*Information is accurate and up-to-date as of Sept. 26, 2022, but this situation is actively unfolding. On Sept.13, 2022, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian visiting Tehran was taken into custody by the morality police and transported to a “re-education ...
70 years after going extinct on the subcontinent, last week, the cheetah — the world’s fastest land animal — returned to India as part of the government’s latest conservation effort. Last Saturday, eight cheetahs were flown in on a chartered ...
As the echoes of colonialism find their roots in today’s Western-oriented globalization, the recent rise of the BRICS, most notably China, has forced this power dynamic out of its usual narrative. As peripheral countries continue to have advancements in GDP, ...
Re·frac·tion (/rəˈfrakSH(ə)n/) Noun. Physics: Change in direction of propagation of any wave as a result of its traveling at different speeds at different points along the wave front. Josefa Barliza gazes off into the distant deserts of La Guajira, Colombia ...
After midnight on September 13, thousands of Armenians woke up to a nightmare. Just moments later, hundreds of phones here at the University of Southern California would be buzzing with notifications bearing the news. The nightmare, it seemed, had breached ...
Following the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, which resulted in the death of over 800,000 Rwandans, President Paul Kagame was tasked with the difficult job of uniting the country and restoring the economy. As the genocide significantly affected the health of ...
Hungary is a landlocked country uniquely positioned in Eastern Europe, with Ukraine to its East and six other countries bordering it. The country is important to the European Union (EU) and the West — as well as to Russia, which ...
At migrant shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border, disabled people continue to struggle daily to survive in inaccessible living conditions. As reports from the migration crisis at the border become overshadowed by other news stories, it remains critical to amplify stories ...
“I can’t go back even if I wanted to. After [COVID-19], we are all like the Wanaka tree”. On Aug. 1, 2022, New Zealand officially reopened its border to visitors from all over the world for the first time since ...
Although the animated Disney film Big Hero Six was released in 2014, viewers were able to return to the dynamic cultural city and landscape of San Fransokyo—a combination of “San Francisco” and “Tokyo”—earlier this summer. With the 2022 Disney+ series ...