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Oct 27, 20225 min read
The political chaos in the UK: from Brexit to Liz Truss's resignation
After WW2, the United Kingdom was struggling to recover its economic prosperity and its empire was vanishing in Africa and Asia with the...


Oct 19, 20225 min read
Why are Armenia and Azerbaijan fighting a war?
Armenia has a long history of being home to ancient civilizations, and in the year 301 AC, it became the first state in the world to...


Oct 11, 20225 min read
Why are there so many protests in Iran?
Iran, known mostly until mid-20th century as Persia, has the longest record of being home to major civilizations without interruption...


Oct 6, 20225 min read
The battle for the presidency in Brazil
In 2018, Brazil elected a far-right president named Jair Bolsonaro, a former soldier under the Brazilian military dictatorship that...

Sep 29, 20223 min read
What is happening with the explosions of Russian pipelines in the Baltic Sea?
On Monday of this week, at least four major explosions were registered along the gas pipelines Nordstream 1 & 2 that run underwater on...

Sep 22, 20227 min read
Why did the extreme right won the latest elections in Sweden?
Sweden has been one of the most progressive countries in the world since it became a full liberal democracy in 1921, when the parliament...


Sep 10, 20224 min read
The countries where the British monarchy has political power
The British Empire became the largest in human history, reaching its peak of expansion in 1922 covering 25% of the world's land surface,...


Sep 2, 20225 min read
Iraq: From the US invasion of 1990 to the storming of the Parliament in 2022
The United States was the undeniable superpower that had defeated the communist bloc with an aggressive military strategy and promoting a...


Aug 25, 20224 min read
What is the situation in Afghanistan one year after the Taliban took over the country?
The Taliban, which means "students" in Arabic, is an Islamist group that ruled Afghanistan firstly from 1996 until 2001, when the United...


Aug 25, 20224 min read
Why Estonia became a model for digital governance?
Estonia is a Baltic state with just 1.3 million inhabitants that gained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, and has a...


Aug 17, 20224 min read
Why Russia invaded Ukraine?
• According to Russia, the war started in 2014 when the Western-backed Maidan revolution forced then pro-Russian president of Ukraine,...


Aug 9, 20223 min read
The threat of nuclear disaster in Ukraine, Amnesty's report and ending Russian tourism in the EU
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, located along the Dnieper River about 500 km southeast of Kyiv, is now part of the...


Aug 1, 20223 min read
The agreement between Russia and Ukraine over grain exports, and the gas conflict in Europe
Today the first shipment of Ukrainian grains for export left the port of Odessa, on the Black Sea, after Russia and Ukraine signed...


Jul 24, 20226 min read
Abenomics: a heterodox recipe to lift Japan out from decades of deflation and low GDP growth
Shinzo Abe, who held the record as the longest-serving prime minister of Japan since 1945, was assassinated on 8 July while speaking at a...


Jul 15, 20224 min read
The energy crisis in Europe: will Russia cut off the gas?
When Russia was accused of committing war crimes in Ukrainian cities, specially in Bucha and Mariupol, the European Union decided to...


Jul 8, 20223 min read
The legacy of Abe in Japan
The former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, 67 years old and a conservative-nationalist, was shot dead today in western Japan by a...


Jul 3, 20224 min read
Why is Israel bombing Syria and its main international airport?
Since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Israel has launched at least 400 airstrikes against military targets in Syria, and even...


Jun 23, 20223 min read
The fight between Lithuania and Russia over the exclave of Kaliningrad
This week, Lithuania banned 50% of the goods transiting on its territory that come from mainland Russia heading into the Russian exclave...


Jun 17, 20223 min read
The Macron-Scholz-Draghi visit to Zelensky, and the food shortage crisis because of war in Ukraine
After receiving a lot of criticism from other countries and at home for being too soft against Russia, Macron, Scholz and Draghi, from...


Jun 10, 20221 min read
Why there are so many mass shootings in the United States?
• 11 mass shootings happening per week on average in the U.S. • There are 120 civilian guns per 100 residents in the U.S. • 40% of...
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