Author: Debolina Gayen

A boat carrying refugees sank off the Italian city of Crotone in the southern area of Calabria, killing at least 59 people, 12 of whom were minors. The boat, which had set out from Turkey several days prior carrying refugees from Afghanistan, Iran, and other nations, crashed on Sunday in squalls close to Steccato di Cutro, a seaside resort on Calabria’s eastern shore. According to some survivors, the boat may have carried up to 200 people when it departed from Turkey, prompting officials to worry that the death toll could surpass 100. According to the Italian Coast Guard, at least…

One year after Russia invaded Ukraine The conflict is widening the gap between the leading economies of the world, endangering fragile economic recovery efforts by upsetting the flow of food and energy, and detracting attention from efforts to fight poverty and restructure debt in developing nations. This past week, when the Group of 20’s top economic policymakers met for two days at a resort in Bangalore, India, efforts to show unity were overshadowed by escalating tensions regarding Russia. At the summit, developing nations like India, which have benefited from cheap Russian energy, refrained from criticizing the western nations for imposing…

New sanctions targeting North Korea were recently announced by its Southern counterpart following the latest missile launches conducted by Pyongyang. As stated by South Korea’s foreign ministry,  the measures in particular targeted four individuals and five entities, which included two Singaporean shipping firms and a South African national, linked to North Korea’s development of missiles and nuclear weapons. This announcement came after North Korea had fired from its eastern coast two short-range ballistic missiles, post two days after it tested fire on an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). On Feb 19th, 2024, South Korea along with the United States of America…

Thousands of trade unionists in the North African country of Tunisia have held protests across the country over worsening economic woes and the subsequent arrest of a top union official. Presently, the country is in drawn-out talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in order to secure a bailout loan, which according to the powerful UGTT labor union workers’ federation could entail painful austerity measures. In this regard, the UGTT labor union had stated that they had no deal with the government on matters of reforming subsidies and publicly owned companies and will head street protests over any such changes.…

Following the state television reports, at least 53 people have been killed in an attack in the central desert province of Homs, Syria. This comes days after a magnitude of 7.8 earthquakes struck southeastern Turkiye and neighboring Syria on February 6, destroying thousands of buildings and claiming tens of thousands of lives. Presently, there have been no immediate claims of responsibility for the attack. The news agency SANA reported that the bodies of the victims that were taken to the Palmyra state hospital had gunshot wounds to the head, citing the hospital’s head as saying. As per the news agency…

Leading diplomats, military officers, and politicians from around the world gathered in Munich on Feb. 17th, 2024 in order to survey a European security landscape that was transformed by Ukraine’s invasion by the Russian forces that began on Feb. 24, 2022 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said there was “no alternative to Ukrainian victory”. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz are among the many top officials attending the Munich Security Conference which is a major annual global gathering that is focused on defense and diplomacy. By its own measure, it has been…

As per a South Korean newspaper, the North Korean food crisis appears to have deteriorated as reports of ration cuts for North Korean soldiers, for the first time in 23 years, came to the limelight. South Korea’s unification ministry, however, stated that it could not confirm the details of the media report, nevertheless, it and other agencies were monitoring the situation. Supplies were reduced from 620g per soldier to 580g, raising concerns that the East Asian country’s food shortage could be even worse than imagined. Over the recent years, North Korea has over the recent decades suffered serious food shortages,…