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The long list of controversies involving the Brazilian head of state caused a turmoil on the internal and international political scene. Homosexuals, women, blacks, and many other groups were on the radar of Jair Bolsonaro. He even went that far as to give praise to the dictatorship lasting from 1964 until 1985. But none of […]
Thousands of protesters huddled on the main terminal of the airport in Hong Kong as a part of their demonstrations against repression that have kept the city in the spotlight for months. The cancellation of flights and all-around chaos disrupted the functioning of one of the busiest airfields in the world. According to the Airport […]
Ebola is still wreaking havoc in subequatorial Africa. Only just a month ago, Congo announced that nearly 1,500 of its citizens had died from the Ebola outbreak since August 2018. Now, the virus has spread across the border to Uganda, as a Congolese-Ugandan family unknowingly brought the virus back to the country with them. They […]
The President of China, Xi Jinping, commended the direction North Korea has taken politically. Xi Jinping visited Pyongyang, North Korea, last Wednesday to meet President Kim Jong-un. North and South Korea had published an essay on their respective official media channels on the eve of his visit, and this was met with China’s approval. Nuclear […]
On Tuesday last week, an earthquake that was a 6.7 on the Richter Scale hit the Yamagata prefecture coastline. Thousands of households all the way to the city of Sakata lost electricity and the bullet trains ground to a halt. Around 9,000 households lost power in Niigata and Yamagata, as reported by Tohoku Electric Power […]