Oct 11: The World Health Organisation (WHO) approves world’s first Malaria vaccine for use in Africa, The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has voted to stop formal investigations of war crimes in Yemen, Multiple world leaders have been implicated in the Pandora Papers, a leak that has uncovered the offshore shell companies in which people hide their wealth.
Oct 4: Brazil approves construction of power line through the Amazon reserve despite concerns, Former French military police officer admits to being a notorious serial killer in suicide note, Greta Thunberg led hundreds of young people to march along Milan to demand for swifter climate action.
Sep 27: World leaders gathered at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to enforce pledges to end energy poverty, Kim Jo-Yong negotiated that talks to discuss an end to the Korean war will only be done if “hostile policies” cease, new tally by the United Nations (UN) puts the death toll of the Syrian war at 350,000.
Sep 20: French submarine building deal with Australia abruptly ended after the latter decided to join a defence pact with the United Kingdom and the United States, the US government admits that a drone strike conducted in Kabul killed 10 innocent people, and Iran formally begins the process to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a Eurasia-adjacent alliance.
Sep 13: Four of the six prisoners have been caught after escaping from Gilboa Prison in northern Israel, a fire at a makeshift hospital treating COVID-19 patients in North Macedonia killed at least 14 people, the fire and smoke alarms sounded off at the Russian segment of the International Space Station while the batteries were being recharged.
Sep 6: UN Warns that Madagascar on the Brink of Famine, President Joe Biden Confident that US Withdrawal from Afghanistan was “Wise Decision”, Iran Prepared to Return to Nuclear Talks but Not Under Wester “Pressure”
Aug 30: Biden warns another highly possible attack on Kabul, ‘Humanitarian catastrophe’ unfolds as hundreds die in Western Ethiopian violence, 539 migrants rescued off Italian island of Lampedusa
Aug 23: At least two Afghans fell from the sky after clinging onto a US Air Force plane to flee Afghanistan last Monday, Taliban forces held its first press conference last Tuesday to explain its wish to have peaceful relations with other countries, hundreds of firefighters have been struggling to contain France’s worst wildfires
Aug 16: The UN released a climate report last Monday emphasising global warming may reach an irreversible state, North Korea did not answer routine calls with South Korea on inter-Korean hotlines last Tuesday, Taliban forces entered Afghanistan’s capital Kabul last Sunday
Aug 9: Afghan city of Sheberghan falls to the Taliban in Afghanistan war, Lebanon’s Hezbollah fires a volley of rockets at Israel in retaliation, Myanmar citizens arrested over plans to kill Myanmar UN ambassador
The IAS Gazette is a news site run by undergraduates from the Singapore Institute of Management’s International Affairs Society (IAS). Founded in 2018, it traces its roots to The Capital, a now defunct bimonthly magazine previously under the IAS.
