
An opponent of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who was reportedly complicit in two separate coup attempts against a previous president, has filed a motion to impeach Duterte, accusing him of violating the constitution through the rampant use of extrajudicial killing and corruption.
by Frances Martel16 Mar 2017, 7:45 PM PDT0

Venezuela’s socialist government has imposed new draconian measures on its bakeries intended to lay the blame for the intense food shortages the country is experiencing on craven small business owners. Bakers who do not adhere to these rules, the vice president announced this week, will risk having their business seized by the government.
by Frances Martel16 Mar 2017, 7:21 PM PDT0

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has arrived in Tokyo, Japan, for the first leg of his three-nation tour of Asia, emphasizing the need for a new approach to curbing North Korea and pressuring China to take a stronger economic stand against the rogue regime in Pyongyang.
by Frances Martel16 Mar 2017, 6:00 PM PDT0

Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, the former leftist president of Brazil, testified for the first time on Tuesday before a federal court as part of the sprawling investigation into a multi-million-dollar corruption scheme at state-owned oil company Petrobras.
by Frances Martel15 Mar 2017, 8:51 PM PDT0

A coalition of 42 mullahs have issued a fatwa against Indian Idol contestant Nahid Afrin — a teen Muslim singer who has used her reality TV celebrity to condemn the Islamic State — because she is scheduled to perform at a venue near a mosque.
by Frances Martel15 Mar 2017, 8:20 PM PDT0

Several reports published Wednesday indicate that the Trump administration may be looking to expand sanctions against Chinese businesses who continue to do business with the fellow communist government of North Korea.
by Frances Martel15 Mar 2017, 6:23 PM PDT0

King Salman of Saudi Arabia has departed Japan and arrived in Beijing where he and President Xi Jinping are expected to discuss expanding economic ties between their two nations, shortly after Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman completed his visit to the White House Tuesday.
by Frances Martel15 Mar 2017, 6:01 PM PDT0

A pregnant woman waiting in an outdoor line to purchase rationed groceries in socialist Venezuela suddenly went into labor last week, giving birth surrounded by a crowd in the middle of the street.
by Frances Martel14 Mar 2017, 9:41 PM PDT0

Over the weekend, the Chinese Education Minister announced an initiative to attract colleges to “political theory” indoctrination at Communist Party-run universities, a study that has plummeted in popularity due to China’s exposure to the outside world.
by Frances Martel14 Mar 2017, 6:16 PM PDT0

The head of Turkey’s secular Republican People’s Party (CHP) is accusing Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of not sufficiently punishing the Netherlands for barring Turkish government officials from attending a pro-Erdogan rally, accusing Erdogan of being “just talk.”
by Frances Martel14 Mar 2017, 11:27 AM PDT0

Multiple news outlets have confirmed that Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Asia and Australia next month. He is expected to visit Japan, China, and Indonesia, among other stops.
by Frances Martel14 Mar 2017, 8:07 AM PDT0

Upon assuming the presidency, many observers expressed reservations about what a Trump administration foreign policy would look like. More than any other representative of President Donald Trump’s government, United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley has answered those critics.
by Frances Martel14 Mar 2017, 5:21 AM PDT0

Brazilian President Michel Temer confessed in an interview with the Portuguese-language magazine Veja that he and his family moved out of the nation’s Alvorada Palace, the official presidential residence, over bad energy and “ghosts” that kept him and First Lady Marcela Temer from sleeping well at night.
by Frances Martel13 Mar 2017, 9:01 PM PDT0

Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro once again attempted to send a message of cooperation to American President Donald Trump last week, warning Trump against an unspecified “they” in an English-language message that appeared to stump online outlets and social media users.
by Frances Martel13 Mar 2017, 8:08 PM PDT0

A mob of supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan congregated Sunday to squeeze and mutilate oranges as a protest against the Netherlands, which has prevented Turkish government officials from attending pro-Erdogan rallies on Dutch soil.
by Frances Martel13 Mar 2017, 6:09 PM PDT0

