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As we have been reporting, for nearly three weeks, hundreds of thousands of farmers began protesting on the outskirts of Delhi in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push for deregulations they fear will sink them deeper into poverty. Yesterday, leaders of Indian farmers’ unions held a hunger strike in hopes of pressure on the...

Last month, we reported that gunfire erupted between Moroccan forces and a pro-independence group in Western Sahara, ending nearly 30 years of peace in the area. The Moroccan military clashed with fighters from the Polisario Front in several locations.  Brahim Ghali, the Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, announced in a decree the beginning of the...

The Honduran government worked quickly to disperse a caravan with hundreds of migrants who were headed to the U.S. after the country was hit by two enormous hurricanes.  The Wall Street Journal reported the caravan was broken up last Thursday after officers from Honduras spotted the migrants, many of whom were lacking basic identification cards and no...

Fierce clashes broke out last week in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, which attracted Iraqi authorities and resulted in at least eight fatalities, according to a report.  The Financial Times reported last Thursday there is growing public anger over government corruption on top of owed salaries. The Washington Post reported the government worked quickly to shut down the internet and...

As we have been reporting in the Trends Journal, last month, in an effort to consolidate his power, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched an offensive against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which threatens stability across the broader Horn of Africa. The conflict has sent over 50,000 Ethiopians fleeing across the border into Sudan, and...

Thousands of protesters organized in Paris on Saturday to condemn President Emmanuel Macron’s new security law that many say is an affront to their individual liberties, which essentially makes photographing or filming police officers a crime. The bill includes a provision that would make it illegal to broadcast “the face or any other identifying element”...

As much of the nation goes into lockdown and millions of businesses and tens of millions of lives are being destroyed, the people’s so-called representative in Washington passed a $740 billion defense budget… the largest in American history. Despite President Trump’s call for withdrawing half of the 4,500 troops currently in Afghanistan – by far...