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A cargo ship in front of a port in San Juan, Puerto Rico, after the area was hit by Hurricane Maria. Carlos Garcia Rawllins/Reuters Credit President Donald Trump waives U.S. shipping cargo restrictions to help hurricane-ravaged in Puerto Rico on Thursday, September 28, 2017. Written from the twitter post of White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump has authorized the Jones Act be waived for Puerto Rico and it will go into effect immediately. Responding to a request from Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello, the decision briefly lifts the Jones Act’s to halt foreign-flagged vessels from  grabbing and conveying fuel between U.S. ports.  Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017 has left it without power and with little access to fuel and supplies. Due to this prior, the waiver desperately needed to deliver supplies more quickly and at less cost. Nonetheless, waiver was not a prior solution for Puerto Rico seeing that there were...

South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during a press conference marking his first 100 days in office at the presidential house in Seoul, Aug. 17, 2017. Source: VOA News -  https://www.voanews.com/a/south-korea-to-send-aid-to-north-korea/4038060.html Despite the tensions over North Korea’s escalating nuclear and military threat, South Korea’s approved to send $8 million humanitarian aid to North Korea and the exact timing will be announced later . The geopolitical tension within both neighbouring countries, does not affect the aid policy that made after a meeting of government officials chaired by Unification Minister Cho Myong-gyon. The exact specification amount of aid will be announced, yet the disapproval from both international communities and the people of the South, has dragged down the decision to sending aid to the North and need some consideration due to political reasons.  In some point, what Moon have said that aid was something to be co...

All across Catalonia, thousands are occupying polling stations prior to Sunday’s referendum for the region’s independence. Activists and citizens alike have gathered in unity, but also in fear of the polls’ closing. The Spanish government declared the vote illegal and sent officers to disband the stations by Sunday. However, it hasn’t stopped the thousands from setting up picnics and movie screenings in an effort to stop the regional officers from closing the stations. The regional officers have been told to refrain from violence as they meet the growing crowd of thousands people, adamant to go ahead with the referendum. Many fear this could be the culmination of the tensions between Spain’s central government and her autonomous region; which has grown worse since the Madrid curtailed much Catalonia’s powers via a constitutional court decision in 2010. Source: Associated Press (link) Reuters (link) BBC (link)

Up coming year is the ideal time for EU to prepare a tight knit future reformation to the bloc, rather than to extend the discussion of divorce negotiations with the U.K. Then where will the British politics heading to? “Quite frankly I don’t know what’s going to happen.” - Nigel Farage, Brexit Campaigner. EU flag Source: http://www.snopes.com/eu-flag-star-brexit/ As Emmanuel Macron, French President said, 2018 is the ideal time for EU to seize the moment to gain economy development and increased internal confidence to push the bloc through reforms before European elections 2019. Furthermore, in two weeks time, Donald Tusk, the EU Council President, would be presenting a political agenda reconciling Macron’s views on how EU should maintain the global relevant with EU nations that not want to grow too quickly, through the embracement of joint budget, military forces and tax harmonization. Tusk also promises to seek the “real solutions to real pro...

Amidst the North Korean crisis and the issue of an aging population in Japan, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe decided to call for a snap election next month. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was quoted saying, “I’ll demonstrate strong leadership and stand at the forefront to face a national crisis. This is my responsibility as a leader and my mission as prime minister.” The decision to call for a snap election is regarded by many critics to be a gamble as Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is predicted to gain only 27.7 percent support as shown by a Kyodo news agency survey. However, results aren’t decided by polls and Abe’s ratings have gone up to 50 percent from 30 percent since the start of the rising tensions between Japan and North Korea. The increase in ratings are due to Abe’s formidable display of leadership in handling the crisis, which he promises to continue if he were to win the upcoming election. The election will see Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike’s newly...