The Freedom House 2021 Report was released recently which looks into the democratic state of the world in the previous year (2020) and assigns scores related to various factors that determines if a country is politically and democratically “not free”, “partly free”, or “free”. Naturally you want your country to be free as that means […]
Iraq is a country located in Western Asia and is a part of the Middle East, it borders the countries of Iran, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, the country also has a small strip of land that stretches to the coast of the Persian Gulf, giving Iraq a small area of access to […]
All Coronavirus Restrictions gone by 21st June? Boris Johnson set out his roadmap last week showing the path out of the current lockdown. The main dates include 8th March where schools and colleges reopen, 29th March with rule of six and outdoor sports allowed, 12th April with unessential shops, beauty, gyms, and outdoor hospitality opening, […]
Featured Photo: By Henry aw from Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0. Source. Earlier in the year I included in one of my news posts back in January about an inquiry begun into alleged widespread corruption in the British Overseas Territory’s political landscape and institutions that could not be addressed by the island itself and so […]
Featured photo: Image by fernando zhiminaicela from Pixabay As it stands according to the Johns Hopkins University the US has a 5.29% positivity rate and around 71k are testing positive per day, this is actually not too bad in ratio to the US population size and is almost down to the 5% rate that Johns […]
Iran is a country located in Western Asia and also considered a part of the Middle East and you have likely heard much about the country over the last decade or so in the news and all, especially related to its nuclear ambitions, the Iran Nuclear Deal, and movements in conflicts within the Middle East via […]
mRNA Vaccine for Cancer Immunotherapy Chinese scientists have created a new vaccine for cancer immunotherapy that works similar to COVID-19 vaccines. The new mRNA vaccine activates immune system to attack a protein made by tumour cells, rather than protein made by COVID-19. The mRNA is contained in a hydrogel that slowly releases RNA that causes […]
Featured Photo: by johnmartindavies from Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0. Source. Barbados, a small eastern Caribbean island nation that was once part of the British Empire and is currently part of the Commonwealth Realm will soon be transforming into a full-on Republic. What this means basically is that the island nation will be leaving the […]
Featured Photo: By Christine Davis from Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0. Source. As we all well know by this point, Donald Trump lost the election to former Vice-President and now President of the United States Joe Biden last November, leading to what happened at the capitol, then an impeachment and charge of insurrection against the US Government […]
Indonesia is a nation made up of a very large chain of volcanic islands that stretch across the Indian and Pacific Oceans, located within Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is bordered with several nations including with Papua New Guinea, which it shares the island of New Guinea with, it borders the Eastern part of Malayasia […]