Syria Heavy fighting resumed in Syria last week, with airstrikes in rebel-held areas of Syria killing scores and destroying a hospital supported by the international…
Posts published by “Ahmed Eissa”
Senior Staff Writer
aeissa2@umbc.edu
Portugal Last week, appellate courts in Portugal turned down the appeal of a former undercover US Central Intelligence Agency operative who sought to contest her…
Japan A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck southern Japan near the city of Kumamoto on Saturday morning around 1:25 a.m. local time, killing at least 19…
Vatican City On Friday, Pope Francis called on Catholics around the world to be more tolerant in practice towards homosexuals, but did not speak about…
Egypt & Cyprus An Egyptian national who falsely claimed that he was armed with lethal explosives hijacked an EgyptAir plane carrying 71 people last week,…
China Last Friday the Chinese government officially banned all depictions of homosexuals on television, labeling programs that do so as “vulgar, immoral and unhealthy content.”…
Morocco Morocco switched on what will eventually be the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant on Thursday. The new site, near the city of Ouarzazate, will…
North Korea North Korean officials announced Friday that the country would be holding a US student in detention for committing an unspecified “hostile act” while…
China China’s Communist Party announced on Thursday that married couples across the country will now be allowed to have two children, effectively ending the “one…
China’s Jinping opines on UK-EU spat While visiting the United Kingdom on Thursday, Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed that he wants to see a united…
The United States & Afghanistan President Barack Obama announced last Thursday that he will prolong the United States’ military presence in Afghanistan through most of 2016,…
Tunisia Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for helping build democracy in a country that is recognized as the birthplace…
Finland On Friday, Finland adjusted its forecast for the number of expected asylum-seekers to reach the country in 2015 from 30,000 to 50,000. The change…
Egypt President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi pardoned 100 prisoners on Thursday, in light of the major Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha. Among the pardoned individuals were two…
Egypt Ministers of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s cabinet, led by Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab, submitted their resignation to the president on Saturday. Sisi ordered…
Egypt Six soldiers, including four American peacekeepers, were wounded in two explosions caused by improvised explosive devices in northeast Sinai on Thursday. Pentagon official Captain…