been making waves in fashion communities around the world. Michel Chataigne, a ...
Illustration credit: Peter Naktin Mexico By Hal Conte Mexican President Andrés López Obrador slammed Spain and the Catholic Church for their role in colonizing the Latin American continent and committing genocide against the indigenous population. ...
Illustration Credit: Peter Naktin Russia By Hal Conte Russian President Vladimir Putin has outlawed “fake news” within Russia with the signing of a bill that gives those who spread “blatant disrespect” for the government fines ...
Illustration credit: Peter Naktin Algeria By Hal Conte A longstanding nationwide protest campaign has succeeded in forcing 82-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to decline a fifth term after 20 years at the helm of the African ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Iran By Alice Hakvaag 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 hospitalized. ...
France By Alice Hakvaag Protests have broken out across France, with 280,000 people criticizing President Emmanuel Macron and rising fuel prices. Macron’s government raised the prices of fuel in an effort to encourage cleaner cars, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
