Recent events in which

One probable reason is that the people here immediately suspect that I'm Russian, which in the light of recent events is not a popular thing to be.

有一种可能是这里的人们第一时间把我当成了俄国人，由于最近发生的事件，俄国人在这儿可不是那么受欢迎。

British Petroleum's drilling accident in the Gulf of Mexico this past April is the latest of several recent disastrous events for which the country, or the world, was unprepared.

已经过去的六月中，英国石油公司在墨西哥湾发生的钻探事故是最近令我国乃至世界都措手不及的灾难事件之一。

Coverage of events such as Sudan's recent election, to which seven staff reporters and a score of technicians were assigned, put Western media in the shade.

如苏丹最近的选举报道，派出7名本报记者和20名技术人员的阵容，都让西方媒体相形见绌。