Pope Leo XIV welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a private audience at the Vatican on Wednesday, offering to host both Ukrainian and Russian diplomats to negotiate an end to Moscow’s prolonged invasion of the country.
South Korea sent its National Security Adviser Wi Sung-lac to Washington this week to meet with top officials in the administration of President Donald Trump, telling reporters that his government sought to handle security concerns alongside trade negotiations in anticipation of the August 1 tariff deadline.
Iranian state media promoted a letter written by “a group of 100 Muslim scholars and intellectuals” condemning President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “enemies of God” and warning Muslim leaders that “compromise, normalization of relations, or collaboration” with the U.S. or Israel is haram.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued two arrest warrants for the “supreme leader” of the Taliban, Hibatullah Akhundzada, and the terrorists’ top judge Abdul Hakim Haqqani on Tuesday in response to the Taliban’s systematic abuse and repression of women and girls, which the court deemed a crime against humanity.
The Chinese Communist Party’s anti-corruption “Central Commission for Discipline Inspection” announced on Tuesday that it had launched an investigation into Zhou Xianwang, a longtime Party stooge who served as mayor of Wuhan during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
President Donald Trump published a message on Monday in defense of longtime ally Jair Bolsonaro, who served as president of Brazil during Trump’s first term, accusing the Brazilian judiciary of doing a “terrible thing” by launching multiple criminal investigations against him and banning him from running for office.
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin warned fellow members of the anti-American BRICS coalition during the group’s summit this week to work to strengthen their respective nations as “the liberal globalisation model is becoming obsolete.”
Nearly half a million Afghans have returned from Iran since June 1, the United Nations migration office revealed.
Chinese regime-approved experts quoted by the country’s state media outlets warned Beijing-friendly billionaire Elon Musk that “entrenched systems cannot be uprooted by idealism alone” on Sunday after Musk announced that he had created a new political party.
The BRICS security and trade coalition is concluding its annual summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Monday, publishing a “declaration” notably missing some of the most strident anti-American policies it previously promoted, including the creation of a unified currency to challenge the U.S. dollar.
Leftist South Korean President Lee Jae-myung told reporters during a press conference on Thursday that he was hoping to improve Seoul’s relationship to communist North, and its patrons in China and Russia, in pursuit of a definitive state of peace on the peninsula.
The members of the South Korean boy band BTS – by many metrics the most internationally successful music acts in the history of their nation – announced this week that they would work on a new album in the United States, expected to be released in spring 2026.
The Taliban terrorist organization’s official ambassador to Moscow, Gul Hassan Hassan, assumed his position in the Russian capital this week in representation of the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.”
China, through its “China Tibetology Research Center,” published a screed on Wednesday condemning a declaration by the Dalai Lama that only his office will have power to find his successor after his passing, asserting that the Communist Party regime has final authority over the Buddhist leader.
The government of Turkey offered a warm welcome to a delegation representing the jihadist terrorist organization Hamas on Wednesday, expressing support for its cause and accusing the government of Israel of “genocide” for engaging in self-defense operations against the group.
The Chinese regime propaganda outlet Global Times published an article on Monday amplifying pro-China “green” energy personality Elon Musk’s increasingly hostile criticisms of President Donald Trump.
President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran, who is subordinate to elderly “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, signed a parliamentary bill into law on Wednesday ending all cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The president of Iceland’s National Broadcaster (RÚV), Stefán Jón Hafstein, published a commentary on Tuesday calling for Israel to be banned from the Eurovision Song Contest – and suggested that, in the event that the ban was impossible, the contest could allow Israeli singers to participate without their national flags.
A report published by the World Health Organization on Monday found that as many as 871,000 deaths a year could be linked to loneliness, emphasizing that social connection has a direct correlation to increased positive health outcomes.
The Lebanon-based Iranian proxy terrorist organization Hezbollah held multiple events on Monday in solidarity with Tehran, declaring that it would continue in the “just and divinely inspired battle” against Israel and America.
North Korea’s communist dictator Kim Jong-un appeared on the nation’s state propaganda broadcasts on Monday at an event honoring the country’s soldiers killed in the ongoing Russia invasion of Ukraine, in which at least 15,000 North Koreans are estimated to be fighting.
The government of China published its annual Communist Party statistics on Monday, revealing a modest 1.1 percent increase in the number of official members and a decline in the number of members under 35.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who led the stalled nuclear deal talks with the United States, demanded in a letter to the United Nations on Sunday that the global body help Tehran seek “reparation” for the damage caused by American airstrikes on his country’s illicit nuclear sites.
An Iranian border governor revealed this week, Afghan news outlets relayed, that Iran has dramatically increased the rate of mass deportations of Afghans, resulting in over 8,000 repatriations a day.
A judge in Argentina ruled on Thursday that the country could place ten Iranian and Lebanese citizens – including the recently appointed head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – on trial in absentia for their suspected roles in the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA).
South Korean police detained six Americans on Friday caught with over 1,000 bottles carrying rice, Bibles, and American money that they reportedly intended to send across the sea to North Korea.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi suggested in an interview on Thursday that Iran will be demanding “compensation for damages” to its illicit nuclear development sites in any future diplomatic engagements with America after President Donald Trump approved airstrikes targeting the facilities.
Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) reintroduced a bill that would affirm that the W.H.O. pandemic agreement is a treaty subject to Senate approval.
The Islamic theocracy of Iran stated on Wednesday that it would work to preserve its illicit nuclear program “under any circumstances,” denying that the American airstrikes on key uranium enrichment facilities had marked an end to its nuclear ambitions.
China hosted the defense ministers of Russia and Iran – alongside Belarus, Pakistan, and Kyrgyzstan – on Wednesday for a meeting on global security in the aftermath of the most destructive military engagement against Tehran in recent memory.
Pope Leo XIV told Catholic believers during a weekly event on Wednesday that he welcomed the news of a ceasefire between Israel and Iran with “hope,” advising the nations to abandon plans for “revenge” and embrace a path to long-term peace.
Iran’s rubber-stamp parliament greenlit legislation banning the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from working with the country.
The South China Morning Post, citing anonymous sources, reported on Tuesday that genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping will be skipping the upcoming BRICS summit in Brazil due to a “scheduling conflict,” the first time in the history of the coalition that Xi would be absent.
The Chinese Foreign Minister offered to “work with the international community” on Tuesday to help establish peace in the Middle East — after President Donald Trump announced that he had brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.
The Islamist dictatorship of Iran is facing a potentially existential conflict after President Donald Trump approved airstrikes on Saturday targeting some of its most productive uranium enrichment facilities – and the BRICS coalition that it belongs to is facing the first geopolitical crisis truly challenging its relevance on the world stage.
The head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, threatened “foolish and ignorant” President Donald Trump with an attack on the U.S. on Tuesday, a message at odds with Trump’s announcement Iran and Israel had agreed to a ceasefire.
The Chinese Communist Party, alongside Russia and Pakistan, spearheaded efforts on Sunday to pass a resolution at the United Nations Security Council condemning attacks on Iran’s illicit nuclear facilities.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday, who condemned the ongoing campaign against Iran’s illicit nuclear program as an “unprovoked aggression” by Israel and America.
The genocidal jihadist terror organization Hamas issued a statement late on Saturday condemning President Donald Trump for greenlighting a series of airstrikes on Iran’s largest uranium enrichment sites, calling it a “dangerous escalation.”
President Donald Trump announced in a White House address on Saturday night that the United States had conducted “massive precision strikes” to destroy Iran’s three key nuclear enrichment sites, declaring them “completely and totally obliterated.”
