Andres Davila | News Director Following a re-emergence of the immigration debate in the United States, FIU’s Office of Global Learning Initiatives dedicated Oct. 17, Tuesday’s Time Roundtable to the patterns and motivations of global migration. Marcie Washington, a politics and international relations professor, addressed the definition of global migration and its impacts on migrants. […]
Danielle Haller/ Staff Writer COP26, the 26th UN Climate Change Conference is over, and in a nutshell, nothing’s changed. All we have to show for it is that leaders of nations recognize the urgency to stop temperatures from rising above 1.5 degrees celsius through climate change mitigation, but the COP leaders offer no hopeful plan […]
Ashley Verdugo/ Staff Writer Nikki Haley, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations has announced that she will resign from her position at the end of the year. “We will miss you,” said President Trump in an Oval Office appearance. Haley had told the president about her departure six months ago, but it’s not clear […]
Lara Jakes and Peter Leonard/AP Staff World powers offered broader concessions than ever to Iran in attempts Wednesday keep alive diplomatic channels that seek to rein in the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program and prevent it from building an atomic weapon. The offer was hailed by Saeed Jalili, Iran’s top official at diplomatic talks in Kazakhstan, […]
Mariella Roque/ Staff Writer Last November, the United Nations upgraded Palestine’s “permanent observer” status to “non-member observer state”, allowing Palestine to take part in U.N. meetings and debates, and more importantly, indirectly suggesting that the world body now recognizes Palestine’s statehood. “It’s not the first time the U.N. has done this,” said Murat Altuglu, professor […]
