The ECB is the England and Wales cricket board, responsible for organising domestic cricket within England, as well as the english national cricket team. The english domestic competition is known as 'county cricket', and teams are allowed to field at most two foreign players per game. The ashes is a bi-yearly test series between England and Australia, considered the most important cricketing event for both nations. Australian players often sign for County teams prior to ashes series in England, in order to gain experience playing cricket in english conditions. Sides in the Sheffield Shield (the Australian Domestic Competition) do not sign foreign players.

Reddit currently allows free access to its 'API', which allows other apps to fetch content from reddit to display on its own apps. This has lead to third party apps which allow users to view reddit without using the main reddit client on which reddit serves ads. Recently, reddit announced plans to start charging for the use of its API. These third party apps have announced that were the cost increase to go through, they would be unable to operate. In response to this, a large number of sub-reddits announced that they would shut down in protest at the decision to charge for API access. This initially started as a 48 hour blackout, however many of them have now extended the blackout indefinitely.

The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is the world's largest reserve of petroleum. It is currently heavily depleted. The US has very recently begun to replenish it.

The Principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibility holds that a nations responsibility for tackling climate change is tied to it's historical contribution to climate change i.e. countries who had historically contributed more to climate change, such as nations which industrialised earlier, had the primary responsibility to deal with climate change. It was formalized in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, and has since been influential in the drafting of many international agreements on tackling climate change.

A "right to be forgotten" law would allow anyone to erase all social evidence of their life, including social media posts and profiles, articles referencing them, and photos of them. When activated, this right would delete all publicly accessible information about the activator. It can only be used once.

The Rohingya people are an ethnic minority that live mainly in the northern region of Myanmar's Rakhine State. Situated on the western coast of Myanmar, fishing and agriculture are the major industries in Rakhine State, along with as yet unexplored potential for natural gas and petroleum production.

Captagon is an illegal and addictive amphetamine drug that is manufactured predominantly by the Assad regime in Syria, where it is both sold domestically and exported. As of 7 May 2023, Syria was reinstated as a member of the Arab League, following suspension due to the outbreak of the Syrian civil war. The Gulf region is strictly opposed to the consumption of illegal drugs.

Malaysia has a federal system of government. Historically, the federal and state governments have operated together as essentially a unitary state given the dominance of the Barisan Nasional at both a federal and state level. However, in recent years, the political landscape has changed such that the federal and state governments are often run by seperate parties with seperate agendas. State governments are excluded from imposing the most significant forms of taxation, notably income taxes and excise taxes (taxes on the sale of certain goods). As a result, local governments rely heavily on land and natural rescource taxes. The state governments have control over local land use policy, particularly over forestry. Malaysia has experienced large environmental problems, notably with deforestation and pollution.

Restrictions on foreign investment in China apply to industries such as automotive manufacturing, telecommunications services, transportation, energy, utilities, banks and financial institutions, agriculture, and others. Where an activity is restricted, approval is at the discretion of industry-specific authorities. The authorities may approve of, ask for modification of or deny the investment. Entering into a joint venture with a Chinese party is required for any restricted venture, often with the Chinese party holding a controlling interest.

Resource Royalties involve selling the rights to extract resources to a company for a fixed fee (either per area or per unit mined). Resource Profit Taxes involve taxing the profits made from resource extraction at a significantly higher rate than regular taxes on corporate profit.

The Wagner Group is a Russian private military contractor that is tightly linked to Vladimir Putin, and has been heavily involved in the Ukraine war. Over 30 000 Wagner Group mercenaries have been killed or injured as part of the Ukraine war. The Wagner Group has also conducted operations in Africa and Syria since 2017, experiencing substantial growth in its African operations from 2019 onward.