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Description: The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of the country’s President when it decided to limit the birthright citizenship law and overruled independent judges from several counties in the US. The Supreme Court, by overruling local federal courts, extends the President’s powers and limits federal legislative bodies from intervening around Trump’s executive orders. SCOTUS also decided to reverse the decision from the federal courts on banning transgender people to join the military and also allowed Trump to continue with its mass deportation policies which controversially left many people in no man’s land on their immigration status. Legal experts have warned that the di
Description: Russian air forces have launched the largest aerial assault to date on Ukrainian targets by dispatching more than 540 aerial weapons including drones, decoys and missiles. The attack targeted several Ukrainian cities in the western parts of the country while the city of Kherson on the south and the Kharkiv region sustained most infrastructural damage with one person reported to have died while several were injured. The attacks arrive a week after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced renewed initiative from their side to reengage in negotiations with the intelligence chiefs of Russia and the US holding a phone call in order to establish an open channel of e
Description: Foreign Ministers from Rwanda and the DRC have signed the peace agreement, officially marking the cessation of hostilities with some controversial elements still remaining to be resolved. US President Donald Trump hosted the foreign ministers in the presence of US Vice – President JD Vance and Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. The general provisions of the agreement stipulate the disarmament of all non – state groups, bilateral respect for territorial integrity, and the creation of an intergovernmental body that would be responsible for extensive economic cooperation between the countries. The general provisions of the agreement also came under scrutiny from seve
Description: US President Donald Trump announced that the US and China have agreed upon the rare earth minerals exports and formulated a framework agreement which would enable China to expedite exports to the US. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce issued an unspecified official statement claiming that China would ease the licensing procedures for several items and in return the US would lift several restrictive measures it had imposed on Chinese goods. The trade breakthrough comes after high – level trade negotiations held in May in Geneva and the negotiations in London in Jun, culminating with the phone call between Chinese President Xi Jinping and the US President Donald Tru
Description: US President Donald Trump announced that his trade negotiations team would effective immediately terminate all forms of trade talks with Canada, after the latter announced the imposition of 3% Digital Services Tax Act (DSTA). The DSTA stipulated that tech companies such as Google, Meta, Apple and Amazon would be forced to pay 3% tax on digital services originating from the Canadian market which after projections amounted to over $2 billion bill due at the end of the month. Trade has been only one of the more sensitive subjects between the neighbors as Trump repeatedly threatened to annex Canada as the 51 US State and positioned the country as a collaborator in t
Description: South Korean national intelligence service (NIS) stated that latest assessments on North Korea’s mobilization rates indicated the country planned on sending more troops in support of Russia’s summer offensive on Ukraine. NIS further stated that previous close cooperation between North Korea and Russia continued with a rapid pace, with Russia increasing North Korea’s access to its highly developed military technology departments. According to the assessment issued by NIS, North Korean troops were expected in Russia as early as Jul or Aug. The announcement arrives after Ukrainian Army General, Oleksandr Syrskyi, stated that Ukrainian forces managed to prevent rece
Description: With the conclusion of the NATO Summit, European leaders met to discuss the latest US trade proposal before the 09 Jul deadline, when President Trump announced he would raise tariffs on several EU good in order to surpass the alleged trade deficit with the bloc. China has engaged in a diplomatic campaign of gathering potential trade partners and strengthening regional and global economic relations indirectly pitching the Union in reengaging towards their Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) which was stalled in 2021. China also reopened the fentanyl issue with the US by increasing export controls on several products and banning crucial precursors in an at
Description: Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted defense ministers from several allied countries such as Russia, Iran, Belarus, India and Pakistan while launching the Shanghai Cooperation Summit in the midst of the Middle East crisis and the NATO Summit in Hague. Leaders reaffirmed their close ties and strategic partnerships, with India refusing to sign the comprehensive joint statement over the organization’s definition of terrorism, referring to the Pahalgam attacks. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a 10 – member Eurasian political and security alliance, aiming at reaffirming partnerships between European countries and the ones pertaining to the so – called Global
Description: Following the latest border tensions between Cambodia and Thailand, Thai Prime Minister, Paetongtarn Shinawatra and the influential Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen, conducted visits to border forces in their respective countries. Thailand recently imposed border crossing restrictions while Cambodia has cut trade ties while both countries continued dispatching military forces across their borders. Shinawatra relayed a message of unity while visiting border troops and stated she wanted to witness the government’s recent policy decisions on scam centers crackdown firsthand. Sen on the other hand was warmly welcomed as a political veteran in Cambodia and issued p
Description: Kenyan Interior Minister, Kipchumba Murkomen issued a public statement accusing the protesters of trying to overthrow the government and stated that police crackdown on violence would continue in the upcoming period. The demonstrations took a violent turn due to police brutality in the country which subsequently caused sporadic fires, looting and violent confrontations between the protesters and the police forces. The youthful protests were held on the anniversary of last year’s civil crisis in Kenya over anti – tax legislature and the recent death of a young blogger held in police custody. Demonstrations were reported all across Kenya, with protesters calling f