The Netherlands has announced its intention to buy out hundreds of farms which are located near nature reserves. This move is to help meet the country’s target of cutting its nitrogen emissions in half by 2030, which is in accordance with EU conservation rules. The move comes on the back[Read More…]

On Tuesday, Singapore’s government repealed their gay sex ban. The law, which is formally called Section 377A, penalized sex between men with a maximum of two years in prison. On the same day, Singapore’s government also amended their constitution to block any future court challenges that in other countries have[Read More…]

New Delhi, which is the capital city of India, has found itself engulfed in smog as its air pollution has reached a “severe” level. Concentrations of fine particles in the air were recorded at approximately three times above the acceptable limits as the arrival of winter has caused the city’s[Read More…]

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Monday that it will be renaming monkeypox to “mpox” due to concerns of racist connotations. The WHO said that the decision came after a “series of consultations” with global experts, and that “mpox” was ultimately decided to be the best name. The WHO[Read More…]

According to a new report titled “Persecuted and Forgotten,” the persecution of Christians is increasing in at least 18 countries. The report was released on Nov. 16 by Catholic group Aid to the Church In Need. The report investigated possible “human rights violations” in 24 countries where the persecution of[Read More…]

African nation Ghana has said that it plans to implement a new policy where it will purchase its oil with gold as opposed to US dollar reserves, Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia confirmed on his Facebook on Thursday. According to Reuters, the aim of this move is to tackle reducing foreign currency[Read More…]

Vladimir Makei, who was Belarus’s Foreign Minister and an ally of their President Alexander Lukashenko, has died aged 64. Makei wasn’t known to have any serious health conditions and authorities in Belarus have not yet confirmed his cause of death. Makei also held other positions within the government before becoming[Read More…]

The United States Treasury announced on Saturday that it has reached an agreement between the party of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and the opposition party, and has granted authorization to Chevron to expand its oil pumping activities within Venezuela. Part of an effort to lift certain sanctions as long as[Read More…]

The Malawi government announced on Saturday that the country’s Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima has been arrested and formally accused of corruption after a months-long investigation. “On 25th November, 2022, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested Dr. Saulos Klaus Chilima… on allegation that between March 2021 and October 2021, he received[Read More…]

Victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation have filed a lawsuit against megabanks JP Morgan Chase and Deutche Bank, alleging the banks profited from and enabled Epstein’s crimes. Two anonymous plaintiffs in two separate suits accuse the banks of knowingly helping facilitate Epstein’s international sex trafficking operation as well as[Read More…]