On 2 March 2022, almost all 193 United Nations member-states cast their votes, during an emergency special session of the UN General Assembly,…
The Election of Judge Jackson to the US Supreme Court: America’s Way of Choosing its Federal Judiciary
On 25 February 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to a newly-vacated lifetime seat in the US Supreme Court, which is…
UK Job Losses at P& O Ferries: A “Last-Resort” Corporate Decision with Tragic Human Consequences
Almost eight hundred UK-based seafarers and shore staff, around three-quarters of them working out of the Port of Dover, were informed by their…
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia executed 81 men, including seven Yemenis and one Syrian, on Saturday 12 March 2022, citing their support for…
As of 8 March 2022, an estimated 2, 155, 271 refugees have crossed Ukraine’s western border and entered Schengen Area countries (Hungary, Poland,…
The Mass Exodus of Indian Students from Ukraine: Incidental Victims of a Slavic Conflict
On 1 March 2022, Naveen Shekharappa Gyanagoudar, a 21-year-old fourth-year medical student at Kharkiv National Medical University in north-eastern Ukraine, left a bunker,…
Economic Sanctions: The Reappraisal of a Financial Tool for Conflict Resolution in the Russian Context
Russia’s recent military intervention in Ukraine has unleashed a barrage of economic sanctions from various Western and allied nations, including the US, the…
President Vladimir Putin of Russia launched a “specialised military operation” in Ukraine on 24 February 2022. He vowed, during a 28-minute-long address to…
The sedate and normally unexciting city of Ottawa in southeast Ontario, national capital of Canada since 1857, made the international news headlines for…
The Metropolitan Police Force, London: Random Observations on the Policing of a Major Law Enforcement Agency
On 10 February 2022, despite the Prime Minister’s “complete confidence” in her abilities, Dame Cressida Dick, first female and first openly gay Metropolitan…