As of July 4, 2019, the Abe administration in Japan began imposing export controls on materials used in smartphones and semiconductors to South Korea. South Korean technology firms such as Samsung will...

On July 8, 2019, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, a branch of the United States Department of Defense, alerted Congress of its plans to sell $2.2 billion worth of arms to Taiwan. The sale will provide Taiwan with...

The European Court of Justice will begin hearing a case between the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) and Facebook over the legality of the transfer of user data between Europe and the US...

On July 8, 2019, Russia banned direct flights to and from the country of Georgia. Russia has instituted the ban in retaliation for protests in Tbilisi last month in response to a speech by Sergei Gavrilov, a Russian legislator, in Georgia’s Parliament...

Earlier this week, Iran contravened a foundational aspect of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The agreement, reached in 2015, prohibited Iran from stockpiling more than 300 kilograms...

After twenty years of negotiation, the European Union and the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) consisting of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay have come to a trade agreement. Both sides have described the event as a “landmark” deal...

In a major shift for the US, the insurance company Chubb will cease providing coverage to coal-fired power plants...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is hosting world leaders in Osaka for the annual G20 Summit. Since 2015, the final communiqués drafted at previous summits have...

All six judges of Moldova’s Constitutional Court have resigned after allegations by the new ruling coalition that the judges had been under the influence of...

On June 27, 2019, two suicide attacks hit the Tunisian capital of Tunis. The first suicide bomber targeted a police patrol close to the French Embassy on Charles de Gaulle Avenue in the Tunisian capital. The first blast...