A man identified as 35-year-old Fernando Andres Sabag Montiel was arrested late Thursday evening after apparently attempting to assassinate the vice president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
The United Nations human rights office allowed the Chinese Communist Party to peruse a draft of its report on the Party’s genocide of non-Han ethnic groups in East Turkistan and “watered down” the evidence most clearly fitting the definition of that atrocity, Politico reported on Thursday.
China’s state-run Global Times cited government-approved “experts” to declare that the catastrophic decline in marriages nationwide – 2021 saw the lowest rates in marriage registrations since the government began documenting them – was “a normal phenomenon” that citizens should not concern themselves with.
Shiite militias in Basra, Iraq, opened fire on each other early Thursday morning in what the Kurdish news outlet Rudaw described as “heavy confrontations,” just days after Shiite followers of anti-Iranian cleric Muqtada al-Sadr stormed the capital, Baghdad, prompting riots that left at least 30 people dead.
Radical Islamist President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi declared his country “invincible” in a threatening military rant on Thursday preceded by his top diplomat claiming the rogue regime was still “closely studying” a proposal to revive the doomed 2015 nuclear energy deal with Europe and the United States.
The United Nations human rights office published its long-awaited report on Chinese Communist Party abuses against Uyghurs and other non-Han ethnic groups in East Turkistan on Wednesday, effectively confirming the atrocities researchers and journalists have documented for years but refusing to acknowledge the systematic elimination of these groups as genocide.
A poll published this week by the Venezuelan firm Meganálisis found an overwhelming majority of the country subscribes to Christian beliefs and holds socially conservative viewpoints such as opposition to legalized abortion and same-sex marriage.
The Taliban jihadist terror organization celebrated the final withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan on Wednesday, the anniversary of the occasion, with fireworks and a celebration at Bagram Air Base, formerly America’s largest military facility in the country.
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which operates under the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), urged America on Tuesday to “develop reparation proposals” for descendants of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, claiming its “lingering legacy” still represses black Americans today.
The foreign ministry of Chile issued an outraged statement on Monday condemning conservative Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro after the latter claimed during a presidential election debate the day before that leftist Chilean President Gabriel Boric had “set fire to the Metro,” a reference to riots that gripped the country in 2019.
The Cuban Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH), a watchdog group specializing in abuses on the island, revealed on Monday that dissident Daniel Joel Cárdenas Díaz will appeal his 15-year sentence for allegedly participating in the nationwide peaceful protests on July 11, 2021.
Influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his supporters to stop violent riots in Baghdad on Tuesday after 24 hours that left at least 30 dead and hundreds wounded in the Iraqi capital’s “Green Zone.”
The government of Marxist ex-guerrilla member President Gustavo Petro in Colombia sent an ambassador to Venezuela on Sunday and accepted his counterpart representing the socialist regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro, restoring ties broken under the previous conservative president over the illegality of Maduro’s leadership of the country.
The “Interior Ministry” of the terrorist government of the Taliban advertised in a news conference on Sunday the development of an armed forces wing dedicated to suicide bombing, the “Martyrdom Brigades,” calling the bombers “our source of pride.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced this weekend that he had held a video conversation with American late night comedian Jimmy Fallon to discuss “options for cooperation” to bring awareness to Russia’s ongoing invasion of the country.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters Thursday that the government of his native Ethiopia is blocking him from sending money to or even communicating with family in the blockaded Tigray region, lamenting, “I don’t even know who is dead or who is alive.”
Socialist former President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, currently the frontrunner in the 2022 presidential race, disparaged his rival incumbent, President Jair Bolsonaro, as a “court jester” and promised “a little barbecue and beer” for all Brazilians if he returns to power.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday urging the State Department to consider imposing sanctions, including a ban on entering America, on Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, one of the region’s most prominent leftists.
Communist Party authorities in Cuba arrested the mothers of two 11-year-old girls beaten by police last week while trying to defend the father of one of them from a violent assault by police during a protest, human rights activists confirmed on Wednesday.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a press conference Thursday that the Taliban considers America’s claim to have eliminated al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri with a drone strike in a wealthy area of Kabul an “allegation” and that Taliban terrorists have yet to find his body.
