The last time a Russian warship fired on a British one in the Black Sea was during the Crimean War, over 165 years ago, therefore, this puts into perspective the absolute importance of recent events in the Black Sea, where the Russian government admitted that it had fired a warning shot at HMS Defender, a British destroyer that was sailing …

The Amazon rainforest is the world’s largest intact forest. It is home to more than 24 million people in Brazil alone, including hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Peoples belonging to 180 different groups (Brazil and the Amazon Forest). Among other tribes, Yanomami are one of those largest isolated indigenous tribes. They belong to semi-nomadic communities and depend on soil regeneration …

On Sunday 27 June, the United States deployed strikes in Iraq on the Iraqi-Syrian border, killing at least five people (Le Monde, 2021). However, it was not armed groups sympathetic to the Iraqi regime that the American aggressor was targeting, but a pro-Iranian militia. This operation, the second of its kind since Biden took office, follows targeted attacks by Iranian-backed …

In mid-June, the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, publicly acknowledged that “the people’s food situation is getting tense” as the national agricultural sector had failed to meet its grain targets due to typhoons which caused flooding last year, destroying more than 40.000 hectares of cropland and approximately 16.860 (BBC, 2021; Bicker, 2021). Nevertheless, flooding worsened the already dire …

The whole Brexit process has been an earthquake, which has shaken the foundations of the relationship that the European Union and the United Kingdom had been able to forge. Brexit has threatened to be a significant turning point for both parties involved, changing the way of living of millions, ranging from Brits who live in EU Member States, to European …

The special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom has experienced different periods of closeness but also of more distance. Nonetheless, one of the moments, which have extremely influenced this relationship is the signing of the original Atlantic Charter, as it was the structural document, which enabled this transatlantic relationship to be created. The importance of this charter …

Last month, the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Felix Tshisekedi,  announced he planned to renegotiate mining contracts signed by his predecessor, Joseph Kabila, with special attention to those with China. Tshisekedi complained that contracts have put the population and the state at a disadvantage losing out on the mineral wealth of the country (Africanews, 2021). In 2007, …

Diplomatic relations between the United States and Hungary goes back to 1921, when the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy dissolved at the end of World War I. Since then, mutual relations between the two countries have experienced  many ups and downs. During World War II, Hungary allied with Nazi-Germany and the cooperation with the United States  stalled. Following 1945, the two countries tried …

India and China’s staggering population growth makes them the most populous nations in the world, as well as the two most economically dynamic countries in Asia. Their influence in the diplomatic spheres and in the business world has only grown with time, making them key global actors. The relationship between these two giants Far from being a walk in the …

President Joe Biden is programmed to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on June 14 during his tour of European allies. American-Turkish relations have been under strain in recent years due to Ankara’s diplomatic flirts with non-Western powers, especially Russia, and its involvement in the Syrian civil war. Furthermore Turkey’s ambition to gain independence from foreign weaponry and technology is …