Month: April 2022

President Joe Biden all but said during his first formal press conference on Thursday that the United States would likely extend its 20-year military campaign “Biden’s stated rationale for extending America’s war in Afghanistan is weak”

The Biden administration has officially committed to Covax, the global effort to fund and deliver Covid-19 vaccines around the world, including to lower-income countries. The “Why Biden’s pledge of $4 billion to help vaccinate the world isn’t enough”

Facebook’s sudden move on Wednesday to cut Australians off from the news (and the rest of the world from Australian news) was as surprising as “Facebook’s news ban in Australia is draconian. But it might not be wrong.”

Myanmar saw its largest nationwide protests since the military coup earlier this month, with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating in the streets and businesses “Myanmar’s pro-democracy protest movement is strengthening”

The Biden administration has begun allowing tens of thousands of asylum seekers who were forced to wait in Mexico for a chance to obtain protection “Biden is allowing asylum seekers caught by Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” program to cross the border”

The Arctic is now open for business year-round after a large commercial ship sailed the Northern Sea Route from Jiangsu, China, to a Russian gas “The latest consequence of climate change: The Arctic is now open for business year-round”

Hong Kong transformed in a year. Starting in June 2019, the city convulsed with protests over a controversial extradition bill. That expanded into a pro-democracy “A pro-democracy activist on Hong Kong’s year of turmoil: “The city itself is dying””

In February, President Joe Biden announced that he was ending America’s “offensive” support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, six years into the conflict that “The US may still be helping Saudi Arabia in the Yemen war after all”

President Joe Biden’s pick to be the third-highest civilian leader at the Pentagon is already facing a tough confirmation challenge a week before his hearing “GOP opposition to the Iran deal is threatening to sink a Biden Pentagon nominee”

India is facing a deepening Covid-19 crisis a year after it went into one of the world’s strictest lockdowns. But this time around, authorities are “India can’t vaccinate its way out of its latest Covid-19 surge”