Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina issued a statement following the murder of twenty people, mostly foreign nationals, at the hands of Islamic State-affiliated jihadis Friday insisting that “Islam is a religion of peace” and jihadists are “tarnishing” the faith.
Ousted Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff revealed that her predecessor, Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, plans to run for president again in 2018, despite being the subject of an extensive corruption probe that strengthened calls for Rousseff’s impeachment.
A bodyguard to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been arrested for allegedly having ties to a senior member of the Islamic State-affiliated terrorist group Boko Haram.
In a special parliamentary session to address terrorism following a suspected Islamic State attack on Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport, Turkey’s Interior Minister unveiled a plan to destroy Kurdish separatist marijuana fields.
The Turkish government has identified the man believed to have planned the attack on Istanbul Atatürk Airport earlier this week, which killed 44 people and injured more than 200. Akhmed Chatayev, known as “Akhmed One-Arm,” is a Russian Chechen terrorist believed to be operating out of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) strongholds of Iraq and Syria.
A Chinese rap group has released a song alleging to show the world the “real” China, claiming that its businessmen and “vaccination issue” are the nation’s biggest problems, while praising the Communist Party’s crushing gun control measures and asserting that all Chinese and Taiwanese reject the idea of Taiwanese sovereignty.
The Turkish government has revealed that the three men responsible for a suicide bomb attack on Istanbul Atatürk Airport Tuesday were all foreign nationals: from Russia, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan.
Just weeks before the start of the Summer Olympics, tourists at Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Copacabana Beach discovered mutilated body parts washing ashore, a reminder that many of the seaside venues reserved for athletes suffer from extraordinary pollution that could endanger the health of those in contact with the water.
Rodrigo Duterte, the populist anti-drug mayor of southern Davao City, has been inaugurated as President of the Philippines. In his inauguration speech, a conciliatory Duterte vowed to fight petty crime, drug trafficking, and government corruption.
Qandeel Baloch, a social media celebrity and former reality TV star in Pakistan, is facing death threats after taking selfie photos with an Islamic Mufti who was stripped of his authority following the publication of the photos online.
Police in Rio de Janeiro, many who have not received salaries in months, staged multiple protests throughout the city, demanding the government pay them and warning off Summer Olympics tourists with signs reading, “Welcome to Hell.”
Following an attack on Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport believed to have been orchestrated by the Islamic State, Secretary of State John Kerry asserted that the attack proved the group was “desperate” and “know [they] are losing.” Kerry spoke at the Aspen
Russian President Vladimir Putin called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss the restoration of diplomatic ties and an in-person meeting, the closest to cordial relations the two countries have experienced since the November 2015 downing of a Russian jet that had violated Turkish airspace.
The Indonesian legislature has approved a nearly ten-percent increase in the nation’s defense budget following a visit by President Joko Widodo to Natuna Island, a territory on the cusp of China’s “nine-dash line,” unilaterally defining Beijing’s borders as extending into five other countries.
The bodies of Ericka Ares Luik and her partner Kumar Prasad Bhat were found buried under tons of construction debris with bags on their heads this week. Luik, friends say, was hoping to flee Venezuela, home to the most violent city in the world, for Estonia.
A group of 137 women, part of Iraq’s Yazidi religious minority, graduated from military training under the Kurdish Peshmerga militia. The women are expected to join the front lines in the war against the Islamic State.
Turkish newspaper Hurriyet is reporting that two explosions have occurred at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport. Estimates of injured have exceeded 40 people.
The governor of Rio de Janeiro state, Francisco Dornelles, told the Brazilian newspaper O Globo on Monday that the Summer Olympics hosted in the state’s capital city may be a “big failure” due to the pervasive lack of funding for health and security infrastructure, leaving tourists and athletes exposed to crime and disease.
Turkish police used tear gas to disperse the nation’s annual gay pride parade in Istanbul on Sunday, arresting 19 people and enforcing a ban on the event following a similar spectacle against a transgender pride assembly last week.
Human rights groups are condemning The Economist for publishing a column promoting “the least nasty version” of female genital mutilation (FGM). Experts believe that even a “symbolic nick” can be as physically and psychologically damaging as any surgical procedure involving the removal of female genitalia for religious reasons.
