Taliban “supreme leader” Hibatullah Akhundzada recently approved a novel criminal code, multiple outlets reported this week, that dramatically expands the legal ability for men to physically abuse women and children and provides for the creation of a formal “slave” class in the country.
Prosecutors in Brazil shelved an investigation on Thursday into conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro on charges of “genocide” for his handling of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.
President Donald Trump is expected to chair the first formal meeting of the Board of Peace, an organization initially established to help stabilize the Gaza Strip, on Thursday in Washington.
The European Commission (EC) announced an investigation on Tuesday into the Chinese “fast fashion” shopping application Shein over a variety of potential violations, including allegedly “addictive” interfaces to abuse customers and the sale of “childlike” sex dolls on the site.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez met with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on Wednesday.
The Congress of Peru voted on Tuesday to impeach and remove President José Jerí, leaving the presidency vacant just two months before a scheduled presidential election Jerí was not running in.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declared on Monday that he had arrived in Geneva, Switzerland, with “real ideas” for an agreement between his country and the United States as Tehran and Washington tiptoe towards a renewed conversation on the former’s illicit nuclear program.
Genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping offered an optimistic message to mark the Lunar New Year, which began on Tuesday, welcoming the Year of the Horse and encouraging Chinese people to embrace the “vigor, strength, and resilience” that are the hallmarks of that animal.
Chinese state media outlets confirmed Monday eight people died in eastern Jiangsu province on Sunday after “improper” detonations near a fireworks store caused a massive explosion and fire.
North Korea’s Kim Jong-un participated in an inauguration ceremony for a neighborhood built for families of soldiers killed fighting Ukraine.
Alejandro Robles Gómez, Secretary for Mexicans Living Abroad for the ruling leftist Morena Party, lamented in an interview on Sunday that he fears that his comments against “Americanized” Mexicans highlighted in Peter Schweizer’s blockbuster exposé ‘The Invisible Coup’ may result in him not being allowed into the United States.
The ruling Afghan Taliban, through top spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, declared in an interview on Sunday it is prepared to offer its “full support” to Iran in the event of an American attack.
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau warned Cuban Communist Party thugs in a message on Thursday that American authorities had identified those participating in actos de repudio (“acts of repudiation”), targeted mob humiliation attacks, against America’s top diplomat in the country.
The Communist Party of China declared on Thursday that it “strongly opposes and deplores” statements by the U.S. State Department’s Western Hemisphere Bureau lamenting a court case that could bring one of Peru’s most critical ports under control of a Party-linked corporate entity.
A federal court in Lagos, Nigeria, convicted two Chinese citizens on Wednesday on charges of “cyber-terrorism,” accused and pleading guilty of participating in a massive “cryptocurrency, investment and romance” fraud scheme.
South Korea believes communist North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has begun the process of formalizing his daughter as his successor.
A report in a Kremlin-friendly publication claimed that the Russian government is “expected” to send oil to Cuba.
A violent brawl erupted in the Turkish Parliament on Wednesday immediately before the swearing-in of Akın Gürlek as the nation’s new justice minister, the result of opposition lawmakers arguing that Gürlek was an inappropriate choice for the role.
House Republicans, led by Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Riley Moore (R-WV), introduced a bill on Monday calling for the State Department to offer comprehensive reports on American actions to protect Christians persecuted by a host jihadist terror threats in Nigeria, as well as efforts to convince the Nigerian government to take the threat seriously.
The largest airlines in Canada announced on Monday and Tuesday that they would be suspending flights to Cuba for the immediate future as a result of the Castro regime announcing it no longer had any jet fuel.
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a message on Sunday that it would heighten monitoring for a variety of diseases in anticipation of the Lunar New Year on February 17, including respiratory diseases such as Wuhan coronavirus and the bat-borne Nipah virus.
China defended the sentencing of Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai, a Christian and staunch anti-communist, to 20 years in prison.
Chinese state media agencies confirmed a massive explosion taking place at a facility owned by a biotechnology company killed at least eight people in Shanxi, northern China this weekend.
China’s Global Times state propaganda newspaper proclaimed that America was besieged by “deep divisions” in an article on the Winter Olympics.
The Communist Party of Cuba warned airlines operating in the country that it would soon run out of jet fuel, reports revealed on Monday, potentially lasting through the middle of March.
Conservative President of Panama José Raúl Mulino issued a stern warning to the Chinese Communist Party on Thursday not to expect its threats against his country to be tolerated, responding to browbeating from Beijing following a ruling against Panama Canal contracts signed with a regime-linked corporation.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, welcoming his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodríguez, offered China’s support “to the best of our ability.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio affirmed in an essay published on Friday that the administration of President Donald Trump would not pursue a new nuclear arms reduction agreement with only Russia, arguing that China’s “rapid and opaque” nuclear buildup made such a deal “obsolete.”
Three separate attacks this week have left untold dead – at least 162 and counting – in Kwara state, western Nigeria, many of the victims reportedly Muslims slaughtered by an Islamic State offshoot for failing to accept its jihadist ideology.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, held a “virtual meeting” on Wednesday in which they celebrated their countries’ close bonds and vowed to expand “high-level exchanges,” trade, and diplomacy.
The business outlet Bloomberg reported on Thursday that its anonymous sources affirmed that the Chinese Communist Party had ordered an end to “projects” in Panama following that nation’s top court ruling that a deal granting outsized power to a Hong Kong corporation over the Panama Canal was unconstitutional.
The Chinese Communist Party finds “intolerable” the idea that the highest authority in a church should be God, a jailed pastor’s daughter said.
The Chinese state propaganda newspaper Global Times celebrated on Tuesday that two clothing brands had disappeared products featuring the Nintendo game franchise Pokémon from their Chinese stores following the advertisement of a Pokémon event at the Yasukuni Shrine.
America’s top diplomat in Cuba, Chargé d’Affaires Mike Hammer, was the target of multiple “acts of repudiation” this weekend – ritualistic communist mob attacks that target individuals anathema to the regime.
Indian Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri appeared to confirm President Donald Trump’s claim that New Delhi would be expanding Venezuelan oil purchases in comments on Monday, stating that India was already buying Venezuelan oil and has refineries specially outfitted to handle crude from that country.
Locals in multiple communities throughout Nigeria reported a wave of violence believed to be attributed to jihadist actors over the weekend, including a particularly deadly suspected Boko Haram attack leaving at least 25 dead. Reports of such attacks surfaced in
The Dalai Lama, leader of Tibetan Buddhism, won a Grammy Award on Sunday night for narrating an audiobook featuring his reflections.
Human rights organizations reacted with outrage and disgust in the past week following a friendly visit to China by the secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Hissein Brahim Taha, in which he declared that his group would “continue to firmly support China” in its genocide of Muslims in occupied East Turkistan.
Members of the Alawite community in Syria face “constant” threats of violence, including “large-scale massacres,” abductions, and mob attacks, the head of the Alawites Association of the United States told Breitbart News, urging President Donald Trump to pressure the country’s leadership to respect the rights of minorities.
The government-run Syrian Arab News Agency confirmed that Syria has been elected as vice-chair of a crimes against humanity UN committee.
