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Description: President Trump’s big, beautiful tax cutting bill is entering the Senate, where representatives from the Republican and Democratic party would initially read and examine the bill before putting it up for discussion and subsequent voting. The controversial legislature is aimed at lowering the country’s national debt through drawing funds from crucial sectors and programs, such as Medicaid, and relocating them towards increasing the number of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency) agents and increasing the country’s spending on the military and oil exploration initiatives. The funding cuts were reportedly expected to reach $3.8 trillion and while some pa
Description: Centre – right Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis has come under scrutiny over a corruption scandal looking to cause massive disruptions in his shaky government. The scandal revolved around the misuse of agricultural subsidies provided by the European Union to the amount of EUR 290 million and included nonexistent farmers and landowners, fictitious cattle and several state ministers. The funds were distributed through the dissolved national subsidy agency, OPEKEPE. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) has launched an investigation into the corruption scandal which prompted several of the reported ministers involved in the scandal to submit their
Description: Last week’s anti – government protests in Togo have claimed their first victims after the bodies of 7 people were found scattered around different locations in the capital city of Lome. Violent demonstrations broke out last week against the country’s President Faure Gnassingbe whose family has ruled the country for more than 60 years, after which he inherited the position from his father and entrenched himself in political power indefinitely. Gnassingbe recently positioned himself as President of the Council of Ministers, a role which has no fixed term, which prompted protesters to take their frustrations with the government to the streets. Togo has legislativel
Description: Bilateral tensions between the two neighbors abruptly surged, when Russian law enforcement agents killed two Azerbaijani citizens in a raid in the city of Yekaterinburg. Azerbaijan's law enforcement services conducted a raid on the Russian state – sponsored Sputnik TV, where several individuals residing illegally in the country were arrested. Azerbaijan has also cancelled all Russian entertainment venues while the Russian Foreign Ministry has called the Azerbaijani ambassador to explain the detention of the crew working in the TV station. Ties between Azerbaijan and Russa have been strained since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine when a plane was accidentally shot b
Description: Last weekend’s violent clashes between anti – government protesters and the Serbian police in Belgrade brought about no conclusive outcome to Serbia’s revolving political crisis. President Vucic has strengthened the control around the student movement that inspired nationwide discontent against his methods and policies of governance. Domestic media sources have started affiliating the movement with Serbia’s political opposition citing statements from last weekend’s demonstrations which further labeled the demonstrations’ independence as politically motivated to topple the incumbent government. The students have strenuously objected to be connected to the politic
Description: According to official statements from the US Treasury Department, US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order lifting sanctions on almost 518 Syrian entities which have been under US sanctions that predated Syrian President Bashar Al – Assad. Trump reconfirmed the stance he proclaimed while meeting Syrian President Ahmed Al Sharaa in Saudi Arabia in May, which would effectively announce the beginning of Syria’s socio – economic reconstruction. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has stated that some sanctions would remain unchanged, especially the ones referring to individuals and entities related to Iran’s proxy groups in the country and ot
Description: Controversies continue to mount around the degree of success the US Midnight Hammer operation brought in depleting Iran’s nuclear program. After the leaked DIA assessments, the media pipeline was flooded with other unidentified and unnamed sources who claimed that even though the program has experienced substantial setbacks, caused by the attacks, it was still very active and could be revived completely. The Iranians remained reserved in their public portrayal of the attacks as they only confirmed the program was considerably damaged without getting into the degree of the damages. IAEA Director General, Rafael Grossi, commented that damage assessment on the bomb
Description: Ukraine’s President, Volodymir Zelenskyy announced that his country would join other countries from Eastern Europe in abandoning the Ottawa land mine treaty from 1997. The treaty is signed by 164 countries worldwide while the other 33 have refrained from joining the agreement which bans the usage of anti – personnel mines. Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland have already agreed to unilaterally abandon the treaty as country officials have stated that Russia’s consistent incursions pose substantial territorial risk for the EU and NATO members. The mines are banned due to their indiscriminate targeting of individuals as most of the victims from land mine
Description: The Israeli military has issued an emergency evacuation order concerning citizens in the northern cities of the Gaza Strip. IDF has killed more than 100 people in the past couple of hours, most of whom were civilians attempting to reach humanitarian aid. The evacuation order comes on the back of the planned expansion of military operations in the Gaza Strip. US President Donald Trump, feeling victorious for having secured the cessation of hostilities between Israel and Iran, announced that significant progress has been made in recent negotiations of ending Israel’s war in Gaza and the West Bank, without outlining details. Hamas, Israel’s main opponent, was repor
Description: More than 140 thousand people gathered to protest the rule of their populist President Aleksandar Vucic, naming the incumbent government of being complicit in large scale corruption, ties with organized crime and censure of media rights. The students issued an ultimatum last week, calling President Vucic to disband the Parliament and organize snap elections, which could see the end of his 12 – year rule in the country. Vucic vehemently denied calling snap elections and opted for repression instead, naming unidentified state actors to have been behind the student protests attempting to topple the current Serbian government. The demonstrations blocked key traffic