Russia’s involvement in the political instability of Ukraine by annexing Crimea and inflaming the situation by arming the pro-Russian rebels in Donetsk puts it in a dire political situation as leaders of different countries push for further financial sanctions against Russia by the European Union. British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and…
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki refuses to hand in his resignation despite the US provision of air strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The US views Maliki’s sectarian policies as the driving force behind the Sunni Militant groups’ attacks. Currently, the ISIS holds Iraq’s biggest oil refinery in Baiji. Iraqi Foreign Minister…
Russia recently boycotted an informal Security Council meeting with Crimea’s Tatar minority and called the meeting as “inappropriate” and a distraction from the Ukraine Crisis, which Russia is deeply involved in. Other countries, including China and Rwanda, did not attend the security council meeting as well. Lithuania’s UN deputy ambassador Rita Kazragien said that the…
The US rejected Russia’s referendum to annex Crimea saying that the entire document was “rushed” in just a few weeks after the Russian military invaded many Crimean military bases and government offices. According to US President Barack Obama, the referendum and act violated international law and the Ukrainian constitution. Obama said that Russia compared its…
Germany is the newest country to join in contributing to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile, which had become a major issue in the Syrian civil war, which had lasted for more than two years. Germany’s response to a UN help request includes burning the destroyed weapons at a government facility in the town of Muenster…
Cyber attacks such as hacking is considered cyber crime and is punishable by law. A lot of cyber attacks from different known websites of the government or even other institutions have been circulating eveywhere in the world. It is hard to identify the masterminds of the said hacking but the country from where it came…
The gun violence in the United States has been very rampant last year. A lot of the citizens in the US were already alarmed of the accidents involving the use of guns in their country. More than a dozen of innocent people die because of unexpected violence even among young children and teenagers. The government…
The citizens of Ohio have clearly expressed their intentions for having an “energy boom” centered in Ohio. Ohio residents, once the center of commercial, industrial and business boom, had fallen into economic disasters because of outsourcing. Families in the area state that both participants in the U.S. presidential elections don’t seem to be allied with…