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President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly being praised by Arab officials for doing more to move Israel and Hamas closer to a hostage and ceasefire deal than President Joe Biden has done in more than a year since the last truce.

Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, the bishop of the diocese of Matagalpa, said that he believed “our peace is the will of the Lord” in his public interview — nearly a year after Nicaragua’s communist dictator Daniel Ortega banished him from his country.

Lebanon’s newly-installed President Joseph Aoun on Monday named the sitting head of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Nawaf Salam, as prime minister on Monday.

China’s state-run Global Times fired the metaphorical starting gun on the 2025 Spring Festival travel rush on Tuesday.

The Chinese state-run propaganda outlet Global Times berated Americans on Tuesday for alleged “finger-pointing” and a lack of “unity” in the face of the ongoing Los Angeles wildfires, condemning reasonable criticisms regarding California’s lack of preparation to handle the destruction.

Sen. Joni Ernst’s said her “frank conversations” with Pete Hegseth have led to progress on issues facing the Pentagon.

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol did not attend his first impeachment hearing on Tuesday, reportedly out of fear for his security, making it impossible for the Constitutional Court to address most of the issues presented before it today.

President Joe Biden announced he would remove Cuba from the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Defense Secretary, set the record straight after Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) cited thoroughly refuted anonymous reports claiming he drank on the job at Fox News.

The top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Jack Reed, tried to give Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth different rules for his confirmation hearing than Biden’s Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin had.

Leaders of the Hamas terrorist organization have reportedly accepted a draft agreement that would bring a ceasefire in Gaza if Hamas agrees to release its Israeli hostages.

President-elect Donald Trump reaffirmed his complete support for Pete Hegseth, his nominee for secretary of Defense, ahead of Hegseth’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Pete Hegseth testifies before the Senate Armed Services committee in a confirmation hearing to be Secretary of Defense on Tuesday, January 14.

The energy minister of Saudi Arabia announced on Monday that the country has plans to make “yellowcake,” a uranium concentrate used a nuclear power plant fuel, and sell enriched uranium to the world.

Canadian Liberals are scrambling to fill the power vacuum left by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation, using a great deal of tough talk intended to convince voters that the party can stand up to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in a potential tariff and border security conflict.

China’s General Administration of Customs announced on Monday that exports for 2024 totaled $3.58 trillion, while imports were $2.59 trillion, creating a $990 billion trade surplus that easily surpassed the previous record of $838 billion in 2022.

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on Monday that his government understands America’s legitimate security interests in the Arctic region but is still not interested in handing over Greenland as President-elect Donald Trump has demanded.

Brazilian lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro, accused Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes over the weekend of obstructing his father’s request to attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration with a “very bureaucratic process.”

Outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed during an interview on Sunday, a week before he steps down, that China has penetrated America’s water treatment plants, electric grid, and other critical civilian infrastructure, and is lying “in wait” for an opportunity to cyberattack at a time and place of its choosing.

Saudi Arabia hosted a large summit on Sunday — featuring American and European as well as Middle Eastern diplomats — to discuss the future of Syria, during which its officials called for lifting sanctions on the country to give its new regime a chance to recover from the civil war.

Turkey is a “key concern” for observers fearing the erasure of Christian communities of post-Assad dynasty Syria, a leading persecution expert told Breitbart News, describing Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as someone who sees “himself as a leader destined by Allah to elevate Turkey and Islam’s influence.”

The socialist government of Brazil, notorious for its online censorship campaigns, gave Facebook parent company Meta a 72-hour deadline this weekend to provide “explanations” on its decision to scrap its third party “fact check” system, known for its left-leaning bias.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday ordered Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko to prepare a plan for assisting the hapless governments of California and Los Angeles with controlling deadly wildfires.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky published a video on social media on Sunday of two men Ukraine claims are North Korean soldiers captured on the front lines of the Russian invasion, allegedly fighting without having been told they were going to war.

Sweden will contribute up to three warships to a NATO effort to increase the alliance’s presence in the Baltic Sea as it tries to guard against sabotage of underwater infrastructure, the government said Sunday.

An emergency task force arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region on Sunday as an oil spill in the Kerch Strait from two storm-stricken tankers continues to spread a month after it was first detected, officials said.

There is no danger in exploring a purchase of the Panama Canal, Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday, discussing President-elect Donald Trump’s ideas and his status as the “quintessential deal maker.”

France on Saturday handed over its second army base in Chad as part of an agreement with the country’s authorities to withdraw its military forces.

The U.S. purchase of the Panama Canal could decrease Chinese influence globally, Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD), who introduced the Panama Canal Repurchase Act, said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday.

Ukraine’s forces have captured two North Korean soldiers fighting alongside Russian troops in Russia´s Kursk border region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday.

Thousands of Romanians gathered on Friday outside the parliament building in Bucharest, which also houses the country’s Constitutional Court, to protest the court’s annulment of the November presidential election.

Leaders in Syrian Kurdistan asked the United States this week to provide protective troops and become more involved in keeping the peace as they face an ongoing campaign by Turkish proxy forces to eradicate them.

The socialist regime in Venezuela briefly detained opposition leader María Corina Machado amid gunshots on Thursday after she made her first public appearance in months.

A Lebanese legislator lodged a protest vote in his country’s presidential election on Thursday by choosing American Jewish socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

Alexander Vindman criticized incoming National Security Adviser Mike Waltz’s plan to clear the National Security Council of deep staters.

The regimes of Iran and Venezuela signed a deal for the establishment of an Iranian drone development facility in Venezuela, the Argentine outlet Infobae reported on Friday.