Reading Time: 4 minutesIn addition to Tehran, Beijing is experiencing one of the largest grassroots protests in the People’s Republic’s history. Like Iran, the Chinese protests shortly followed China’s authoritarian approach to stamp out the COVID-19 virus. A so-called “zero-COVID”…
Reading Time: 5 minutes2022 has seen calls have increased from governments and citizens worldwide to transition to cleaner alternative energy sources, driven by consumer demands and high fossil fuel prices. Growing human rights and supply chain concerns may stymie those…
Reading Time: 4 minutesOn 16 September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, was pronounced dead in a hospital in Tehran due to a skull fracture she obtained while in police custody. Amini had been arrested by the Guidance Patrol,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesOn 1 January 2023, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (more commonly known as Lula) is scheduled to return to the office of the Presidency in Brazil, more than a decade after he left the office in 2010.…
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt a meeting in Brussels held on 30 May 2022, leaders of the European Union (EU) agreed to cut 90 percent of Russian oil imports to the EU by the end of this year. The aim is…