During a speech Monday, Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte — who has sworn off interviews with the press — reiterated his support for capital punishment as a retaliatory measure and not a deterrent, disparaging human rights activists and opponents of the death penalty as “stupid.”
A Jamaican Olympic gold medalist has announced that he is carrying the Zika virus, but will continue to train and hopes to compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics this August in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
Colombia has agreed on a deal to reintegrate the guerrilla population of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the world’s wealthiest non-jihadist terrorist group, into Colombia’s civilian communities, a move President Juan Manuel Santos claims marks a definitive end to the half-century-long war between the government and the FARC.
Vice President Joe Biden warned China that the Japanese government may acquire nuclear weapons “virtually overnight” if the threat from North Korea becomes too grave, urging Beijing to do more to curb Pyongyang’s belligerence. The Vice President’s comments echo those
Human rights researchers have published an updated study accusing China of conducting tens of thousands of organ transplants using the bodies of political prisoners without their consent. While the practice has been known to occur in the communist nation for decades, Beijing alleges that it long stopped harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience.
The Islamic State loyalist responsible for the murder of 49 patrons of the gay night club Pulse on June 12, Omar Mateen, does not appear to have frequented gay clubs or dated men using gay phone apps, according to the FBI.
Pakistan’s Ministry of Religious Affairs has suspended an influential mufti from multiple Islamic responsibilities, including the sighting of the moon necessary to end the holy month of Ramadan, after Abdul Qavi appeared in selfie photos with Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch.
Omar Mateen, the Islamic State (ISIS) loyalist responsible for more than 100 casualties in Orlando’s Pulse nightclub earlier this month, was an “expert marksman,” according to a shooting instructor who gave him a refresher course in 2011.
The Chinese government is touting the support of “dozens” of countries for its illegal colonization of the South China Sea, with particular praise for Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe’s statement opposing the arbitration of China’s territorial dispute in international court.
A study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that a website offering clandestine abortion pills and help finding illegal abortion sources in Latin America has seen a surge in demand for their services as the Zika virus outbreak spreads through the region.
North Korea still has a perfect failure record launching ballistic Musudan missiles, according to American and South Korean intelligence reports, but one of two missiles launched on Wednesday reached an altitude of 620 miles, the best yet on record.
An American commander is contradicting the claim by Iraqi military leaders that the city of Fallujah has been “liberated” from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS), claiming, instead, that only one-third of the city has been cleared of an ISIS presence, and the rest is littered with traps and bombs for incoming soldiers.
In an in-depth look at the lavish lifestyles of Caracas’ socialism-friendly diplomats and government-sanctioned businessmen, the Daily Mail exposes Venezuela’s exclusive country clubs, located mere miles from the lines of starved civilians awaiting their food rations that have come to define the nation.
The government of Brazil has assured the world it will put on a spectacular show during August’s Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro despite the many problems casting a shadow over preparations: a Zika epidemic, rampant political corruption, an economic collapse, and now a new crime wave threatening tourists and athletes alike.
Voice of America (VoA) reports that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has taken over at least eight schools, including two high schools, in Afghanistan, imposing a jihadi curriculum that teaches children the fundamentals of sharia and how to commit suicide bombings.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has declared an epidemic of yellow fever, affecting the densely populated capital Kinshasa and infecting a suspected thousand residents nationwide.
An official propaganda arm of the Islamic State has released a video praising Omar Mateen, the jihadi responsible for last week’s massacre at a gay club in Orlando, Florida. The video features the English-speaking jihadi Abu Ismail al-Amriki asserting that the United States is “at war with Allah.”
The government of North Korea has published a scathing editorial demanding that Kenneth Bae, an American Christian missionary freed after being sentenced to 15 years hard labor, “commit suicide” following the publication of a book in which he details his life in a North Korean labor camp.
After months of increasingly alarming reports out of Venezuela, where the legislature declared a “food emergency” in February, The New York Times has finally shed some light on what appears to be the beginnings of a famine in the oil-rich country, where nearly 90 percent of civilians do not have access to food.
Omar Mateen, the Islamic State-affiliated jihadi responsible for the killing of 49 people at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub last week, spent almost $9,000 at a Kay Jewelers a week before the attack. This is the latest in a string of large, bizarre financial moves made by Mateen shortly before the massacre.
