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on October 17, 2018

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Ship hits the fan in the Ukraine-Russia Conflict

A map of the Black sea and the Sea of Azov. The Ukrainian ships were sailing from a port in Odessa to one in Mariupol but got intercepted in the strait of Kerch by the Russian Federal Security Service. Ukraine’s parliament has overwhelmingly voted to support President Petro Poroshenko’s motion to impose martial law for 30 days, following an incident near the Russia-occupied Crimea when Russian border guards opened fire and on three Ukrainian navy vessels sailing into the Kerch strait before seizing the ships and crews. Several Ukrainian sailors were injured in a major escalation of the Russian-Ukraine conflict. Western leaders have widely condemned Russia’s actions but have called for de-escalation on both sides. This incident is just the cauldron finally boiling over after years of tension and violence. The conflict really started in 2014, when Poroshenko was elected. He was heading an assertive, pro-western government who were turning their backs on Russia and looking to...

Is this the end of Brazil and Cuba's friendship?

Cuban doctors waiting to meet president Miguel Diaz-Canel after landing in Havana on the 23rd of November Thousands of Cuban Doctors have begun to leave Brazil on the Cuban government’s orders after comments from Brazil’s new far-right president Jair Bolsonaro prompted Cuba’s government to terminate a cooperation agreement. Brazilian mayors have warned that up to 30 million people are going to be left without healthcare. Brazil’s government is now scrambling to replace the 8300 vacancies, but this is proving difficult, many of the Cuban doctors were working in remote or rural areas where local doctors refused to work. Healthcare is Cuba’s most lucrative export, the ‘more doctors’ or ‘Mas Medicos’ program operate in 67 countries and makes the country 11 billion dollars a year, in 2013, Cuba began sending doctors to Brazil under this program. However, after Bolsonaro’s win, in a statement which the Cuban Health Ministry called “contemptuous and threatening”, Bolsonaro stated...

Golden Horse Awards speech sparks controversy

Fu Ye gives the speech which sparked so much controversy after she wins Best Director at the 55th annual Golden Horse Awards During the 55 th annual Golden Horse awards, the Chinese equivalent to the Oscars, coverage was reportedly cut off when the winner of Best Director, Fu Ye, called for Taiwanese independence and said that her biggest hope was that “our country” could be regarded as an “independent entity.” Immediately after her comments, Fu Ye was attacked on Weibo and on Facebook with thousands of derogatory posts. Her award winning documentary; ‘Our Youth in Taiwan’, tells the story of the Sunflower Movement Protests of 2014 which began with the occupation of the Yuan Legislative chamber by protestors. A movement driven by students and civic groups protesting a free trade agreement, the Cross Strait Service Trade Agreement (CSSTA), with China. It would have opened up the Taiwanese Service Industry to Chinese investment and was passed without the knowledge of ...

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