China has reportedly taken measures to limit the flow on the Mekong River, resulting in low water levels in neighboring countries. This includes Cambodia and Thailand, which have suffered from a severe drought during the dry season of 2019-2020...

The European Union’s Executive Vice-President for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age, Margrethe Vestager, endorsed member countries’ purchases of stakes in companies to counter the threat of Chinese takeovers. The endorsement comes at a critical time for the EU as it ...

EU finance ministers have approved a plan to spend €540 billion on new measures to address economic constraints amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which is projected to shrink Eurozone output by up to 10% in 2020...

In early April 2020, the United States surpassed 1,900 deaths in a single day attributed to the coronavirus (COVID-19) setting a new global record. Health experts say that this figure is even higher given that many deaths recorded under alternate afflictions, such as pneumonia, likely resulted from the coronavirus...

The International Labor Organization (ILO) has projected that the coronavirus (COVID-19) will result in a 6.7% global loss in working hours during the second quarter of 2020. This is equivalent to 195 million full-time workers, far exceeding the losses of the 2008 financial crisis...

For the first time in history, the US government has labeled a white supremacist group as a terrorist organization. On April 6, 2020, The US State Department listed the Russian-based ultranationalist group Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) as a terrorist organization along with ...

Governments and aid organizations worldwide are struggling to acquire scarce medical supplies and protective equipment. The surge in demand has caused governments to compete with one another for access to critical supplies...

At a video conference on April 4, 2020, NATO foreign ministers welcomed North Macedonia as the newest member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). NATO allies had previously signed North Macedonia’s Accession Protocol in ...

On April 1, 2020 the state-owned Saudi Aramco reportedly increased crude oil output to a record capacity of 12 million barrels per day despite significantly reduced demand and pressure from the United States. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the subsequent ...

Mining industry giant Rio Tinto has been found responsible for human rights violations in Papua New Guinea. A report by the Human Rights Law Center revealed that a mine on the island of Bougainville, once operated by Rio Tinto subsidiary Bougainville Copper Limited, had resulted in ...