Over the course of the past four months, the world bore witness to an unprecedented climate disaster in Australia. Over 16 million acres burned and counting, these mega-bushfires have reminded the world of climate change’s violent global effects.
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The One Belt One Road Initiative, supposedly “the project of the century,” is President Xi Jinping’s ambitious project that would increase Chinese influence over global economics.
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Brexit has become a joke to which there is no punchline.
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On September 30, the Congress of Peru was dissolved. This decision comes after a long-standing year of Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra laying out proposals to clean up political and judicial institutions against rampant corruption among the country’s elites.
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Since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) October 2018 report, the international community responded with outrage as government officials and corporations failed to acknowledge the need for extreme environmental action.
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The United States has seen the most unfortunate climate leadership. When one president signs a climate agreement, the successor who represents the opposing party can fail to ratify the agreement or even withdraw the United States entirely.
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While collateral damage is not a new word to the Islamic State, the al-Baghdadi children are not just another two names to be added to a growing list. Their deaths illustrate the lengths that this self-described “caliphate” will go to give preeminence to ideology in an ever-evolving war kept alive by an estimated 14,000 operatives still active across Iraq and Syria.
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Weary of the abuses, feeling abandoned and in anguish, one million Chileans took their mass frustration to the streets of Santiago to protest.
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When the President announced plans to withdraw military forces from Syria, he was surprisingly met with opposition from members of both the Democratic and Republican parties.
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Trump will keep some U.S. forces in Syria to protect the oil-rich Deir ez-Zor province while abandoning the Kurds and the SDF to Turkey’s wrath. This move demonstrates that the U.S. will not likely relinquish control of the oil fields anytime soon.
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