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Under the deal announced by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Prigozhin will go to Belarus, and charges against him will be dropped.

The Wagner paramilitary forces of Yevgeny Prigozhin have reportedly broken through to the Lipetsk Region, around 230 miles south of Moscow.

Yevgeny Prigozhin refused to surrender amid claims of a coup attempt against the Kremlin and warnings that his forces are marching on Moscow.

The Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICSA-RAS) announced on Thursday it has created a “Xi Jinping Thought Research Laboratory” in Moscow — the first foreign institute devoted to studying the ideology of Chinese dictator-for-life Xi Jinping.

The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on Thursday warned there is an “extremely high risk” of encountering products made by slaves when shopping with two popular Chinese fast-fashion brands: Shein and Temu.

American actor Jeffrey Parise caught Cuba’s figurehead “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel and partner Lis Cuesta enjoying one of Rome’s top fine dining restaurants this week, outraging Cubans who have faced frequent, severe food shortages at home for decades.

The Central Bank of Turkey hiked interest rates for the first time in 27 months on Thursday, reversing a key economic policy that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stubbornly defended throughout his turbulent reelection campaign.

Karine Jean-Pierre will not ask Joe Biden if he was with Hunter Biden in 2017 when he demanded payment from a CCP-linked businessman.

Amnesty International issued an “urgent” call for Cuba to free Yoruba leader Loreto Hernández García and his wife, Donaida Pérez Paseiro.

ABC and CBS on Thursday ignored the bombshell IRS whistleblower allegations that Hunter Biden received preferential treatment from the DOJ.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed shock on Thursday when confronted about the dramatic escalation in violence against non-Hindu religious minorities in his country during his tenure, claiming to be “really surprised” and denying any religious discrimination.

Far-left American President Joe Biden praised his top diplomat, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, for a “great trip to China” this week in remarks to reporters on Thursday – and dismissed concerns about cratering Washington-Beijing communication as “hysteria.”

France is reportedly set to back NATO membership for Ukraine, signalling a growing divide in the Western strategy towards Russia.

The office of radical socialist Honduran President Xiomara Castro said on Wednesday that control of the national prison system will be transferred to the military police for at least one year.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared on Capitol Hill on Thursday to address a joint meeting of Congress as part of a multi-day tour through the United States aimed at building on U.S.-India relations.

India once again broke its previous Russian oil import records in May, Reuters reported on Wednesday, buying 1.95 million barrels per day (bpd) that month. About 40 percent of the oil India imported in May came from Russia.

Brazil’s top electoral court, the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), began a trial on Thursday morning against former President Jair Bolsonaro that could end with a ban on him from running for public office.

Both Western news outlets and Chinese state media this week uncovered a hot new trend on Chinese social media: “white people food.” The trend consists of Chinese users expressing astonishment at the horrifying discovery that some Americans and Europeans eat sandwiches and salads for lunch.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Thursday that Moscow favors expanding the BRICS economic bloc to include more nations, but France will not be one of those new members.

General Electric Aerospace on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to manufacture fighter jet engines in India, putting ink on a major deal that was a much-anticipated feature of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States this week.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave leftist American President Joe Biden a handcrafted box featuring various gifts, including an idol of the Hindu god Ganesh and a silver oil lamp, on Wednesday evening, a gift intended to honor the president having lived through “one thousand full moons.”

The DOJ prevented U.S. Attorney David Weiss from asking questions about an email on Hunter Biden’s laptop detailing a China business deal.

Hunter Biden’s plea deal with United States Attorney David Weiss could allow Congress to dig deeper into the Biden family business.

Far-left Congresswomen Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) announced this week they will not attend an address to a joint session of Congress on Thursday by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The EU is considering shifting some of its strategic gas storage to Ukraine despite obvious concerns of the facilities being in a war zone.

China’s desperation to keep nervous international investors from giving up on its flagging economy prompted the regime to turn to its old adversary Jack Ma on Tuesday.

More than 90,000 Colombians gathered on the streets of 15 of Colombia’s main cities on Tuesday in the latest round of peaceful protests against radical leftist President Gustavo Petro and the leftist reforms his government seeks to implement.

Israel used a drone to destroy a car in Samaria (the northern West Bank) on Wednesday that it says contained three Palestinian terrorists who had just attacked a checkpoint and were involved in recent terror attacks.

A contingent of Indian Army soldiers from Kerala published a video on Wednesday performing yoga underwater, an effort to honor the International Day of Yoga.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in New York on Wednesday, en route to a state dinner and address to Congress in Washington on Thursday.

Attorney General Merrick Garland implied Hunter Biden’s plea deal did not involve a double standard of justice.

Michael McMahon, a 55-year-old former New York City police sergeant, was convicted of stalking a New Jersey family while working for China.

President Joe Biden spilled United States intelligence about China to campaign donors at a recent event in California, according to a report.

President Joe Biden is under increasing pressure from the left to confront Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi about his human rights record.

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), a North Korean government propaganda network, published an angry screed condemning Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to China this week as a “disgraceful begging trip” setting America up to be a “loser.”

Special Counsel John Durham said a number of FBI agents “apologized” to him for the so-called 2016 Russia hoax investigation.