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte walked back concerns about China’s presence in an undisputed Philippine South China Sea territory on Monday, calling reports of tension “exaggerated” while demanding the navy “tell them straight that this is ours” by constructing new “structures” meant to ward off Chinese territorial challenges.
by Frances Martel13 Mar 2017, 10:39 AM PDT0

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights is set to review Communist Cuba’s record of forced disappearances. It is the first time such a review will occur following the death of dictator Fidel Castro, and it comes at a time in which dissidents warn oppressive police behavior against them is on the rise.
by Frances Martel10 Mar 2017, 8:08 PM PDT0

South Korea’s Park Geun-hye has become the first president in its history to be ousted from power via impeachment following allegations of granting inappropriate government access to a senior member of a pseudo-religious organization.
by Frances Martel10 Mar 2017, 7:02 PM PDT0

The socialist government of Venezuela is reportedly struggling to meet the demands of its citizenry in obtaining passports, both to flee the country and to replace their expired passports abroad.
by Frances Martel10 Mar 2017, 6:11 PM PDT0

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan will land in Moscow Friday for “high-level talks” expected to concern both economic development and the two countries’ roles in Syria, where Turkey’s opposition to Syrian Kurdish militias has strained relations with Russia.
by Frances Martel9 Mar 2017, 7:59 PM PDT0

America’s United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley told reporters Wednesday that, while she supported peace talks for all sides of the Syrian civil war, the United States believed it imperative to “get Iran and their proxies” out of the country to maintain longstanding peace.
by Frances Martel9 Mar 2017, 7:09 PM PDT0

Watchdog groups and U.S. government officials say the Islamic State’s leadership in its caliphate “capital,” Raqqa, are relocating to Deir Ezzor as a coalition of Syrian rebels, Kurdish militias, Turkish soldiers, and U.S. troops prepare to battle for the liberation of the southern Syrian city.
by Frances Martel9 Mar 2017, 5:57 PM PDT0

The Chinese government has published its semi-annual human rights report on the United States, condemning America for a variety of alleged “human rights violations” which include widespread gun ownership, “angry” voters in the 2016 elections, and “gunshots lingering in people’s ears behind the Statue of Liberty.”
by Frances Martel9 Mar 2017, 5:23 PM PDT0

Hamell Santiago Maz Hernández, a Cuban dissident awaiting trial in the nation’s most notorious maximum security prison on a charge of “disrespect” for the Revolution, died of mysterious circumstances in late February. Now, fellow dissidents at the prison fear eating government-issued food, worried that the government poisoned their colleague.
by Frances Martel8 Mar 2017, 7:54 PM PDT0

A Chinese state propaganda outlet has threatened to make South Korea “feel the pain” for proceeding with the installation of an anti-North Korea missile system, while Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi predicts an imminent “head-on” collision between Pyongyang and Washington.
by Frances Martel8 Mar 2017, 5:32 PM PDT0

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s office has announced the official commutation of sentences for 27 prisoners deemed too ill or elderly to justify keeping in prison, the first of what the president’s office hopes will be more than 100 such pardons.
by Frances Martel8 Mar 2017, 11:36 AM PDT0

Thousands of women in Nigeria took the streets of the northern capital Maiduguri this weekend to protest the government’s inability to eradicate the Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram, which has not ceased in committing mass abductions, rapes, and murders since the government claimed victory over them in 2015.
by Frances Martel8 Mar 2017, 7:19 AM PDT0

A priest in Venezuela has requested that Christians in his country separate their food waste from other garbage and label it to help starving Venezuelans find waste to eat without having to dig through noxious inedible garbage.
by Frances Martel7 Mar 2017, 8:11 PM PDT0

Cuban dictator Raúl Castro has publicly condemned major policy initiatives in U.S. President Donald Trump’s agenda, including the “irrational” call to build a wall on the southern border and “extreme” and “selfish” trade policies that would benefit American workers.
by Frances Martel7 Mar 2017, 6:02 PM PDT0

A militia the Associated Press identifies as a coalition of “Islamic militants and former rebels” has seized two major oil ports in Libya and threatened to take the nation’s second-largest city, Benghazi, out of the hands of the secular, internationally-recognized government’s allied military force.
by Frances Martel7 Mar 2017, 5:03 PM PDT0