Tara Sonenshine, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice in Public Diplomacy, Tufts University The U.S. has dispatched eight Army and Navy vessels from Virginia to build a temporary pier off the coast of the Gaza Strip. The aim of this work: to supply…
Michael Brenner, Professor of Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig Maximilian University and Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies, American University Just when you think nothing can surprise you anymore in Israeli politics, someone always comes along with a new twist.…
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Ahmet T. Kuru, Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University I…
Alessandro Poletto, Lecturer in East Asian Religions, Arts & Sciences at Washington…
The world’s first atomic bombing on Hiroshima marked its 76th year on Friday, as global leaders were pushed by a Japanese city mayor to come together to get rid of the nuclear…
With the record-shattering increase in COVID-19 cases as Tokyo hosts the Olympics, Japan will further the coronavirus state of emergency in the capital city to nearby areas, including the western city of…
A UN migration official confirmed that a boat with migrants on board off Libya met a sea mishap, leaving around 57 passengers assumed dead. According to International Organization for Migration spokesperson Safa…
Another family has shed a member to COVID-19 in a residential street in Bogor, Indonesia. A young woman wails as she sits beside her father’s body, crying “Wake up, please don’t sleep,”…
Tamanisha John, Florida International University Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in the early morning hours of July 7, 2021, in a brazen attack on his private home outside Port-au-Prince, the capital.…
Patrick D Bellegarde-Smith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Two men are vying to control Haiti after President Jovenel Moïse’s July 7 assassination, creating more turmoil for a nation in crisis. Here, scholar Patrick Bellegarde-Smith,…
Germany and Belgium were hit by terrible flooding leaving more than 60 people dead and dozens unaccounted for as cars were washed away and houses crashed down. Nine residents of an aided…
Friction arose between protesters and security officers in South Africa on Tuesday, leaving 72 persons dead as looters, frustrated by poverty, scramble to get into shopping malls. “The total number of people…
The suspects in the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, consisting of Colombians and Haitian Americans, said that they intended to arrest and not assassinate the victim, according to the Miami Herald…
Catesby Holmes, The Conversation The assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse risks destabilizing the Caribbean country, which was already in crisis over alarmingly high violence and Moïse’s increasingly undemocratic behavior. Here’s some…
