On Sunday, April 10, 174 out of a total 342 members of Pakistan’s parliament voted in favor of a no-confidence motion which required 172 votes, leading to the removal of Prime Minister Imran Khan. Imran Khan, former cricket player, was elected in 2018 on the promise of reducing corruption and […]

Beginning on January 29, around 1,000 to 2,000 truckers participated in demonstrations in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. On January 31, the Washington Post reported that an estimated total of 8,000 people had gathered and 400 vehicles remained parked outside the Parliament building and 1,000 vehicles blocked the city streets, […]

The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to the formation of 15 independent countries, including Ukraine. In 2014, Russia illegally seized and annexed Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula bordering the Black Sea. In response, the U.S. government imposed sanctions. In 2022, tensions between Ukraine and Russia are far from […]

The “Remain in Mexico” program, officially known as Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), was first established by former President Donald Trump in January 2019. As the New York Times explains, this policy “requires certain migrants to wait in Mexico while their cases are pending.” Since then, around 70,000 asylum seekers have […]

On November 2, the Ethiopian government declared a state of emergency as rebel forces advanced to nearly 200 miles from the capital, Addis Ababa. This civil war has persisted since last November but the conflict represents deeper tensions rooted in ethnic and political division. 60 percent of the Ethiopian population […]