Protestors take to the streets (via Nikkei) In October of 2016, King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand died after reigning for 70 years. His son, Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, took the throne…
President Donald Trump (left) and Former Vice President Joe Biden at the first presidential debate (image courtesy of CNN) On the night of October 15, President Donald Trump and…
Poster for 2020’s Mulan (via IndieWire) In late 2018, China began to experience rising criticism from the international community for its internment of certain Muslim minorities in the region of…
Photo courtesy of The Straits Times. While countries around the world have been floundering to push back against COVID-19, Singapore has been operating steadily against the disease for months. They…
Courtesy of HawaiiPublicRadio.Org On February 24, a New York jury found Harvey Weinstein guilty on one count of criminal sexual assault in the first degree and of rape in…
Photo courtesy of Skynews Singapore, in both its close geographical ties and political ties to China, is in an especially precarious position when it comes to the new deadly…
When Ursula von der Leyen, the incoming president of the European Commission, first announced her list of proposed commissioners in September, it did not include a British commissioner. She and her commission were scheduled to take office on November 1st, and the UK was scheduled to officially leave the EU on October 31st, so it didn’t seem necessary to appoint a British commissioner who would never serve.
In July of this year, Ursula von der Leyen became the first woman nominated to the presidency of the European Commission. On November 1st, she and all her newly-confirmed commissioners were to officially take office and become the new European Commission.
At three o’clock in the afternoon, on the last day of September, a whole country stood in silence. Jacques Chirac was the President of France from 1995 to 2007, and before that served as the Prime Minister of France, the Mayor of Paris, the Minister of the Interior, and in several other prominent political posts.
Photo courtesy of ABC News On March 24, Thailand had its first democratic election since the 2014 coup that put its military in power. All 500 seats in the Thai…