“At least nobody is shooting here, and I can freely speak the Ukrainian language,” Doctor Oleksandr Sklyarov tells the Kiev Post. Thirty years later, the radioactive outskirts of Chernobyl are seeing a small increase in population as Ukrainians flee Russian
As Rio de Janeiro prepares to welcome the world’s sports enthusiasts for August’s Summer Olympic Games, human rights activists are warning that Brazilian authorities are “cleaning the streets” of Rio by detaining poor children to keep them out of the sight of tourists.
The Chinese Communist Party held its first conference on religious freedom this weekend, in which President Xi Jinping demanded that “unyielding Marxist atheists” impose communism onto the nation’s religious groups. The meeting follows months of growing tensions between the communists in Beijing and blossoming Christian and Muslim underground communities.
The persistence of the Boko Haram terrorist group in Nigeria and neighboring countries is fueled by an alarming lack of organization and distrust among intelligence officials, keeping essential information from getting to those who need it in time.
China is looking far and wide for allies in support of its invasion and colonization of South China Sea territories belonging to other nations. Last week, it received its first statement of support from the African nation of Gambia, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is now claiming that Laos and Brunei also support China’s claims.
Rodrigo Duterte, the frontrunner in this year’s Philippine presidential election, promised voters in a debate Sunday night that he would ride into the disputed territories of the South China Sea on a jet ski and plant the flag of the Philippines on the Spratly Islands, where China has built advance military infrastructure.
A Chinese state-run newspaper is touting the development of “maritime nuclear platforms” for use in the South China Sea, where China is claiming most of waters belonging to five other nations.
The government of Cuba, after weeks of pressure from pro-freedom activists and a lawsuit against corporate giant Carnival Cruise, will make an exception to a law banning U.S. citizens born in Cuba from landing on the island by sea. Passengers aboard Carnival’s Fathom cruise line will be the beneficiaries of that policy change.
A new study finds that up to 2.2 billion people worldwide are at risk of contracting the Zika virus, which can cause irreparable damage to unborn children and cause painful nerve damage. The study adds to the woes looming over Brazil – the epicenter of the Zika outbreak – as the nation prepares to welcome thousands for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Rodrigo Duterte, currently the frontrunner in this year’s Philippine presidential elections, has vowed to “sever” ties with the United States over their criticism of a joke he made about an Australian rape victim. The threat comes at a time of high tensions in the South China Sea, where the U.S. is aiding the Philippines in keeping China from usurping much of its territory.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has once again irritated the Chinese government by sending an offering to the Yasukuni Shrine, a Shinto shrine for Japan’s war dead that honors more than a dozen convicted war criminals.
14-time Grammy Award-winning jazz musician Paquito D’Rivera has been re-invited to the White House’s International Jazz Day celebration after penning a letter objecting to being rejected for the celebration, a move he considered political retribution for his stance against the Cuban communist regime.
Cuban state media reported Tuesday that Fidel Castro, the soon-to-be-90-year-old former dictator of the island, spoke before the assembled Communist Party Congress in Havana to warn supporters that his death may soon be near.
A Brazilian federal prosecutor tells Reuters that multiple projects planned for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro are under investigation for being the objects of corruption schemes, another wrench in an increasingly chaotic lead-up to the opening ceremonies in August.
The Chinese government is fighting off protests from American officials that it landed a military plane on Fiery Cross Reef, a disputed territory both Vietnam and the Philippines claim, alleging the flight was necessary to save a worker having a medical emergency.
President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil is halfway through the process of being impeached, accused of borrowing money to misrepresent the state of her nation’s economy to outsiders. In remarks Tuesday, she once again rejected the claims against her, instead alleging that her impeachment is fueled by “a great amount of prejudice against women.”
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez described President Barack Obama’s visit to the island in March as an “attack… on our history, our culture, and our symbols” at an assembly of nationwide Communist Party leaders on Monday.
Carnival Cruises has agreed to rescind its policy of not selling tickets for its newly-announced Cuba cruises to U.S. citizens born in Cuba. Should Cuba ban these individuals from docking, Carnival has promised to delay the program’s maiden voyage. This represents a change in policy following a civil rights lawsuit filed against the corporation.
President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil has come out swinging against the legislature’s move to impeach her for misrepresenting the state of the Brazilian economy, proclaiming the constitutional impeachment process an “injustice” and claiming impeachment is a tool of the nation’s “coup supporters.”
