Daily highlights, including: Scholz being very unpopular in Germany; Burkina Faso bans the French language, which I wholeheartedly support; China grants tariff-free access to more African countries to boost trade; protests by the Maori in New Zealand against fascistic policies; and the meeting of two epic Reddit presidents.
Daily highlights, including: Italy pulling out of the Belt and Road, Russia’s oil revenues fully recovering, and Guy Philippe returning to Haiti.
Daily highlights, including: a restart of the dipshit UK-Rwanda policy; record snowfall in Russia; nuclear power on the upswing as China develops the first fourth-generation plant; Peru’s Fujimori to be released from prison; and Maduro to develop the Esequibo despite not actually controlling it (yet).
Daily highlights, including: fossil fuel corporations at COP28; Nepalese same-sex marriage; sanctions on Uganda; Niger decoupling from France and the EU; Argentinian trade unions saying strong words against Milei; and another tentative step towards an Asian NATO.
Headlines and analysis from around the world over the previous week.
Daily highlights, including: Slovakia and Poland continuing to be angry at competitive Ukrainian prices; Iran confirms that it is receiving Russian aircraft; a new diamond mine in Angola amid a bad diamond market; water levels in the Mississippi causing problems for US farmers; continuing chaos in Haiti; and a Colombia coal mine exploited by a Europe which claims to care about human rights.
Daily highlights, including: the Baltics boycotting an OSCE meeting; Iran becoming angry at Erdogan’s lack of action on Gaza; Mozambique’s green transition plan; Panama ruling the Cobre Panama copper mine as unconstitutional; the Venezuela-Guyana dispute; and the US has successfully infused Margaret Thatcher’s soul into a new host body as a replacement for perpetual loser Guaido.
Daily highlights, including: Germany’s budgetary crisis after Scholz fucks up; Niger repealing an anti-migration law affecting Europe; the development of CropWatch since 1998; the successes of Nicaragua since 2018; and the battles between US and Chinese visions of supply chains.
Daily highlights, including: Poland having a new (likely temporary) minority government; a major storm hitting Crimea, Zambia failing to reach a debt deal; South Africa returning to major load shedding; and Indonesia and Malaysia rebelling against EU import rules.
Headlines and analysis from around the world over the previous week.