A deal ending the standoff between Yemen’s Saudi-backed government of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, and UAE-backed separatist Southern Transition Council (STC), is expected to be announced on October 16, 2019. The two groups have typically been allied, but conflict broke out in August 2019 as the STC seized control of Aden ...

A dozen Catalan separatist leaders were sentenced to lengthy prison terms in October 2019, sparking protests in Spain...

Partial results on Monday October 14th, 2019 demonstrated that Poland’s populist ruling party, the Law and Justice party (PiS), has won 44% of the country’s support. The largest opposition party, the Civic Coalition (KO), is in second place with 26.7% ...

An Iranian oil tanker, identified as Sabiti, was hit by two missiles on October 11th, 2019, according to state media reports. The explosion took place in the red sea, off the coast of Saudi Arabia, where previous confrontations with Iran have taken place ...

The United States is preparing to impose new, tougher sanctions on Cuba due to its continued support of embattled Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro...

For nearly a week, protests have been raging in Ecuador over austerity measures. Thousands of indigenous people have led the demonstrations, which have turned increasingly violent- characterized by clashes with security forces, lootings, and vandalism ...

The US government has blacklisted a number of Chinese companies over alleged human rights abuses against the Uyghur people in Xinjiang province. Twenty-eight...

President Trump has called for American troops to withdraw from Northern Syria, just ahead of planned Turkish operations in region. For years, the United States has supported the Kurdish forces, People's Protection Units, (YPG) to fight the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS) in the country, while Turkey denounces the YPG as a terrorist group ...

Hong Kong’s Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, invoked colonial-era emergency powers, allowing her to pass a law without going through regular legislative proceedings, to ban face masks. Chief Executive Lam states that the measure makes it easy to identify protesters resorting to violence ...

Anti-government protests erupted throughout Iraq in early October 2019. In response to the unrest...