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Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of the Scottish National Party and first minister of the devolved government of Scotland, is on tour in Washington this week. Ostensibly, the main purpose of the visit was to deliver a keynote speech on Scotland’s role in European energy security at a conference organized on Monday by the Brookings Initiative on Climate Research and Action. But the
The results of last week’s Northern Ireland Assembly elections were shocking, even though they were not surprising. The nationalists of Sinn Fein had been polling increasingly well since Britain voted to leave the EU in 2016. Compared with the previous assembly elections, however, its votes barely increased.
The US Senate last week passed a symbolic motion demanding that the previous iteration of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, known as the Iran nuclear deal, is not reinstated without fundamental changes — including reining in Tehran’s terrorist proxies that operate freely throughout the Middle East and addressing its growing ballistic missile program. The nonbinding
Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday went on trial in Myanmar accused of taking more than half a million dollars in bribes. If convicted, she can expect to spend an additional 15 years in prison. This is on top of the 11-year sentence she has already received for importing walkie-talkies for her security team, as well as a raft of other offenses. Her legal team is under a gagging order
Amnesty International this week headlined a list of 25 organizations that signed an open letter to the Bangladeshi government asking it to stop its policy of closing down community-led schools in the country’s Rohingya refugee camps. However sympathetic we might be to the motives of the government in Dhaka, it would do well to heed this call. It is surely right for the