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Alleged Pentagon Leaks Say ISIS Regrouping in Afghanistan, Angering Taliban

Documents allegedly procured from a trove of Department of Defense leaks suggest that the Islamic State’s Afghanistan operation, ISIS-Khorasan, has strengthened markedly under Taliban rule and is consistently plotting attacks around the world, the Washington Post claimed this weekend.

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Top Chinese Propagandist Condemns Beijing Fire Cover-Up, Then Deletes Post

A top Chinese government propagandist, former Global Times editor Hu Xijin, lamented the censorship of information related to a deadly fire at a Beijing hospital this week – then rapidly deleted his social media post and replaced it with an innocuous post calling for police to investigate the incident.

Hu Xijin, Beijing Fire

Colombia’s Pro-Cocaine President Petro Touts Guerrilla Past in Washington

Colombian President Gustavo Petro, a radical leftist and once-member of the Marxist April 19th (M-19) Movement guerrilla, touted his past as an urban insurgent in a plea to the Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday to implement “revolutionary” reforms to its Democratic Charter.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro speaks at the Organization of American States headquarte

China Says It Has ‘No Time’ to Deal with Antony Blinken

China’s state-run Global Times propaganda newspaper published an editorial on Wednesday dismissing calls by American Secretary of State Antony Blinken for Beijing to return to communications with Washington, stating the Communist Party has “no time” for “insincere people” like Blinken.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during the Summit for Democracy on March 30,

U.N. Protests Alleged Pentagon Leak Claiming U.S. Spied on Antonio Guterres

A spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the agency had formally lodged a complaint with the American government after alleged Pentagon leaks published by the Washington Post indicated Washington was spying on Guterres’s private communications.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres looks on at the opening of the UN Human Rights Counc

Putin, Zelensky Make Dueling Easter Visits to Ukraine Front Lines

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the occupied Donetsk region of the eastern Donbass on Tuesday, meeting wounded soldiers and assessing the battleground situation after his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin revealed, had toured eastern Ukraine on Monday.

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Spurned by Biden, Israel Asks China to Help Contain Iran Threat

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen asked China to “influence” Iran to cease developing its illegal nuclear weapons program, inviting Beijing to play a bigger role in the Middle East as relations with the United States under leftist President Joe Biden have deteriorated.

Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Eli Cohen and Polish Minister during his meeting with

China Buys Up Share of Qatar Natural Gas Project, Expanding Deeper into Middle East

China’s oil and gas giant Sinopec announced on Wednesday that it had signed a deal with QatarEnergy, which manages the nation’s prodigious supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG), to become a shareholder in the latter’s North Field East expansion project, granting China unprecedented control over an LNG source.

First LNG Cargo From Qatar Arrives In China's Tianjin TIANJIN, CHINA - JANUARY 15: Th

Entire Leadership of Trudeau Foundation Resigns amid Chinese Donor Scandal

The president and CEO of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, along with its entire board of directors, resigned on Tuesday blaming “politicization” in the aftermath of bombshell reports the Foundation had taken donations from Chinese billionaire Zhang Bin intended to influence the government of Trudeau’s son, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

BEIJING, CHINA - AUGUST 31: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses a press confe

China Launches Homemade mRNA Coronavirus Vaccine ‘Booster’

The Chinese National Health Commission debuted a new timeline for Wuhan coronavirus vaccination on Monday, demanding that citizens over 18 receive a booster shot three months after their first vaccination or after a confirmed coronavirus infection.

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Report: Conservative South Korea Worried U.S. Would Drag It into Ukraine

Alleged confidential U.S. government leaks to left-wing media over the weekend included information from documents, allegedly sourced from intercepting conversations among South Korean officials, indicating that the conservative government of President Yoon Suk-yeol was concerned that leftist President Joe Biden would drag Seoul into the ongoing war in Ukraine.

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 21: U.S. President Joe Biden (R) welcomes President of Ukraine V