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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 23, 20192 min read
The Rise of Antisemitism
October 23, 2019 | Written by - Sarah Namrow '21 On October 9, 2019, Jewish people all around the world went to temple services for Yom...
Oct 23, 20192 min read
An Update on Venezuela
October 23, 2019 | Written by - Carrie Bifulco '21 Venezuela is currently in the midst of a massive political crisis that has resulted in...
Oct 23, 20193 min read
Turkey - Syria - US Conflict
October 23, 2019 | Written by - Ria Raj '21 The Turks, Americans, Kurds, Syrians and ISIS. Yes, all of these bodies are involved in one...
Oct 23, 20193 min read
Kashmir
October 23, 2019 | Written by - Reema Gupta '22 Pakistan and India have been rivals ever since partition occurred in 1947, which made...
Oct 23, 20193 min read
Hong Kong Protests
October 23, 2019 | Written by - Eleanor Pompa '23 Earlier this year, protests broke out in Hong Kong due to the proposal of a bill that...
Oct 23, 20192 min read
Heroin Trafficking Effects Worldwide
October 23, 2019 | Written by - Caroline Davies '22 Here in Cleveland, Ohio, we are surrounded by an ever-present problem of heroin...
Oct 21, 20193 min read
Climate Change School Strikes
October 23, 2019 | Written by - Sophia Casa '23 On March 15th, 2019, roughly 1.4 million students, in over 123 countries, opted out of...
May 15, 20192 min read
Notre Dame
May 15th, 2019 Written By - Bridget O'Shea On the night of April the 15th, the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, France blazed as a fire...
Feb 21, 20192 min read
Nigerian Religious Conflict
February 21st, 2019 Written by - Mikala Smith '22 On October 29th, a religious sect called the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, which...
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...
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