Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has caused a stir by appointing Margaux Justiniano Uson, a blogger known for posting “sexy” videos on social media, his new assistant secretary of the Presidential Communication Operations Office. “Mocha,” as she is known, will run the federal government’s social media.
Parents of the girls and young women kidnapped by Islamic State affiliate Boko Haram from Chibok, Nigeria, in 2014 are still waiting to see the 82 released as part of a trade with the terrorist group this weekend. The government claims it is still conducting physical and mental health evaluations, ensuring that none of the girls will pose a danger to society once freed.
Venezuela released public health statistics for the first time in nearly two years this week, revealing skyrocketing infant and maternal mortality rates and a boom in the spread of diseases like malaria. Diphtheria, a disease Venezuela had fully eradicated by the 1990s, has returned.
The government of Turkey has responded with ire to the news that the Trump administration would supply heavy arms to the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG/YPJ), calling the move “unacceptable” and demanding the White House “put a stop to this wrong.”
The Chinese government has reached out to new South Korean President Moon Jae-in seeking a closer bond with Seoul, likely at Washington’s expense, urging Moon to “join hands with China” economically and scale back military expansion under his predecessor, Park Geun-hye.
Having lost the support of many civilian judges across the country, the government of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is reportedly sending civilian protesters before military tribunals to face charges of “terrorism” and “inciting rebellion,” or sedition.
An NGO operating clandestinely in Cuba reported this week that the number of political prisoners held on the island doubled between April 2016 and April 2017, following reports of yet another mass arrest of dissidents at an airport in Havana.
The Turkish government is seeking over 3,600 life sentences, nearly 3,000 additional years in prison, and a 2.2 million-day additional sentence for Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish cleric exiled in the United States who Ankara blames for the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The socialist government of Venezuela has denied claims by opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski that police have arrested 85 soldiers for refusing to follow orders from dictator Nicolás Maduro. The claim precedes a call to arms from Leopoldo López, the nation’s most prominent political dissident, who has called for soldiers to cease attacks on unarmed protesters.
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and Vice President Mike Pence met with Venezuela’s National Assembly President Julio Borges this weekend to discuss the opposition’s attempt to re-establish democratic order in that nation following eighteen years of socialist rule.
A national poll released Monday showed Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s popularity holding steady, with 80 percent of respondents saying they have “much trust” in the controversial strongman.
The communist government of North Korea published a “report” on Friday in which it accused the CIA and its South Korea affiliate, the Intelligence Service (IS), of planning to use a “bio-chemical” weapon to attack its “supreme leadership.”
Days after the government of Venezuela published a bizarre “proof of life” video of a man claiming to be opposition leader Leopoldo López, his wife and attorneys say they have yet to be allowed to see him in person.
Venezuela’s dictator Nicolás Maduro has plenty of problems on his plate – soaring hyper-inflation, food and medicine shortages, the surging popularity of the opposition movement against him – and this year he has delivered at least one concrete plan to solve them: dancing.
The communist government of North Korea has long held a spot on the list of the world’s most repressive tyrannies, with human rights organizations regularly condemning the atrocities committed by the Kim family regime.
The family of a Cuban man arrested on Monday for waving an American flag during the nation’s communist May Day celebration says his whereabouts are unknown. They fear the government has taken him as a prisoner of conscience for his repeated public displays of rejection of dictator Raúl Castro and communism generally.
Lilian Tintori, wife of imprisoned Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López, rejected a bizarre “proof of life” video of a man alleging to be her husband published by Venezuelan socialist state television following rumors surfacing Thursday he had been taken to a military hospital in “very serious” condition.
Late Wednesday evening, Senator Marco Rubio confirmed rumors on Twitter that Leopoldo López, the head of Venezuela’s opposition Popular Will party, had been transferred from prison to a military hospital in “grave” condition.
