Andrew Serdy, University of Southampton Relations between the US and Russia have hit a fresh bump after the US Coast Guard boarded a vessel sailing in the Icelandic waters, claiming it was in breach of sanctions on Venezuela. The incident immediately sparked claims and counterclaims from the US and Russia.
Venezuelans celebrate the news of Nicolás Maduro’s capture in Puerta del Sol, Madrid, on January 3. Harry Rodgers Matt Wilde, University of Leicester and Harry Rodgers, University of Leicester When the news broke of Nicolás Maduro’s arrest following a US attack on Venezuela on January 3, que locura (“what madness”) was the line that seemed […]
Juliette McIntyre, Adelaide University and Tamsin Phillipa Paige, Deakin University The United Nations turned 80 in October last year; a venerable age for the most significant international organisation the world has ever seen.
Andrew Gawthorpe, Leiden University Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, has been apprehended and flown to the US, where the US attorney-general has announced he will face charges of drug trafficking and narco-terrorism.
Two people have died in the Netherlands in fireworks accidents, and there were scattered instances of violence as the country celebrated the New Year. In a separate incident, a fire largely destroyed a 19th-century church in Amsterdam.
One of Switzerland’s most exclusive locales, Crans-Montana is famed for its year-round sunshine, which it owes to its position on a south-facing plateau in the Rhone Valley.
Bethlehem is known globally as the birthplace of Christ. It also sits in the occupied West Bank at the heart of one of the world’s most intractable conflicts.
The U.S. government is threatening to downgrade Fiji to the lowest possible ranking on its global human trafficking index over its failure to clamp down on a powerful doomsday cult purportedly involved in “transnational organised crime,” a State Department official told OCCRP in a statement.
Thomas White, King’s College London; Andreas Baas, King’s College London, and Han Cheng, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Dust storms regularly affect northern China, including its capital, Beijing. In recent years, Chinese scientists and officials have traced the source of the dust storms to its neighbour, Mongolia.
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on whether some children born in the US have a constitutional right to citizenship.
