The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 16 July – Sunday 23 July: On Sunday, Spain’s 20-year-old Carlos Alcaraz defeated seven-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic in an incredible four-hour and 42-minute final on the…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 9 July – Sunday 16 July: On Sunday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen concluded a 4-day trip to China in which she met with China’s top economic…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 2 July – Sunday 9 July: In the early hours of Monday, Israel launched a drone strike on the refugee camp of Jenin in the West Bank.…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 18 June – Sunday 25 June: It has been a particularly memorable week… After arriving on Sunday in Beijing in the first trip by a U.S. official…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 11 June – Sunday 18 June: On Monday, Italian media tycoon, politician, and billionaire, Silvio Berlusconi, who served as prime minister in 4 governments between 1994 and…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 4 June – Sunday 11 June: On Sunday OPEC+ members (OPEC and 10 other countries, the most important of which is Russia) agreed to a new output…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 28 May – Sunday 4 June: On Sunday, Belarus’ leader since 1994, Alexander Lukashenko (a former director of a state farm) bizarrely announced “nuclear weapons for everyone”…
Battle of Bakhmut
Adrian Olivier, When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, part of Russia’s war aims were to capture the region known as the Donbas, made up of the two oblasts…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 21 May – Sunday 28 May: The largest battle in Europe since the Second World War came to a close on Sunday with Russian mercenaries of the…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 14 May – Sunday 21 May: On Sunday Turkish voters went to the polls in their 22nd presidential election. With the votes counted, neither candidate had the…