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…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 7 May – Sunday 14 May: Last Sunday, foreign ministers of the Arab League member states agreed to reinstate Syria as a full member of the organisation…
The World That Was
Sunday 30 April – Sunday 7 May: Adrian Olivier, In the early hours of Wednesday morning, two drones targeted the Kremlin complex of buildings in Moscow, the attack being caught…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 23 April – Sunday 30 April On Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden finally and formally announced his running for a second term as President of the United…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, In China, quarter 1 GDP growth has been higher than expected at 4.5% beating the estimates of 4% growth from a Reuters poll of economists. Chinese consumers went…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier Sunday 9 April – Sunday 16 April On Monday there was a mass shooting at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky. A lone gunman who was a…