According to the United Nations, the extremely unpopular Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told the international organization’s representatives (including Secretary General Ban Ki-moon) that the Syrian government has ceased all of its violent military operations against thousands of Syrians. Despite the exertion of incredible international pressure on the Syrian...

After the December 2010 elections in Belarus, democratic activists and opponents of Belarus’s newly ‘re-elected’ President Alexander Lukashenko raised a storm over what they deemed to be fraud elections. President Lukashenko, who has been in office since 1994, was re-elected into office with more than 80% of the nation’s votes. More than 700...

A 5.6 magnitude (Richter Scale) earthquake struck Cuba near a U.S naval base at Guantanamo and the notorious Guantanmo Bay detention camp. The earthquake follows the recent and usual ”ritual” of the Ladies in White on March 18th, the anniversary of the Black Spring a 2003 government crackdown on political dissidents. The Ladies in White are spouses and female...