Focus on Modern Piracy: Gulf of Guinea
With at least nine vessels attacked and 89 crew hijacked for ransom at the end of 2019, the Gulf of Guinea is now considered one of the most dangerous routes for international shipping.
Read MoreWith at least nine vessels attacked and 89 crew hijacked for ransom at the end of 2019, the Gulf of Guinea is now considered one of the most dangerous routes for international shipping.
Read MoreSoutheast Asia, despite common misconceptions, is actually the world’s most active piracy zone. The UN declared the waters of Southeast Asia to be “the most dangerous in the world.”
Read MoreIn the years since computer scientist Tim-Burners Lee created the “World Wide Web” in 1990, online piracy has been on the rise, ranging from the simple film or music piracy that people around the world regularly indulge in, to data piracy by powerful states collecting massive caches of documents, emails, and analytics data from their rivals.
Read MoreWith just one of these cargo ships, pirates can make millions worth of dollars than with conventional jobs. With such financial motivation, the path to piracy is easier as ever.
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Read MoreThe wait is over for members of the LGBT community in Switzerland, where parliament has recently passed a bill to protect members of the community from discrimination.
Read MoreUnited States diplomat, Tibor P. Nagy, called upon the countries in the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in an effort to apply pressure on the two major peace partners in South Sudan to proceed with the formation of a government of national unity.
Read MoreOn April 5, warplanes attacked Idlib, a rebel-held region in North-West Syria, killing ten people. 24 people were wounded from the bombing, and several others died while attempting to flee.
Read MoreRecent developments in the ongoing U.S.-Iran situation have seen protesters in Iraq flood the streets by the masses, with hundreds of thousands marching through the streets of Baghdad protesting the U.S. troop presence in Iraq.
Read MoreAs of January 31st, 2020, the nearly four years of waiting finally ended: the UK officially left the EU, entering a transition period that will last until December 2020.
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