Current Event & Continent Updates

May 8, 20222 min read

Ghost Guns

May 08, 2022 | Written by - Sophia Casa '23 As recent weeks of mass shootings have highlighted, guns undoubtedly have a negative impact...

May 8, 20222 min read

Elon Musk's Passionate Love Story with the First Amendment

May 08, 2022 | Written by Reema Gupta '22 As of April 28th, 2022, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, now owns Twitter. Musk himself has...

May 8, 20222 min read

Threat of a Global Famine

May 08, 2022 | Written by Reema Gupta '22 On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-fledged invasion of Ukraine in order to gain...

Nov 22, 20194 min read

Continent Update - Middle East and North Africa

November 20, 2019 | Written By - Ria Raj '21 The past few months have presented a massive surge in protests globally. The current...

Nov 22, 20192 min read

Continent Update - Central Asia

November 20, 2019 | Written By - Jane Jusko '21 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the now-former leader of the Islamic State, was killed in a raid...

Nov 22, 20193 min read

Continent Update - Eastern and Southern Africa

November 20, 2019 | Written By - Carrie Bifulco '21 Mozambique’s government plans to appeal a South African court’s decision to renounce...

Nov 22, 20192 min read

Continent Update - East and South Asia

November 20, 2019 | Written by - Anonymous New and horrific details have emerged about the labor camps in Xinjiang. A Kazakh woman, named...

Nov 22, 20192 min read

Continent Update - Eastern Europe

November 20, 2019 | Written by - Eleanor Pompa '23 In Ukraine, troops from both Ukraine and Russian backed separatists are retreating...

Nov 22, 20192 min read

Continent Update - North America

November 20, 2019 | Written By - Caitlin Ludwig '23 On Saturday, October 26, 2019, The United States military raided and evacuated a...

Nov 22, 20192 min read

Continent Update - Oceania

November 20, 2019 | Written By - Bridget O'Shea '20 After 3 years of negotiations between the New Zealand and Chinese governments,...

Nov 22, 20194 min read

Continent Update - South and Central America

November 20, 2019 | Written By - Maeve Cassidy '22 Within the last few weeks, demonstrations have erupted in the capital city, Santiago,...

Nov 22, 20192 min read

Continent Update - Southeast Asia

November 20, 2019 | Written By - Caroline Davies '22 Singapore is a modern day economic powerhouse, studded with grand towers and a...

Nov 22, 20192 min read

Continent Update - Western and Central Africa

November 20, 2019 | Written by - Lauren Izanec '22 Despite efforts to eliminate AIDS in Western and Central Africa by 2030, the number of...

Nov 22, 20192 min read

Continent Update - Western Europe

November 20, 2019 | Written By - Sophia Casa '23 On October 30th, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Parliament decided that citizens would...

Oct 24, 20183 min read

Continent Update - Europe

October 24th, 2018 Written by - Bridget O'Shea '20 In Germany, the killing of a man by two immigrants in the town of Chemnitz resulted in...

Oct 24, 20182 min read

Continent Update - Asia Pacific

October 24th, 2018 Written by - Mary Mitchell '20 Asia Pacific: Continent Update North and South Korea Push to End Korean War: The Korean...

Oct 24, 20183 min read

Continent Update - South and Central America

October 24th, 2018 Written by - Katherine Cassese '21 Inflation in Venezuela Venezuela is currently experiencing the highest inflation...

Oct 24, 20182 min read

Current Event Update - Africa

October 24th, 2018 Written by - Margot Luria '20 On September 21, in a step forward for the rights of the LGBTQ community in Africa, a...

May 31, 20189 min read

Current Event Update: April/May 2018

May 31st, 2018 Written by - Daania Tahir '19 This is just a stockpile of all the current event updates that I sent out between April and...

Feb 8, 20182 min read

Continent Update: Asia & the Middle East

February 8th, 2018 Written By - Aurora Shi '18 Asia - Pacific: NORTH KOREA and SOUTH KOREA will form a unit team to participate the...