What in the World?
This week in FP’s international news quiz: vaccine waivers, U.S. diplomatic trips, and protests in Colombia.
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France: Police Expelling Migrant Children
Click to expand Image A member of the French border police checks identity documents in March 2021 at the Menton-Garavan station, the first French train …
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Can Kamala Harris Resurrect the Alliance for Prosperity?
The vice president’s plan for Central America depends on tackling rising corruption.
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Stopping Drug Patents Has Stopped Pandemics Before
Loosening property rules over coronavirus vaccines is likely to accelerate—not stifle—the pharmaceutical industry’s creativity.
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Martial Law in Eastern Congo No Pretext for Abuse
Click to expand Image Congolese soldiers stand in a field camp in Paida, near Beni, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on December 7, …
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Unrest Returns to Colombia Over COVID-19 and Police Violence
The pandemic has increased debt in Latin America, and paying up may stoke social tensions.
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US State of Alabama Removes Anti-LGBT Language from Sex Ed Law
Click to expand Image LGBT Rainbow Flag © 2008 Ludovic Berton (Wikimedia Commons) Alabama’s Governor Kay Ivey has signed a bill that will update the …
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How Netanyahu Learned to Love Israeli Arab Parties
The prime minister who once presented Arab citizens and political leaders as a threat has legitimized them as potential coalition partners.
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Russia: Withdraw New Batch of Oppressive Laws
Click to expand Image Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin addresses the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s Parliament, in Moscow, Russia. July 22, 2020. © 2020 AP …
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Israel’s Apartheid Doesn’t Make a Difference
A new report about the Israel-Palestine conflict is morally damning—and politically irrelevant.
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Time for Action to Protect Australia’s Older People
Click to expand Image A resident looks out from the window of the Florence Aged Care Facility amid the second wave of the coronavirus …
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Hydrogen buses hit the road
In a commitment to more sustainable public transport operations, Transit Systems has purchased two hydrogen buses to service its public transport contracts. The buses are …
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Biden Pledges Support for Covid-19 Intellectual Property Waiver
Click to expand Image Supporters attend the Rally for Vaccine Access for Everyone, Everywhere on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Eric Kayne/AP Images …
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In Kyiv, Blinken Shows a New Face for the U.S.
After Trump, Biden’s top diplomat works to patch up relations with Ukraine—and with beleaguered U.S. diplomats
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COVAX: Enhance Transparency, Share Intellectual Property
Click to expand Image A woman receives the AstraZeneca vaccine for Covid-19 at an apartment building in Bengaluru, India, April 24, 2021. © 2021 AP …
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Uganda: Reject Sexual Offenses Bill
Click to expand Image Brenda, a Ugandan transgender woman, was arrested and assaulted by police in the wake of the passage of Uganda’s 2014 Anti-Homosexuality …
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ICC Sentences LRA Leader to 25 Years
Click to expand Image Dominic Ongwen at his confirmation of charges hearing in ICC courtroom I on 21 January 2016 © ICC-CPI. The International Criminal …
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