Kim Sang Dok, a U.S. citizen known also by his American name Tony Kim, is under arrest in North Korea for “committing criminal acts of hostility aimed to overturn the DPRK not only in the past but also during his last stay before interception,” according to an official statement by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
The Chinese state-run propaganda newspaper the Global Times published an article suggesting that a nuclear-armed North Korea is a greater threat to communist China than any attempts at “containment” by the United States.
Thousands in Venezuela took to the streets, again, late Tuesday and throughout Wednesday in the capital, Caracas, to protest dictator Nicolás Maduro’s call to discard the Constitution and convene a “Constituents’ Assembly” to write a new one more favorable to his socialist government.
Venezuela’s National Assembly may soon be replaced by a “Constituents’ Assembly” that will draft a new constitution, according to the nation’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), the federal media censorship body, recently passed regulations against “non-traditional” programming such as dating shows and the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show that at least one RTÜK member has condemned as a threat to free speech.
An anti-communism Cuban dissident interrupted Monday’s May Day parade in Havana, running in front of the marching throngs waving an American flag. A communist mob attacked him, beating him and dragging him away.
Venezuela’s political opposition rejected calls from Pope Francis for another round of dialogue with dictator Nicolás Maduro, and decried the pope’s claim that the opposition was currently “divided.” The Vatican mediated talks between the two sides throughout 2016 which collapsed as the government refused to release political prisoners or entertain presidential elections.
In anticipation of May Day, the international communist holiday, the New York Times published an opinion piece celebrating the American communists of the twentieth century, arguing that communism – an ideology that has killed 100 million people – gave Americans a “sense of one’s own humanity.”
Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, told reporters Monday that he could not yet accept an invitation from his American counterpart Donald Trump to the White House because he is unsure of whether he has the time to make it.
Multiple reports have suggested an elevated American presence on the Syrian-Turkish border where clashes between the Turkish military and the Syrian Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG/YPJ) have escalated in the past week.
Anticipating an emergency meeting to discuss suspending Venezuela over its violations of the democratic order, the socialist government of Nicolás Maduro has formally begun proceedings to withdraw from the Organization of American States (OAS).
As the death toll from weeks of protests in Venezuela continues to grow, dictator Nicolás Maduro has repeatedly placed emphasis in his television appearances on the importance of dance in society, decreeing on Wednesday that all socialists must know how to dance or immediately learn how.
Turkey has expressed its condolences to the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) after airstrikes led to the deaths of several Peshmerga soldiers but vowed to continue operations in the region following attacks on Syrian Kurdish and Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets in both countries this week.
The government of China has drafted a list of “overly religious” names banned in western Xinjiang province, home to the nation’s Uighur Muslim ethnic minority. The list includes names such as “Muhammad,” “Jihad,” and “Imam.”
The anti-socialist opposition in Venezuela called for daily protests following the “mother of all marches” last week, and angry Venezuelans appear to have heeded the call, defying increasingly violent repression tactics from the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB).
American officials began the installment of the controversial Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system early Wednesday morning in South Korea where protesters greeted them despite the late and unannounced hour.
The Turkish military has launched a series of airstrikes against the U.S.-allied Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) in Syria and the U.S.-designated terrorist group Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Iraq, which Ankara considers the same organization.
The administration of President Barack Obama made much ado about their “pivot to Asia,” an attempt to prioritize the continent over traditional alliances with Europe.
Despite being present in the country long before its independence, the Christians in Pakistan are among the nation’s most persecuted victims of social discrimination, mob violence, and the near-constant threat of terrorist attacks.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered an extended military operation against the Islamic State affiliate Abu Sayyaf and assured civilians that any violent action they take to subdue local terrorists will be forgiven in a court of law, following the arrest of a policewoman with ties to the group and the beheading of a soldier.
On Sunday, French voters cast both the left and right establishment parties of their country out of the running for the presidency, opting instead for a choice between the populist right and a former socialist now selling himself as the safe bet.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a Marxist terrorist group recently empowered by an Obama-supported peace deal with the Colombian government, has issued a statement in support of the socialist dictatorship in Venezuela, condemning the United States for allegedly meddling in the South American nation.
