Month: April 2022

North Korea tested its first missiles since President Joe Biden took office, launching two short-range projectiles last weekend off the country’s west coast and into “North Korea tested missiles again. It’s not as scary as it sounds.”

A massive container ship stuck sideways in Egypt’s Suez Canal has been blocking one of the world’s busiest waterways for over 24 hours, disrupting global “A massive ship is stuck in the Suez Canal, disrupting trade and inspiring hilarious memes”

Tania Aubid began her hunger strike on Valentine’s Day. “Valentine’s Day is about love and having that love for your partner — but for me “The Indigenous-led fight to stop the Line 3 oil pipeline expansion in Minnesota, explained”

North Korea’s second missile test in a week is increasing the pressure on President Joe Biden to respond, inching the nuclear-armed state further up the “Why North Korea is ramping up missile tests again”

“In Guam, even the dead are dying,” Chamorro author and activist Julian Aguon writes in his new book The Properties of Perpetual Light. Aguon, a “The generational grief of colonization”

Officials in Japan say a successful coronavirus vaccination drive is vital to the country’s ability to host the delayed 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo this “Japan’s Olympic hopes rest on a successful Covid-19 vaccine drive”

The Biden administration has officially committed to Covax, the global effort to fund and deliver Covid-19 vaccines around the world, including to lower-income countries. The “Why Biden’s pledge of $4 billion to help vaccinate the world isn’t enough”

Facebook’s sudden move on Wednesday to cut Australians off from the news (and the rest of the world from Australian news) was as surprising as “Facebook’s news ban in Australia is draconian. But it might not be wrong.”

Myanmar saw its largest nationwide protests since the military coup earlier this month, with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating in the streets and businesses “Myanmar’s pro-democracy protest movement is strengthening”

The Biden administration has begun allowing tens of thousands of asylum seekers who were forced to wait in Mexico for a chance to obtain protection “Biden is allowing asylum seekers caught by Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” program to cross the border”