Venezuela

An overview of Venezuela

Venezuela is a Latin-American country with a warm, tropical weather. It has beaches and mountains, beautiful flora and fauna, and, above all, kind people. However, for the past seventeen years it has been struggling with a non-democratic regime, which has led to high levels of insecurity (according to Forbes Magazine, Caracas is the second most …

Somalia

Two lawmakers among 10 killed in hotel attack in Somalia

MOGADISHU, Somalia — The Al Qaeda-affiliated, Al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the hotel attack, saying its fighters detonated a car, laden with explosives, at the gate of the Ambassador Hotel on Makka Al Mukarama St in Mogadishu on Wednesday at around 5:45 pm local time.

Kazakhstan

Land protests and Nazarbayev

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan has been ruled by Nursultan Nazarbayev who declared himself as a lifelong president. Nobody has challenged his reign until now although recently Nazarbayev has faced a significant threat to his authoritarian regime and had to take measures.

EU

More than 700 feared dead in latest Mediterranean shipwrecks

At least 700 people have died in the Mediterranean Sea over the past week as three boats carrying migrants from several African countries capsized. All separate incidents, the three boats had left the Libyan coast and were heading toward Italy.