The president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Ingrid Newkirk, told Breitbart News on Tuesday that it was “high time” medical personality Anthony Fauci resigned from his government positions and lamented that Fauci had presided over “transgender experiments on animals which make no sense at all.”
The government of Ethiopia and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the nation’s former ruling party now functioning as a rebel militia, confirmed that a truce that began in March had broken with major hostilities erupting on Tuesday.
Afghan refugees who fled their country a year ago after the Taliban seized Kabul organized two days of protests on Monday and Tuesday in United Arab Emirates (UAE), where they have been trapped in a migrant facility with little information regarding any potential departure.
The Chinese government newspaper Global Times marked medical personality Anthony Fauci’s announcement that he would depart his roles in federal government at the end of this year with two articles on Tuesday accusing Fauci of bringing the country “much bitterness” through “missteps” running the nation’s response to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
The socialist government of Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe charged student protesters on Monday with violating the “Prevention of Terrorism Act” by holding a peaceful march, the latest in a string of actions supporters of the nation’s anti-government protest movement say are a “witch hunt” against legitimate complaints against corruption and incompetence.
President Jair Bolsonaro sat down for a contentious 40-minute conversation with one of Brazil’s most prominent establishment news programs, TV Globo’s Jornal Nacional, on Monday, at one point having to urge host William Bonner to “calm down” as he was accused of trying to stage a coup.
The former head of South Korean’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), Park Jie-won, warned on Monday that North Korea would “likely” test a nuclear weapon prior to the American midterm elections in November in response to Seoul resuming military exercises with the United States.
A religious group is rebuilding a pier in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, but the cross design was not what some residents wanted.
A group of former Cuban military officials who defected from the communist regime called on active servicemen and other agents of the state to refuse to follow orders to repress their countrymen, the Cuban independent outlet 14 y Medio reported on Monday following violent attacks on unarmed civilians this weekend in Camagüey.
Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar blamed the Chinese Communist Party on Sunday for tensions on the nations’ mutual border that led to a military defeat for Beijing in 2020, claiming China has continued to lack “respect” for agreed-upon limits to mass troop movements in the region.
Police in Pakistan pressed charges against Islamist former Prime Minister Imran Khan this weekend under the nation’s anti-terrorism laws for a speech Khan delivered on Saturday in which he personally named a judge and police officials and threatened not to “spare” them if he returned to power.
Chinese Ambassador to the United States, Qin Gang, said in an interview published by regime media on Friday that Beijing would like to impose the repressive “One Country, Two Systems” policy currently in effect in Hong Kong on the nation of Taiwan. It emphasized the “two systems” aspect of the policy is “subordinate to” the one country.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo told the South China Morning Post on Thursday that he has reason to believe Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin would attend the G-20 summit scheduled to take place in November.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attempted to convince Latin America to abandon what has for months been little more than apathy towards the Russian invasion of his country in a speech to Chilean college students this week.
Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled his country in July after protesters stormed his official residence and threw a four-day house party, is applying for a U.S. green card and looking to settle in America, Sri Lanka’s Daily Mirror reported on Thursday.
The director-general of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, accused heads of state on Wednesday of racism for failing to address the ongoing “manmade” humanitarian disaster in his native Ethiopia, saying that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is getting more attention due to the skin color of Ethiopians.
The communist regime ruling North Korea declared victory against the Chinese coronavirus pandemic this week after only three months of having admitted to any coronavirus cases within its borders, publishing commemorative posters in its classic communist propaganda style.
Brazil officially opened its presidential election campaign season on Tuesday, sending the frontrunners – incumbent conservative President Jair Bolsonaro and socialist ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – to address large crowds of supporters and make their extremely different pitches on why they should run the country.
The United Nations’ top official on slavery declared in a world report made public on Tuesday that the Chinese Communist Party was actively enslaving members of non-Han ethnic groups in East Turkistan, an occupied region west of China, and has likely engaged in similar activities in Tibet.
The Chinese state-run Global Times newspaper applauded its bosses on Tuesday for playing “an increasing important role” in helping the Taliban cement its stranglehold on Afghanistan through business ventures, particularly in pursuit of the country’s vast mineral wealth.
