Police in southern Sri Lanka’s Galle city found a 43-year-old man “dead in the driver’s seat” of his vehicle on Monday after he had waited in a gasoline line “for hours” amid Sri Lanka’s dire fuel shortage, the local News First website reported.
Violent clashes between Muslims and Hindus broke out across the Indian states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Jharkhand on Sunday during local observances of a Hindu religious festival, prompting authorities in two of the three states to impose curfews or gathering bans later Sunday, the Times of India reported on Monday.
Tens of thousands of people gathered on Sunday night across dozens of Pakistani cities to protest against the removal of Imran Khan from the office of Pakistan’s prime minister through a “no confidence” vote earlier Sunday, with “more than 20,000 people” taking to the streets of the southern port city of Karachi, Al Jazeera reported.
Six Marines are speaking out against the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate in a video aired at an anti-vaccine-mandate rally.
China’s state-run Global Times pushed back against a rising tide of international criticism and domestic discontent on Sunday by insisting the brutal lockdown imposed on Shanghai is appropriate and necessary for containing the Omicron coronavirus outbreak, and reports of misery from the lockdown are Western media exaggerations intended to “delude the Chinese public.”
Lebanese Trade Minister Amin Salam warned on Sunday that Lebanon faces a major food crisis, especially a severe shortage of wheat.
Chinese state media outlets insisted on Sunday that the ouster of radical Islamist Prime Minister Imran Khan in neighboring Pakistan – a close friend and ally of the Communist Party – would have no effect on bilateral ties.
The Parliament of Pakistan speedily elected Shehbaz Sharif, younger brother of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, to replace the ousted Imran Khan on Monday.
The increasingly brutal coronavirus lockdown imposed by the Chinese Communist government on Shanghai is producing horrifying social media videos of pets killed by hazmat-suited enforcers after families are carted away to quarantine.
North Korea held multiple events this weekend to mark the ten-year anniversary of Kim Jong-un taking over the country after the death of his father, Kim Jong-il, praising the young dictator for “scientifically seeing through the law of the developing revolution” and his “foresight and wisdom.”
Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk said Monday that Ukrainian men are waiting in line to enlist in the military for the opportunity to defend their homeland.
Videos surfacing on social media in the past week from Shanghai – and rapidly deleted on government-controlled sites like Weibo – show mounting desperation as a poorly planned coronavirus lockdown leaves the heart of China’s economy with rotting food and a lack of basic necessities.
Amid a wave of Arab terrorism, the head of Israel’s Arab-majority Joint List party Ayman Odeh caused an uproar Sunday when he told Arab Israelis serving in the security forces to revolt and lay down their arms, because they were “humiliating” their own people.
Two Jews were shot and wounded enroute to Joseph’s Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus, the Israel Defense Forces said Monday morning.
Whether from policy choice or personal frailty, Joe Biden has created a vacuum in the leadership of the free world.
Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk has condemned Russia’s “systematic war against civilians” in Ukraine following the massacre of 53 people in a train station.
Palestinian rioters on Saturday night vandalized Joseph’s Tomb, one of Judaism’s holiest sites, setting it on fire and smashing the gravestone.
Israeli officials have asked the Biden administration to pressure the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to cut the “pay-for-slay” scheme and refuse payments to the father of the terrorist who carried out Thursday’s attack in Tel Aviv, Israeli media reported.
ROME — Pope Francis denounced violence Sunday, asserting Jesus Christ is crucified again in those who suffer “senseless acts of cruelty.”
Pope Francis called for an “Easter Truce” in Russia’s war on Ukraine Sunday, urging compromise for the sake of peace.
Pakistan’s parliament voted to oust Prime Minister Imran Khan in a “no-confidence” vote early Sunday, with 174 of the parliament’s 342 members voting for his ouster.
Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk condemned “Russia’s attack on our homeland” Friday, urging continued resistance to the unjust “occupiers.”
Indonesia has experienced a shortage of palm cooking oil in recent weeks, caused, in part, by Russia’s latest war with Ukraine, Al Jazeera reported on Thursday.
Some 40 soldiers of the ruling military junta raided the Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Mandalay, Myanmar, Friday, detaining Archbishop Marco Tin Win and dozens of the faithful.
Shanghai, one of the wealthiest cities in the world, is currently experiencing food shortages due to stringent lockdown measures designed to contain its ongoing Chinese coronavirus outbreak, the Global Times reported on Thursday.
Birth rates across nine Chinese provinces and autonomous regions decreased in 2021, the state-run Global Times reported on Wednesday.
The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), a London-based non-governmental organization, this week published a report on the destructive, largely unregulated, and often illegal operations of China’s immense deep-water fishing fleet.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday blamed the United States for Afghanistan’s vast narcotics industry and demanded the U.S. government should “apologize and compensate for its dishonorable role in the Afghan drug problem.”
Communist North Korea may be rehabilitating the Punggye-ri former nuclear test site, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported on Friday, citing satellite images showing activity at the location.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin did not say whether rooting out “extremism” in the military is still a top priority for him under questioning at a hearing this week.
Shi Jun, a neurosurgeon in Heilongjiang, China, who reportedly volunteered to treat patients in Wuhan at the onset of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, killed himself by stabbing his thigh with a toothbrush after being arrested and facing five-hour interrogations, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Thursday.
Chinese state media on Friday gleefully mocked U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for contracting the Wuhan coronavirus, snidely informing Pelosi that she should abandon any plans to visit Taiwan lest she infect the island.
A Boeing 757-200 cargo plane operated by the DHL cargo service broke in two at Costa Rica’s Juan Santamaria International Airport on Thursday. The two crew members were reportedly in stable condition after the spectacular calamity.
Dozens of people have reportedly died after a missile strike hit a train station in the city of Kramatorsk. (Warning: Contains graphic image.)
The father of the terrorist who carried out a deadly attack in Tel Aviv on Thursday greeted throngs of Palestinians who gathered at his home on Friday, telling them to keep fighting Israel and “victory will come soon.”
Thousands of Palestinians on Friday thronged outside the family home of a terrorist who carried out a deadly attack in Tel Aviv the night before, singing celebratory epitaphs supporting the terrorist and the murder of Jews.
The victim of Thursday night’s Palestinian terror attack in Tel Aviv Eitam Megini, 27, became engaged three weeks ago to his girlfriend, Ayala.
The chief spokesman for the Kremlin has admitted that Russia has incurred “significant” losses during Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Human rights activists are demanding the United Nations expel China, Cuba, Venezuela, and several other members of its Human Rights Council following the suspension of Russia’s membership on Thursday in light of their abysmal human rights records – in China’s case, including genocide.
A week after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked Australia for four-wheel drive armored infantry combat vehicles Canberra announced Friday they were on their way.
