Chinese dictator Xi Jinping humiliated “climate envoy” John Kerry this week by holding a two-day “national conference on ecological and environmental protection” in Beijing without inviting his American guest.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia signed two contracts with Turkey’s Baykar corporation on Tuesday to acquire combat drones, the latest in a series of big sales for Baykar as the low cost and outstanding performance of its weapons in Ukraine pique the interest of governments around the world.
Russian-controlled officials installed in occupied Crimea, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014, said Wednesday that a massive fire at a military base in Kirovske forced thousands of people to evacuate and shut down a major highway nearby.
The awkward drama over if South Africa would fulfill its treaty obligations to the International Criminal Court (ICC) by arresting Russian leader Vladimir Putin during the upcoming BRICS summit in Johannesburg was apparently resolved on Tuesday.
A Russian paramilitary group called COSI said in a Sunday post on the messaging platform Telegram that hundreds of “experienced” Wagner Group mercenaries are pouring into the Central African Republic (CAR) to “ensure security” ahead of a July 30 referendum that could give President Faustin-Archange Touadera a third term in office.
Moscow police told Russian state media on Tuesday they have arrested a man who tried to set the tomb of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin on fire with a Molotov cocktail.
The United Nations Command announced on Tuesday that communist North Korea detained an American citizen after he reportedly crossed the Military Demarcation Line (MDL), the border between North and South Korea. A senior U.S. official told Fox News on Tuesday morning that the individual is an American soldier.
During a state visit to Rwanda on Sunday, Hungarian President Katalin Novak signed an agreement allowing Rwandan nuclear energy technicians to receive training from Hungarian universities.
Smoke from the massive wildfires in Canada is drifting across the border into the United States, setting off air quality alerts for about 70 million people in a dozen states, including cities like Chicago, Detroit, and New York.
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Monday that a growing number of “private” Chinese companies are interested in buying censorship artificial intelligence (AI) from the state-run People’s Daily.
China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday claimed birth rates have collapsed, putting China into a demographic death spiral, because “pedophobia” has been spread across the Internet in a sinister conspiracy to make young couples afraid of having children.
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Thursday declared a “state of emergency on food security” due to swiftly rising prices. Nigeria is the largest economy on the African continent, although it’s per capita income is about half of the number two economy, Egypt.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s complaint about the slow pace of a NATO invitation for his country annoyed the U.S. and other allies.
The Kosovo parliament erupted in a melee on Thursday after a lawmaker from the opposition party approached the podium and threw water on Prime Minister Albin Kurti, who was giving a speech about reducing tensions between Serbs and Albanians.
The U.N. International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimated on Wednesday that the number of people displaced by the vicious factional war in Sudan has exceeded 3 million, with some 2.4 of them displaced internally and 730,000 crossing into other countries to seek refuge.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi paid a rare visit to Africa this week, with stops planned in Kenya, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. While in Uganda on Wednesday, Raisi praised President Yoweri Museveni for passing a law that increased punishment for homosexual activity, all the way up to capital punishment in some cases.
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China sent several large formations of combat aircraft toward Taiwan on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Philippines Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) announced on Wednesday it will allow the upcoming Barbie film starring Margot Robbie to be released, but only if a “cartoonish” map that resembles China’s “Nine-Dash Line” propaganda map of the South China Sea is digitally blurred out.
Chinese state media on Tuesday pounced on U.S. shipments of cluster munitions to Ukraine as proof the American-led “rules-based international order” is just a “mafia-style” hypocritical racket.
President Joe Biden met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania on Tuesday and praised the authoritarian Turkish leader for having the “courage” to stop blocking Sweden from joining the alliance.
Italian luxury jeweler Bulgari apologized to China on Tuesday for listing Taiwan as an independent country in a drop-down menu on its website.
Data produced by British-American financial analysis firm Refinitv on Wednesday found China’s leading tech companies lost about $1.1 trillion in market value during the Chinese Communist Party’s two-year regulatory crackdown on the industry.
The United Nations marked World Population Day on Tuesday, publishing a forecast that the Earth’s population will hit 9.7 billion by the year 2050 and surpass 10 billion before the end of the century.
Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Tuesday reported troubling news on the state of mental health in China. Even the Communist regime’s official statistics show a quarter of the young population at risk from depression and mental illness, coupled with one of the developed world’s lowest ratios of psychiatrists to population.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to be unhappy with reports that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit currently underway in Vilnius, Lithuania will culminate with an offer of increased support for Ukraine against the Russian invasion, but not an offer of full membership in NATO.
Taiwan-based tech giant Foxconn announced Monday its withdrawal from a $19.5 billion joint semiconductor manufacturing deal with Indian metal and energy company Vedanta.
The Times of India (TOI) reported on Monday that a blockade on food and medical supplies by the valley-dwelling Hindu majority of the Manipur province is starving the hill-dwelling Kuki Christian tribes, thousands of whom have been displaced from their homes into refugee camps.
China’s state-run Global Times struggled to contain its editorial blood pressure on Sunday as it reported the leaders of South Korea and Japan will attend this week’s NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, for the second year in a row.
Peruvian officials on Sunday announced they had intercepted 23 Afghans in the custody of migrant traffickers operating along the border with Brazil. The migrants included four children, one of them a two-month-old baby.
The latest in a string of knife and bomb attacks on Chinese schools took place in the southern province of Guangdong on Monday morning, as a 25-year-old man used a knife to assault a privately operated kindergarten. A city government spokeswoman said a teacher, two parents, and three students were killed in the attack.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen arrived in Beijing on Thursday afternoon, beginning a four-day visit that included a meeting with Premier Li Qiang on Friday.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping paid a visit to the headquarters of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command in Nanjing on Thursday, encouraging his troops to keep up military pressure on Taiwan even as U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was arriving in Beijing for an official visit.
The government of Taiwan announced on Wednesday that it will open a new representative office in the financial hub of Mumbai, establishing its third diplomatic office in India.
South Korean pediatricians are exiting the profession as birth rates decline, creating a hospital environment where few children are being born, but there still are not enough doctors to care for them.
A report published by the Business & Human Rights Resource Center (BHRRC) on Wednesday accused Chinese companies of more than a hundred human rights and environmental abuses at the mines where China produces much of the world’s supply of “green energy” minerals, such as lithium, cobalt, copper, and various rare earths.
The Philippine government is contemplating a ban of the film “Barbie” over reports it displays China’s “Nine-Dash Line” propaganda map.
Alexander Lukashenko, the despotic president of Belarus, said on Thursday that Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin is back in Russia.
The U.S. Air Force said Wednesday that three Russian fighter jets harassed three American drones during a mission against Islamic State targets in Syria.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen met with Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng on Monday, ahead of Yellen’s scheduled trip to Beijing this weekend. According to Chinese state media, Xie strove to send a “clear and positive message” that China is ready to improve bilateral relations.
A video showing a member of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) urinating on an indigenous worker in the state of Madhya Pradesh went viral on Tuesday, sparking social media outrage and prompting the arrest of the man featured in the clip.
