Iranian Officials Cause Confusion Over Morality Police
Confusion broke out Friday as a senior Iranian official declared that Iran’s infamous morality police force had been disbanded, reports The New York Times.
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December 2022
Salvadoran Army Closes Off City of Soyapango in Alleged Gang Drive
News, the city is currently surrounded by 10,000 troops as Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele ordered a crackdown on gang activity following 62 gang-related murders on March 26, 2022. The plan aims to reduce the homicide rate in El Salvador to less than two per day, says Reuters.
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Belgian Courts Begin Trying 2016 Terror Attacks Perpetrators
Belgium’s largest-ever criminal trial began December 5 as the country seeks to bring to justice the perpetrators of the March 22, 2016, Brussels suicide bombings, NPR reports.
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Russia Rejects EU Gas Price Caps as Europe Prepares for Winter
Russia is strategically using oil as a means of countering the Western cap, by refusing to sell oil to the countries that proposed the price cap. Russia’s permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, recently tweeted “From this year, Europe will live without Russian oil,” says CBS News.
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