More than 800 million people around the world use the social media short-video app TikTok. But some governments around the world are concerned that the Chinese-owned app allows the Chinese government to access...
How Turkey’s coup attempt unfolded
Here’s how a faction of the military tried to overthrow the Turkish government and failed on July 15, 2016.
A Timeline of July 15
On July 15, 2016, a military faction tried to overthrow the Turkish government by seizing control of the country’s key institutions. Scores of people were killed in the violence and thousands of others injured. Here’s...
Why Face Masks Don’t Work, According To Science
So much debate over whether or not we should be wearing masks in order to fight COVlD but multiple scientific studies over the past decade have already settled this question. Not only do medical masks not prevent the...
Thousands take to Baku streets, storm parliament to demand ‘mobilization’ against Armenia
Police used water cannons and batons against protesters who stormed the parliament in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku. The crowd demanded mobilization amid border escalation with Armenia, but officials said that it’s...
Armenia-Azerbaijan forces clash along border, dozens dead
Some of the fiercest fights have broken between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which had been locked in a conflict for decades over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the southwest of Azerbaijan, which was seized by...
US drops order denying visas for foreign students following online courses
The Trump administration dropped plans to strip foreign students of their visas if their college courses went entirely online. Top US schools such as Harvard and MIT had threatened legal action against the White House...