Brazil’s political turmoil continues two days after the lower chamber of the national legislature voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff. A startling poll shows that the overwhelming public support for her impeachment is not antagonism limited to Rousseff, however, but to all leftists in power, as another poll shows strong support for impeaching her vice president, as well.
Members of the anti-American nationalist Turkish Youth Union (TGB) attacked an American soldier at the nation’s İncirlik Air Base on Saturday, attempting to cover his head in a sack and proclaiming that America was “responsible for… the terrorism in our country.”
Reports coming out of North Korea indicate that Pyongyang has enacted further crackdowns on culture throughout the country, with sources inside the country saying the government has now banned piercings and “Western” clothing.
Rep. Tiririca the Clown (PRB – Sao Paulo) is the ultimate outsider politician, a professional clown elected to Congress in 2010 and subsequently awarded best attendance of any of his peers. Naturally, during last night’s impeachment vote against President Dilma Rousseff, the nation stood transfixed waiting for Tirirca’s vote: a resounding “yes” to impeachment.
Brazilians danced in the streets, chanting and even burning their president in effigy on Sunday to celebrate the House of Representatives’ vote to impeach leftist head of state Dilma Rousseff.
Carnival Cruises is facing legal action for enacting a ban on American citizens born in Cuba from purchasing tickets to their debuting voyage around the island of Cuba, a restriction which a court may find violates the 1964 U.S. Civil Rights Act.
Thousands of Cuban nationals who managed to escape the island and reach Central America are now stranded in Costa Rica and Panama, blocked by the leftist government in Nicaragua from moving north towards America but unable to stay where they are.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s attempt to have the Supreme Court throw out an impeachment attempt in the nation’s Congress has failed, and now the legislature will vote on whether to impeach her at 2:00PM Sunday Brasilia time.
Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, organized a thousands-strong protest in the nation’s capital Thursday calling for nonagenarian dictator Robert Mugabe step down after 28 years of iron-fisted rule.
The government of North Korea has announced that it is seeking to conduct its fifth-ever nuclear test, placing a miniaturized warhead on a ballistic missile, “in a short time,” following weeks of threats that Pyongyang will attack South Korea and the United States with nuclear bombs if it feels such a move necessary.
The Pentagon has announced that American forces will conduct surveillance patrols with the Philippines “regularly” in the South China Sea, as Defense Secretary Ashton Carter concludes his trip to Manila to assert America’s commitment to protect the Philippines from Chinese expansionism in the region.
China is continuing its push to promote further communist government meddling in Buddhism. An article in the state-run Global Times cites an “expert” warning that the religion’s living Buddhas could become “weapons of mass destruction” if not properly controlled by Beijing.
On the two-year anniversary of the mass abduction of over 200 girls by the jihadist group Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria, CNN has published a video showing 15 of the victims, all wearing Islamic garb and describing themselves as “well.”
The North Korean government is calling a mass defection by 13 restaurant workers who fled to South Korea a “group abduction,” accusing Seoul of kidnapping their citizens “in broad daylight.”
The government of Nigeria has claimed for months that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) affiliate Boko Haram has been defeated. Yet military campaigns continue, and this week, the army began bombing the Sambisa forest, a largely inaccessible plot of land known as the terrorist group’s last hideout.
New satellite images show the Chinese government has added fighter jets to its fleet in the Paracel Islands, a South China Sea chain that Vietnam and the Philippines claim. This development comes as U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter lands in Manila to show his support for the Philippines against Chinese expansionism in the region.
Returning from a week-long research trip to South America, Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC) tells Breitbart News that intelligence officials in multiple countries have reason to believe that drug trafficking organizations are looking to work with terrorists groups like Hezbollah, but lack the technology to catch illegal money transfers as they happen.
The government of Nigeria is denying a report in The Telegraph that Boko Haram has offered to return the schoolgirls abducted in April 2014 in exchange for $56 million, noting it is still trying to verify similar reports, as well.
Brazil’s congressional impeachment committee has voted to send a vote to impeach President Dilma Rousseff to the House of Representatives’ floor, placing her one step closer to being ousted. The leftist Rousseff’s Workers’ Party is planning rallies in her favor, with police anticipating the nation’s capital will attract thousands of protests for and against the president.
Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former president Alberto Fujimori, has swept Peru’s presidential elections Sunday with 39.46 percent of the vote. In a run-off vote, she will face economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, whom she defeated by a solid 15 percentage points.
Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter will visit a U.S. military site near disputed territory in the South China Sea this week, according to a senior U.S. official that described the visit as “a message to the region about our commitment to peace and stability there.”
