International Current Affairs
Courtesy Global Conflict Tracker, dated October 09, 2020 The risk of military conflict is escalating in Nagorno-Karabakh, the border region claimed by both Armenia and Azerbaijan, due to the failure of mediation efforts, increased militarization, and frequent cease-fire violations. In late September 2020, heavy fighting broke out along the border—the most serious escalation since 2016. More than […]
Tens of thousands of Belarusians calling for the authoritarian President to resign marched through the capital on September 20 as the country’s wave of protests entered its seventh week. Hundreds of soldiers blocked off the center of Minsk, deploying water cannons and armored personnel carriers and erecting barbed wire barriers. Protests also took place in […]
While Japan, the third largest economy is grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic and facing its biggest economic slump on record and has postponed Tokyo Olympics Japan’s new Prime Minister, Yoshihide Suga takes over the Charge. On 28 August 2020, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe announced his intention to resign due to his deteriorating health. On 14 September, Yoshihide Suga was elected as the […]
Ouster of Nazibullah Government Afghanistan has been a problem state for last many decades. The period beginning 28 April 1992, the day that a new interim Afghan government was supposed to replace the Republic of Afghanistan of President Mohammad Najibullah could be traced as the beginning of the present problem. After Nazibullah government was ousted, an interim government could not be […]
The United States will hold its 59th presidential election on November 3, 2020. Incumbent President Donald Trump (R) is running for re-election. The winner of the 2020 presidential election will be sworn into office on January 20, 2021. The presidential primaries and caucuses were held between February and August 2020, staggered among the 50 states, Washington, D.C., and […]
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.- Abraham Lincoln The time in which we are living is a time of intolerance. A different kind of politics is in vogue which pits the majority against the minority, rich against the poor, natives against the immigrants and […]
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe has announced his resignation for health reasons. Announcing his plans to resign the Prime Minister said he did not want his illness to get in the way of decision making, and apologised to the Japanese people for failing to complete his term in office. The 65-year-old has suffered for many years […]
Lebanon is in crisis. Known as an oasis of prosperity and relative stability during the past decade of Middle East turmoil, Lebanon is descending into poverty, despair and potentially chaos. Economists are now predicting a Venezuela-style collapse, with acute shortages of essential products and services, runaway inflation and rising lawlessness — in a country at […]
Boris Johnson seems to have secured a new Brexit deal from the European Union. The EU, which was not agreeable to any change in Theresa May’s has at least indicated to replace the controversial Irish border issue (called Irish Backstop) replacing it with an alternative plan, offered up by the UK Brexit negotiators on under […]
According to the US Treasury statement (March 2019), the United States, in coordination with Canada and the European Union, has slapped new sanctions on more than a dozen Russian officials and businesses, citing Moscow’s “continued aggression in Ukraine. Six Russian officials, six defence firms and two energy and construction firms were targeted, either over the seizure of Ukrainian vessels in the Kerch Strait, […]