October 25, 2022 - World Headlines Weekly

October 25, 2022 - World Headlines Weekly

Headlines for the week: * Protests expand and evolve across Haiti, calling for the Prime Minister to resign and for international military interventions to stay away * The European Parliament issues a groundbreaking resolution, calling for European countries to support a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty at COP 27 * Burkina Faso swears in Ibrahim Traore as a transitional president after his successful coup in September brought him to power * Sudan sees intense tribal violence as conflict over land rights explodes

October 11, 2022 - World Headlines Weekly

Headlines for the week: * World's biggest climate summit picks world's worst plastic polluter as chief sponsor * South Africa encounters funding deadlock because of predatory, high risk loans * Okinawan protestors physically block construction of 33rd U.S. military base on the island * Colombia resumes historic peace talks with rebel group, with potential to end a decades-long civil war

October 4, 2022 - World Headlines Weekly

Headlines for the week: * In Africa, Burkina Faso experiences a military coup, overthrowing an administration that governed for just 9 months * Brazil heads to a runoff presidential election as neither major candidate crosses the 50% threshold to win outright * Haiti gas protests expand, targeting US-based multinational oil companies * UN representatives and warring parties fail to extend a ceasefire in Yemen, raising fears of a reignited civil war * The Cuban people pass a groundbreaking civil rights referendum, reforming the country's dated national Families Code

September 20, 2022 - World Headlines Weekly

Headlines for the week: * Brazil approaches monumental general election as violence from far-right supporters increases * Pakistan continues to suffer from nationwide flooding * Lebanon announces 3-day bank closures as the country's financial situation and living conditions worsen * Protests over gas prices erupt in Indonesia and Haiti * Indigenous-led nonprofit in Guam fights to protect the island's drinking water from military munitions detonations and dumps