Amnesty International reported Wednesday that 109 women remain unaccounted eight years after the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 mostly Christian schoolgirls from a state-run secondary school in northeastern Nigeria’s Chibok village.
A Brazilian lawmaker’s information request to the military revealed the purchase of 35,000 Viagra pills and over half a million dollars’ worth of penile implants, the lawmaker said on Wednesday, demanding the Armed Forces explain the use of taxpayers’ funding for those purposes.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday highlighted soaring rare-earth exports as a bright spot in the sputtering Chinese economy, suggesting the international obsession with “green energy” could be the Communist Party’s path to riches and power in the years ahead.
Lis Cuesta, the wife of Castro regime figurehead Miguel Díaz-Canel, outraged and disgusted Cubans this week with a bizarre post celebrating her husband as the “dictator of [her] heart.”
Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk has condemned the looting of Ukraine by its Russian occupiers, warning that the stolen property will “burn” in the hands of those who took it.
Courts across the Malaysian states of Sabah, Sarawak, and the national capital city of Kuala Lumpur have used an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) system to determine and assign sentences in criminal cases since February 2020, with the pilot program set to end by April 2022, the digital news platform Mashable Southeast Asia reported on Wednesday.
China’s state-run propaganda newspaper Global Times on Wednesday blamed American sanctions on Russia due to the war in Ukraine for Sri Lanka’s increasingly dire economic disaster – a disaster greatly exacerbated by the country taking out predatory loans from China.
Israel security forces thwarted a major terrorist attack planned for Passover Eve, Hebrew media reports said Thursday.
The Royal Thai Police recently rescued 700 Thais from Chinese criminal gang-run compounds in Cambodia, where Thais lured into financial telephone scams are held against their will in debt bondage, Al Jazeera reported Wednesday.
International Christian Concern (ICC) has denounced the ongoing “genocide” being carried out on Nigerian Christians by Fulani militants and other Islamic extremists.
The White House defended President Joe Biden’s decision to describe Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine as “genocide,” as he used his trip to Iowa for another unscripted moment in reaction to events engulfing Eastern Europe.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday decried the amount of global attention being paid to the war in Ukraine, adding it left him feeling in “pain.”
Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko accused Britain of staging a “psychological operation” in Bucha to fake the alleged attrocities.
Finland and Sweden may apply to join the NATO military alliance as early as June, largely in reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday that India is ready to fill the food supply gap caused by Russia’s latest war with Ukraine and “feed the world” — but is waiting on approval for this effort from the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Times of India reported.
New Zealand’s Supreme Court on Wednesday handed down a landmark ruling that would allow the government to export an accused murderer to Communist China for trial.
Taiwan’s military on Tuesday published a guidebook for civilians advising them on appropriate actions in the event of a “war,” appearing to indicate that Taiwan anticipates a higher risk of potential military conflict with nearby China after Beijing ramped up threats against the sovereign island nation in recent months, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
Chinese telecom giant Huawei suspended some of its operations in Russia this week, evidently nervous that Western sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine would become a crushing burden if added to U.S. sanctions already imposed on the company.
The White House announced this week that it had appointed former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL) and former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) as official advisers for the upcoming Summit of the Americas.
The United States Border Patrol and its K9 unit intercepted 85 pounds of fentanyl in the Tuscon Sector before it could hit U.S. streets.
Chinese state media on Wednesday grudgingly admitted coronavirus lockdowns are causing serious problems with domestic distribution and international shipping, as new data revealed imports unexpectedly collapsed by almost 16 percent last month.
The government of Santiago, the capital of Chile, announced on Monday plans to force the city’s roughly 8 million residents to ration water because a decade-plus regional drought has nearly depleted Santiago’s water supply, the website of the Chilean state-run Radio Pauta reported on Tuesday.
Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk condemned the ongoing use of sexual violence as a weapon of war against Ukrainian civilians in a video message Wednesday.
Pope Francis warns in a new book that Russia’s war on Ukraine risks evolving into World War III and we are “moving towards it as if it were unavoidable.”
China’s state-run Xinhua news service on Wednesday sought to deflect growing international condemnation of the brutal lockdown imposed on Shanghai with a bit of scaremongering, by claiming the only reason the Wuhan coronavirus appears to be under control in the United States is because the U.S. does not perform enough tests to catch all the asymptomatic cases.
A Chinese National Health Commission (NHC) official justified the mass internment of asymptomatic Chinese coronavirus patients in Shanghai by claiming that, if left to isolate at home, they could infect others through the sewer system, the state outlet Global Times reported on Wednesday.
Pope Francis has invited two families — one Russian, one Ukrainian — to copresent the thirteenth station of the annual Good Friday Way of the Cross, provoking what some describe as a possible “diplomatic incident.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told members of the Estonian Parliament on Wednesday that Russia had used “phosphorus bombs” against civilians in his country.
President Joe Biden condemned Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as guilty of “genocide” on Tuesday, referencing the ongoing war in Ukraine – a much harsher line than Biden’s prior attempts to explain away Chinese dictator Xi Jinping’s genocide against Uyghur Muslims in China.
Days after rioting Palestinian residents of Nablus burned and severely damaged the Joseph’s Tomb near Nablus, construction teams restored the holy site in a rare daytime operation.
The assassination of all U.S. leaders would not be enough to avenge the 2020 death of elite Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards general has said.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned Afghanistan’s charge d’affaires in Tehran to protest against violent attacks by Afghans on the Iranian Embassy in Kabul and the Iranian Consulate General in Herat on Monday, the official website of the Iranian Foreign Ministry reported.
Sri Lanka on Tuesday announced plans to temporarily default on its foreign debt, calling the measure a “last resort” designed to prevent “permanent damage” to the island nation’s economy amid its worst fiscal crisis in more than 70 years.
Several Chinese cities appear to have recently prepared their populaces for potential Chinese coronavirus lockdowns in the coming days, indicating the country may see a nationwide spate of lockdowns in the coming weeks, the state-run Global Times reported Monday.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele slammed the Biden State Department on Monday, saying his government only received American assistance to fight crime under the administration of President Donald Trump, while President Joe Biden has chosen to side with gangsters.
Wuhan, China – the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic – was once again placed under coronavirus restrictions on Monday, including travel restrictions and mandatory nucleic acid testing.
The collapse of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka has no brakes. Soaring costs of living, rolling power blackouts, food and medicine shortages, corruption, and gross mismanagement of its government have given forth to a massive wave of protests against the Southeast Asian nation’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), a government-run outlet in North Korea, published a “commentary” this weekend calling President Joe Biden “feeble” and mocking White House aides for having “a hard time” containing Biden’s “senility.”
Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Monday cited anguished social media posts from Shanghai residents whose relatives died because the brutal coronavirus lockdown imposed on the city three weeks ago prevented them from receiving vital medical care.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping addressed looming fears of a food crisis on Sunday during a trip to the southern island of Hainan.
