Tag: International

Why Brazilians Can’t Trust The Military to Save Democracy

Commentary After electoral authorities declared the far-left candidate, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the winner of Brazil’s presidential elections, millions of concerned citizens gathered outside the Army headquarters in Brasília and military barracks in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Curitiba to protest. Unfortunately, however, those concerned citizens might have sought the assistance of a…


US and Australia Need to Rethink Approach to Pacific Engagement: New Fijian Prime Minister

New Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has called on Australia and the United States to rethink their approaches to the strategic partnership with the Pacific country. In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Rabuka said he thought that Australia and the United States had an antiquated way of approaching diplomatic ties and engagement with Fiji….


We Need the Power of Many to Stand Against Feminist Agenda

Commentary It was 2014 when I first heard from Andrew, a young Queensland dad, who was being denied contact with his two young girls. From then on, he wrote regularly updating me on his eight-year Family Court marathon, where he lost round after round, despite his wife being declared an unfit mother after a court-ordered…


Australian City Hit by Tremors From 7.6 Earthquake

Tremors have reverberated in Australia’s “Top End” following a 7.6 magnitude undersea earthquake near Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands, east of Timor-Leste. The quake struck early on Jan. 10 with the epicentre located around 90 kilometres or 55.9 miles underwater. Residents in the capital city of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia reported “violent” shaking of their homes…


UN Chief ‘Deeply Frustrated’ People Aren’t Buying Into Climate Panic

The Secretary General of the United Nations said that he was  ‘deeply frustrated’ that wealthy nations are not really into fighting global warming. U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for a major reform of the international financial system, so that more advanced nations could send their wealth to poorer countries, to combat their vulnerability to climate…


LIVE 11 AM ET: Biden, North American Leaders Meet in Mexico City for Summit

U.S. President Joe Biden meets his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the North American leaders summit in Mexico City.   …


LIVE NOW: Biden, North American Leaders Meet in Mexico City for Summit

U.S. President Joe Biden meets his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the North American leaders summit in Mexico City.   …


Biden, North American Leaders Meet in Mexico City for Summit

U.S. President Joe Biden meets his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the North American leaders summit in Mexico City.   …


Kyiv Fortifies Eastern Front Amid Claims of Russian Breakthroughs in Donetsk Region

Kyiv is reportedly rushing reinforcements to the eastern Donetsk region amid unconfirmed reports of Russian gains in and around the flashpoint towns of Bakhmut and Soledar. “Our troops in Soledar have been allocated additional forces,” Serhiy Cherevaty, a spokesman for the Ukrainian military’s Eastern Command, said on Jan. 9. “Everything is being done to improve…


Brazil Police Clear Camp of Pro-Bolsonaro Protesters, Over 1,200 Arrested

Police in Brazil surrounded and began clearing a camp of protesters who back former President Jair Bolsonaro in the capital on Monday, with local media reporting over a thousand arrests as the country’s Supreme Court ordered the immediate dismantling of pro-Bolsonaro camps after protesters stormed government buildings over the weekend. At least 1,200 people have…