Ibrahim Traore, leader of Burkina Faso’s military junta, signed a deal with Rosatom, Russian state nuclear corporation, to construct a nuclear power plant on Friday. The construction of the plant is Burkina Faso’s latest effort to increase access to electricity for the 79 percent of their citizens currently living without power.
On Oct. 25, Hurricane Otis struck the city of Acapulco on the Pacific coast of Mexico, leaving the country with landslides, flooding, and devastation, becoming the second-strongest storm in Mexico's history.
On Friday October 4, 2024, the European Union (EU) finished voting on the proposed tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs). While countries like Hungary and Germany vocally disagreed to this proposition, a majority of EU countries had already voted in favor of the tariffs. The tariffs are only the beginning of a potential long-lasting economic cold war between China and the West.
