Foreign relations

The U.S. reopened its embassy in Havana, Cuba in 2015. Then in 2016, officials working overseas at the embassy were the first to report strange symptoms that would eventually become known as ‘Havana syndrome.’ Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images)Yet again, another report based on U.S. intelligence sources has re-re-realleged that the mysterious “Havana syndrome” wasn’t brought on by some foreign adversary wielding strange energy weapons. As to any other possibilities for hundreds of U.S. officials experiencing a…

Tourists ride classic convertible cars on the Malecon beside the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, on Oct. 3, 2017. Photo: Desmond Boylan, File (AP)In the summer of 2017, reports of American and Canadian diplomats developing an unusual illness while stationed at their embassies in Havana, Cuba first emerged.These cases, which actually began in late 2016, seemed to follow a similar pattern: People would experience acute symptoms like nausea, headaches and hearing loss, which often appeared after they had heard strange noises…

Some of the first nuclear bombs were tested off the coast of the Bikini Atoll in July 1946.Image: Keystone (Getty Images)Everyday it appears that we’re spiraling closer to the apocalypse. Today, that future seems a little closer than we thought as United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned today that humanity is “one misunderstanding, one miscalculation” away from being wiped off the face of the planet by a nuclear holocaust. *nervous laughter*Members of the United Nations have kicked off the beginning of…

The International Space Station is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2030.Image: NASAEarlier this week, Russia’s new space chief threatened to leave the ISS after 2024, but new statements made to NASA suggests the country won’t leave the space station until at least 2028. Amidst ongoing geopolitical tensions between countries that work on the International Space Station, Russia is doing its best to flex its muscles. On Tuesday, newly appointed head of Roscosmos Yury Borisov told president Valdimir Putin that Russia plans…