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Russia struck the Ukranian Black Sea city of Odesa again on Sunday, leaving one dead, dozens injured and a historic cathedral badly damaged.

Russia followed its withdrawal from a grain export deal by expanding its attacks to farm storage buildings in Ukraine’s Odesa region.

Chinese Ambassador to the United States Xie Feng said on Thursday the regime in Beijing considers it a “priority” to block Taiwanese presidential frontrunner William Lai from visiting the U.S. as scheduled next month.

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko said on Thursday his agency has uncovered “some really horrific information about the problems with the U.N. operations in Afghanistan.”

House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) said Friday that Rob Malley, the Iran envoy for President Joe Biden, may have committed “treason,” leading to his suspension from his post.

Chilean far-left President Gabriel Boric defended on Thursday the need to limit economic dependence on China during an encounter with representatives of French business.

Ukrainian officials scrambled to assure the Chinese communist government on Thursday that Kyiv would protect Chinese assets in the country following a Russian missile attack on the city of Odessa that damaged its Chinese consulate.

The defense minister of communist North Korea claimed on Thursday that the deployment of the USS Kentucky, a nuclear-powered submarine, to South Korea may prompt the rogue state to launch a nuclear attack.

The U.S. signaled it is bolstering its military presence in the Middle East on Thursday by ordering additional warships and marines to the area to counter Iran’s growing threats to commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. The USS Bataan

A huge explosion damaged vehicles and caused numerous injuries on Bree Street in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday.

Dozens of women made a rare show of defiance against the brutal Taliban regime in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul on Wednesday, marching against the ban on beauty salons issued early this month by the extremist government.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani expelled the Swedish ambassador on Wednesday, even as a mob of protesters waving photos of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad and set it on fire.

Establishment Republicans on Wednesday shot down Rep. Mary Miller’s (R-IL) amendment that would have disclosed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s 18 secret, taxpayer-funded flights.

The months-long persecution of Christian tribes in Manipur, northern India, by members of the majority Hindu Meitei tribe became a topic of national outrage on Wednesday as a video went viral of a presumed Meitei mob parading two women through the streets naked, molesting and humiliating them in broad daylight.

An FBI informant form released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma Holdings, expected Hunter and then-Vice President Joe Biden to take care of his legal issues.

Brazil’s President Lula dismissed Chilean counterpart Gabriel Boric as a “hasty young man” for demanding Latin American leaders condemn Russia for invading Ukraine.

The strange disappearance of Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang has become a major embarrassment for the regime in Beijing, as speculation grows that he has been silenced and purged for political reasons or personal misbehavior.

The FBI knew about President Joe Biden’s Ukraine business dealings before the “Laptop from Hell” reporting, an FBI informant document released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) shows.

An FBI record alleges Joe Biden and Hunter Biden received $10 million from Mykola Zlochevsky after Joe threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine until a prosecutor investigating Burisma was fired.

The Chinese government newspaper Global Times described a strange incident on Tuesday in which an American citizen ran into North Korea while on a tour of the Korean border as an “embarrassment” for America and the Korean policy of President Joe Biden, particularly during a time of heightened tensions.

The censorship of the Hunter Biden “Laptop from Hell” was a form of election interference, Breitbart News Politics Editor Emma-Jo Morris said during the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government’s hearing on censorship during a line of questioning from Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY).

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) warned Breitbart News’s Emma-Jo Morris to “be ready” as a witness at the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Federal Government hearing on Thursday, noting Democrat committee members have previously attempted to get journalist witnesses “to divulge their sources.”

Congress has consistently failed in its constitutional and statutory duty to review 41 national emergency declarations, including the national emergency regarding Syria.

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters on Wednesday that the communist rogue government of North Korea had refused contact from Washington attempting to discuss Pvt. 2nd Class Travis King, an American citizen who ran into North Korea on Tuesday.

President Joe Biden has threatened the “special relationship” between the U.S. and Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu goes ahead with judicial reforms that are opposed by that country’s political opposition.

Lithuania has begun revoking residence permits of Russians deemed to have “disloyal views” such as who is the rightful owner of Crimea.

The IRS agent whistleblower testimonies before the House Oversight Committee did not offer one piece of evidence proving any wrongdoing by President Joe Biden in the Hunter Biden criminal tax case, White House spokesman Ian Sams alleged.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping humiliated “climate envoy” John Kerry this week by holding a two-day “national conference on ecological and environmental protection” in Beijing without inviting his American guest.

CARACAS, Venezuela – Spain extradited the former head of Venezuela’s military intelligence, Hugo Carvajal, to the United States on Wednesday after a Spanish high court ordered his immediate extradition on Tuesday.

The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday advanced legislation that would bar the federal government from circumventing the Fourth Amendment by purchasing Americans’ private data without a warrant.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia signed two contracts with Turkey’s Baykar corporation on Tuesday to acquire combat drones, the latest in a series of big sales for Baykar as the low cost and outstanding performance of its weapons in Ukraine pique the interest of governments around the world.

Russian-controlled officials installed in occupied Crimea, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014, said Wednesday that a massive fire at a military base in Kirovske forced thousands of people to evacuate and shut down a major highway nearby.

IRS Agent Joseph Ziegler told Congress Hunter Biden did not report any Burisma Holdings income in 2014, and prosecutors permitted the statute of limitations to expire.

The awkward drama over if South Africa would fulfill its treaty obligations to the International Criminal Court (ICC) by arresting Russian leader Vladimir Putin during the upcoming BRICS summit in Johannesburg was apparently resolved on Tuesday.

Chinese media lamented that “discipline inspection” is weak – a concern raised as Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang continues missing.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog addressed a special joint session of Congress on Wednesday, telling lawmakers that despite vigorous debates within Israel, or occasional differences with the U.S., “we will always be family.”