Here’s what’s going on in the world for the week of August 8, 2022.
Global News
The World Economic Forum has five stories on the environment including the world’s current energy mix, record heat waves in the UK due to climate change and a study on the world’s freshwater is now past it’s critical limit.
Why OPEC won’t bring down oil prices.
Americas
The Cristalino II State Park in Mato Grosso, Brazil will be dissolved after the state government refused to appeal a court decision claiming the park was set up illegally in 2001 without public consultation. This case was brought about by a company linked to Antonio José Rossi Junqueira Vilela, who has been responsible for thousands of hectares of land in the Amazon being deforested and stolen.
Experts worry that the Ortega regime in Nicaragua is setting an example for other repressive regimes in Latin America.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres criticized the $100 billion profits of oil companies during the first quarter of 2022.
Africa
According to the World Health Organization, life expectancy between 2000 and 2019 grew by an average of 10 years, while global life expectancy grew by five years.
Senegal’s government and rebels from the southern Casamance region have signed a peace deal to help end more than 40 years of conflict in the region.
The Nigerian government will be receiving 72 Benin Bronzes looted during the 19th Century, from The Horniman Museum and Gardens in London.
Explainer: Kenya’s elections
Europe
The Ukraine-Russian War at 165 days.
Victims of Russia’s war in Georgia’s Abkhazia region are still waiting for justice.
Explainer: Renewed tensions between Kosovo and Serbia.
The U.S. Senate voted to ratify NATO membership for Finland and Sweden.
Middle East
Negotiators over the Iran Nuclear Deal are optimistic about the deal’s odds of being passed.
The protestors in Baghdad are drawing from the support base of Muqtada al-Sadr.
According to reports, pro-Iranian government hackers launched a cyberattack against Albanian government sites in mid-July to disrupt an Iranian dissident group, Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, during a conference int eh capital Tirana.
Asia
India and the United States will be holding annual bilateral military drills in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, about 95 kilometers from the Line of Actual Control, the border demarcating India and China.
The government of the Solomon Islands is exerting more control over the state-owned Solomon Island Broadcasting Corporation, a move critics claim is censorship by the government.
Explainer: Why China is staging drills over a visit by U.S. Senator Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan.
The Taliban claims they did not know that a chief of al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahri, was in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.
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