Category: World

Skirmishes grow in Myanmar as Aung San’s trial begins next week
- By Alaina
- . June 7, 2021
Skirmishes between Myanmar’s Junta and villagers armed with crossbows and catapults in the Ayeyarwady river delta region has resulted in about 20 people being killed.

Facebook bans Trump from its platform for 2 years
- By Alaina
- . June 6, 2021
Facebook Inc has banned former US President Donald Trump from its platforms, Instagram and Facebook, for a period of two years. Facebook’s move is likely

Time up for Netanyahu as Lapid announces victory
- By Alaina
- . June 3, 2021
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid, in a bid to end Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year rule, has officially informed the President about an agreement with

Belarusian opposition leader alleges government of torturing detained journalist
- By Alaina
- . June 1, 2021
Belarus’s opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, on Monday, claimed that detained journalist Roman Protasevich had been “tortured” in custody. She negated claims of a lawyer who

Time to be cautious: 88 politicians have been killed in Mexico since September 2020
- By Alaina
- . May 31, 2021
Political violence has been surging more than ever. After the recent shooting of Alma Barragan, a mayoral candidate in Mexico, who was shot dead in

COVID-19: India’s devastating second wave finally going down
- By Alaina
- . May 30, 2021
The devastating wave of coronavirus in India seems to be going down finally as Delhi has reportedly begun considering easing restrictions systematically. India recorded 2,11,298

US tells Russia it will not rejoin key arms control deal
- By Alaina
- . May 29, 2021
Recently, the US official told Russia that they will not rejoin them in an arms control deal that permits unarmed aerial flights over dozens of

Joe Biden orders US intelligence to report on COVID-19 origins in 90 days
- By Alaina
- . May 27, 2021
President Joe Biden has asked the US intelligence agencies to amplify their efforts to find the origins of the COVID-19 virus and submit a report

Aung San Suu Kyi appears in court for the first time since the coup
- By Alaina
- . May 26, 2021
A global philanthropist and Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in person at a court hearing on May 24 for the first time

Civil, military rift surges in Bali as military detains President & PM
- By Alaina
- . May 25, 2021
Mali’s military has taken the country’s president and prime minister into custody, deepening political chaos and heightening fears of yet another coup in the sub-Saharan