After months of speculation, the citizens of the United Kingdom voted in favor of leaving the European Union. With 100 percent of the 33.5 million votes votes now counted, the “leave” camp came out victorious, garnering 51.9 percent of the vote as opposed to the “remain” camp’s 48.1 percent. The United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union […]
Read more "Brexit: United Kingdom Votes to Leave European Union"The Syrian Civil War has been raging on for over four years with no end in sight. The conflict began in 2011, when the worst drought in the country’s history decimated farmer’s livelihoods. Lack of water forced Syrian farmers to drill illegal wells in a desperate attempt to get water, but these wells only provided temporary […]
Read more "Syrian Refugee Crisis"The Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French magazine, were attacked around noon local time yesterday by a group of armed men. Armed with AK-47s, a shotgun, and an RPG, two of the men stormed the offices and immediately opened fire. The gunmen swept throughout the building, attempting to find specific people. Once finding them, they would shoot them […]
Read more "#JeSuisCharlie"What started off as anti-government protests have escalated into a foreign occupation. Earlier last week, unidentified gunmen took over various government buildings in the southern part of Ukraine known as Crimea. Once the gunmen established control of these buildings, they quickly raised the Russian flag. This comes after a majority of members of the president’s […]
Read more "Russian Intervention in the Ukraine"Spontaneous protests erupted in Ukraine’s capital city of Kiev the night of November 21st after Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych decided to reject a free trade deal with the European Union that would have brought the Ukraine one step closer to European integration. The rejection of the free trade deal coupled with crippling unemployment and government corruption that […]
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