An earthquake struck killing about 50,000 people across both Turkey and Syria on February 6th. Following the earthquake, nearly 200 people have been arrested for alleged poor building construction, Turkey’s Justice Ministry said. The earthquake caused the full collapse or serious damage of buildings, and the ministry said that 626 […]
According to UN estimates, the world population hit the 8 billion mark last week as it took only twelve years to add a billion people to the growing population. After the period of rapid growth in the 20th century, the population growth is slowing down, and earth’s population will begin […]
“Today, it’s Pakistan. Tomorrow, it could be your country,” UN chief. According to CNN, more than 33 million people have been affected by flash floods in Pakistan, killing 1500 people so far. One third of Pakistan is underwater due to unprecedented torrential monsoon rains, causing upward of $20 billion damages […]
On September 23rd, Hurricane Fiona was strengthening as it headed towards Canada’s Atlantic Coast. Five days earlier, the category four hurricane, made landfall on the island of Puerto Rico. According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center, Fiona hit about 15 miles (25 kilometers) south-southeast of Mayaguez with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (140 […]
The Russian government and suppression or distortion of information is not something new, but with the new war with Ukraine, Putin is taking this disinformation into an all-new level. The Russian government has begun completely misinforming and suppressing the Russian public, by disconnecting them from different forms of social media, […]
On November 7, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua was re-elected for a fifth term as president in an election that was fraught with corruption, intimidation and fraud. President Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murrilo will now lead the Central American nation for another five years despite mass protests calling […]
In the last weeks of March, thousands of Haitians took to the streets protesting against President Jovenel Moise who is currently facing backlash for refusing to move into a more transitional government. The protesters’ main dispute is over the president’s term limit: Moise has served only four years of the […]
France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy has just been recently convicted of corruption. On March 1st, a Paris court found former president Nicolas Sarkozy who served from 2007 to 2012 convicted for receiving information from a senior magistrate in 2014. The information the former president was getting tipped about was regarding […]
Even though president-elect Joe Biden is a longtime supporter of Israel, he has expressed aims to restore support for Palestinians that was cut under the Trump administration. So, what does this mean for Palestinians and should people have faith that Biden will reverse any of Trump’s Israeli policies? These policies […]
Iran is in need of economic relief, yet president-elect Joe Biden still needs to decide how to reverse the sanctions on Iran if he plans on rejoining the nuclear deal. Iran also has a part to play before the elections in June. Any attempt will have to be made quickly […]
