The Glimpse | Weekly World News #1

The objective of The Glimpse is to offer a brief overview of world news events throughout the week. While not exhaustive, our hope is these stories can offer a small window into global events. We seek to highlight publications, authors and resources readers can find value in and explore on their own. The Glimpse does not have any part in, or take credit for, the writing of the work we share, this publication seeks only to amplify and highlight work we enjoy.

Developments:

• Russia reporting a withdrawal from the port-city of Kherson amid Ukrainian military advances to retake the city and its surrounding territory (BBC / PBS)
• General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden set to meet on Monday on the sidelines of the upcoming G20 meeting in Indonesia (Reuters / Bloomberg)
• The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights calling on the Dominican Republic to stem the rising deportation rate of Haitians as the latter country struggles with waves of violence and an outbreak of cholera (Associated Press / Foreign Policy)
• The Brazilian military reporting no evidence of fraud following its investigation of the country’s recent election. Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pushed for generous social spending as a key policy pillar ahead of his taking office (Australian Broadcasting Corporation / Reuters)
• Egyptian representatives urging conversation at COP27 to center on tackling climate change rather than on Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, whose hunger strike was reportedly interrupted by unspecified medical intervention from authorities (Associated Press)

Read more:

• Quantifying Cyber Conflict: Introducing the European Repository on Cyber Incidents by Matthias Schulze for Lawfare
• Africa’s Past Is Not Its Future by Mo Ibrahim for Foreign Affairs
• In Iran, Pluralism Begins to Take Root by Paymon Azmoudeh for New Lines Magazine

In-depth look:

• The Mining Gap: Critical Minerals and Geopolitical Competition by Gregory Brew and Morgan Bazilian for Just Security

Resource:

This week’s feature is a project from Princeton University tracking harassment and threats leveled at local officials in the U.S.

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