Murder of Shireen Abu Akleh, Al Jazeera Journalist
On May 11, 2022, Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist for Al Jazeera, was fatally shot while covering an Israeli raid in Jenin, West Bank. She was wear...
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On May 11, 2022, Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist for Al Jazeera, was fatally shot while covering an Israeli raid in Jenin, West Bank. She was wear...
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Russia launched a large-scale military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced what he called a special military operation...
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On October 20, 2021, a report presented to the Knesset's Special Committee on Foreign Workers drew attention to allegations of widespread sexual abuse affecting Thai m...
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On October 19, 2021, Israel's Knesset Special Committee on Foreign Workers discussed a report examining gender-based violence against Thai migrant agricultural workers...
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U.S. Drone Strike in Kabul That Killed Civilians Including Children On 29 August 2021, a drone strike conducted by the United States Central Command in Kabu...
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John David McAfee (September 18, 1945 – June 23, 2021) was a British‑American programmer and businessman best known for founding the McAfee antivirus software company....
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Olivier Duhamel, a prominent French political scientist and academic leader, was accused in 2021 of sexually abusing his stepson over many years. The revelations, publ...
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Gaza and US immigration policies affected by data analytics tools On December 5, 2020, analysts reported that U.S. immigration enforcement and counterterror...
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Palantir expands influence under Trump administration On November 12, 2020, reports indicated that Palantir Technologies, a data analytics and software comp...
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A French schoolgirl later admitted that she had falsely claimed that her teacher, Samuel Paty, was Islamophobic. She said she had not been present in the classroom dur...
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WE Charity, which was involved in a major Canadian federal grant program, faced scrutiny over conflicts of interest involving members of the Trudeau family and the awa...
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On June 17, 2020, President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson of Iceland visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The visit took place during an international gathering of heads of ...
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In the days following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody on May 25, 2020, large-scale protests erupted across Minneapolis and rapidly spread to ci...
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George Floyd was a 46-year-old Black American man who died on May 25, 2020, during an arrest by Minneapolis police officers after a store clerk reported that he may ha...
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In January 2020, a man described by Israeli authorities as a rabbi in his 60s was arrested in Jerusalem on suspicion of running a closed religious community in which d...
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Time magazine named Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as its Person of the Year on December 11, 2019. She was recognized for her global environmental activism an...
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In July 2019, public reporting revisited the long-standing financial relationship between billionaire retail executive Leslie Wexner and financier Jeffrey Epstein. Wex...
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The COVID-19 pandemic is a global outbreak of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, first identified in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. The World Health Organization (WHO) was notif...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been the subject of several high‑profile legal accusations and an ongoing corruption trial. In November 2019, he was indi...
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Winnipeg Kosher Café Hoax: Fabricated Hate Crimes in 2019 In October and November 2019, several incidents were reported at The Leafy Greens Café, a kosher v...
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Investigations revealed that Monsanto, a multinational agrochemical corporation, operated coordinated intelligence and reputation-management strategies aimed at journa...
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In May 2019, Rabbi David Mivasair, a Canadian citizen from Hamilton, Ontario, was detained by Israeli military forces in the South Hebron Hills region of the West Bank...
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On April 1, 2019, President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During the visit, Bolso...
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European Jewish Congress Recommendation on Contextual Notes in Bible and Qur’an On 23 November 2018, the European Jewish Congress (EJC) presented a document...
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6 August 2015 — Egypt inaugurates a major expansion of the Suez Canal involving a new parallel channel along part of the route and widening of existing sections. The g...
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1998–1999 — War in neighboring Kosovo becomes a major national and humanitarian issue for Albania. Hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees cross into Albania...
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January–August 1997 — The collapse of enormous fraudulent investment schemes wipes out the savings of hundreds of thousands of Albanians. Armed rebellion spreads, mili...
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8 December 1990 — Students in Tirana begin demonstrations demanding political and economic change. The protests rapidly become a national challenge to communist one-pa...
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1978 — Chinese economic and military assistance ends after years of growing ideological disagreement. Albania loses its final major communist ally and enters an extrao...
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National Security Decision Memorandum 314 concerned U.S. population policy following the NSSM 200 study. President Gerald Ford approved the associated policy decision ...
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The completed National Security Study Memorandum 200 examined worldwide population growth, food supplies, minerals and fuel, economic development, population pressures...
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38th president of the United States. Ford succeeded Nixon in 1974 and subsequently approved a National Security Decision Memorandum concerning population policy.
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National Security Study Memorandum 200, issued April 24, 1974, directed a study of worldwide population growth and its implications for U.S. security and overseas inte...
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International membership organization founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller to bring together participants from North America, Europe, and Asia for discussion of intern...
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International organization founded by Klaus Schwab as the European Management Symposium in 1971. It later became the World Economic Forum and developed into a platform...
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President-elect Richard Nixon selected Henry Kissinger as national security adviser during the transition to the Nixon administration.
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26 July–7 November 1956 — Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal Company after Western governments withdraw support for the Aswan High Dam. Britain, France and Israel secr...
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1954–1970 — Nasser becomes the dominant leader of revolutionary Egypt and formally assumes the presidency in 1956. His government promotes Arab nationalism, land refor...
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29 November 1944 — German forces have withdrawn and the communist-led National Liberation Movement controls the country. Rival political organizations are rapidly excl...
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1942–1944 — Communist-led partisans, Balli Kombëtar and other nationalist forces resist Italian and later German occupation. Rival resistance movements also fight one ...
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1 September 1928 — Zogu transforms the republic into a monarchy and takes the title Zog I, King of the Albanians. The monarchy seeks modernization and stronger nationa...
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German-born American diplomat, political scientist, national security adviser, and secretary of state. He served as national security adviser beginning in 1969 and as ...
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21–31 January 1920 — Albanian political leaders meet at Lushnjë to reassert sovereignty and resist foreign plans that threatened partition. The congress creates new na...
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March–April 1919 — Mass demonstrations, strikes and civil unrest erupt after British authorities exile nationalist leader Saad Zaghloul and other members of the Wafd m...
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January–June 1919 — France prioritizes security and compensation for destruction. Britain wants Germany constrained without permanently destroying European economic st...
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January–June 1919 — Allied leaders negotiate borders, reparations, military restrictions, mandates and a new international organization. Wilson's language of self-dete...
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1917–1918 — Woodrow Wilson increasingly presents American participation as part of a larger project to restructure international relations. His Fourteen Points call fo...
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American banker, philanthropist, and international affairs figure. He served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Bank and was a major participant in org...
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