Exactly one year after the U.S. eliminated Iran’s Major General Qasem Soleimani in a missile strike, the Islamic Republic affirmed it is ready to respond to any American military pressure.
The United Nations Human Rights Office condemned the execution of an Iranian man Thursday for a crime allegedly committed when he was 16 years old.
Nigerian Bishop Moses Chikwe and his driver, who were abducted by gunmen on December 27, were released by their kidnappers late Friday, church officials report.
The year 2020 was the year China surpassed the United States as the largest cinema market in the world – thanks, of course, to the Wuhan coronavirus.
The local government in south-central Konya, Turkey, announced this week that it would turn a fully renovated 19th-century Armenian church into a “humor art house” after barring worshippers from using the church for years, multiple reports revealed Thursday.
The Global Times, a Chinese state propaganda outlet, suggested the communist country could “realize herd immunity by the end of 2021” against the Chinese coronavirus Friday, citing an “expert.”
Government agents smuggled doses of an unapproved Chinese coronavirus vaccine candidate into the Philippines and gave them to President Rodrigo Duterte’s military security detail as early as September, the Philippine defense minister said Wednesday.
Pope Francis called for prayers Friday for the safe return of Nigerian Bishop Moses Chikwe, who was abducted last Sunday with his driver.
Chinese bottled water tycoon and vaccine manufacturing mogul Zhong Shanshan has become Asia’s richest person, financial media outlets reported Wednesday.
Nuclear regulators in Japan recently revealed the radiation levels found inside the damaged reactor buildings at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant are “exceedingly high” and worse than previously thought, the Asahi Shimbun reported Wednesday.
Abortion was once again the number-one cause of death globally in 2020, with nearly 43 million unborn babies killed in the womb, according to data provided by Worldometer.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has developed a reputation for crude, inappropriate, and often seemingly incoherent ramblings at public effects, forcing government spokesmen to come up with explanations. 2020 was no different for the president.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised on Thursday that his administration will run the biggest vaccination program on the planet in 2021.
Governments worldwide have imposed limitations on the number of people allowed to gather in private and public to celebrate New Year’s Eve on December 31 amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) found several ways to exploit the coronavirus pandemic it unleashed, ruthlessly using the incalculable economic, political, and social damage inflicted upon the rest of the world to its advantage.
The United States announced a ban on some Malaysian palm oil imports on Wednesday over allegations that one of the country’s leading producers uses forced labor.
The milestones President Donald Trump made in U.S. space exploration will no doubt last light-years after he leaves office.
Multiple mainstream American outlets claimed this week that the White House had evidence indicating that the Chinese Communist Party offered unspecified “non-state actors” money to attack American troops in Afghanistan, the Afghan outlet Khaama Press noted on Thursday.
While the Philippines is a majority Catholic country, its southern island of Mindanao is home to a separatist Muslim minority known for a decades-long campaign of guerilla warfare to gain control of the region.
A high-ranking Iranian official announced Wednesday that the nation would soon publish an indictment against the individuals responsible for the drone strike that eliminated Major General Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, a year ago on Sunday.
Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Wednesday provided a dramatic insider account of citizen journalist Zhang Zhan’s defiant stand in a Shanghai courtroom against the judge who sentenced her to four years in prison for “picking quarrels and starting trouble.”
A series of explosions killed at least 22 people at the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Wednesday.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro pledged Wednesday to construct 200 socialist-run “communes” over the course of 2021.
China’s communist dictator Xi Jinping boasted of his nation’s achievements in 2020 — a year defined by a deadly pandemic that Beijing could have prevented — during his regular New Year’s Eve speech.
Beijing announced the ratification this week of an extradition treaty with Turkey, which human rights experts worry will be used to expedite the return of Muslim Uyghur refugees to China.
Two B-52 “Stratofortress” bombers of the U.S. Air Force arrived in the Middle East in a show of short-notice force, U.S. Central Command said on Wednesday.
Tehran on Wednesday allocated $150,000 for the families of each of the 176 victims of a Ukrainian plane shot down by Iran in January.
The Bangladesh Navy on Tuesday shipped nearly 2,000 Rohingya refugees to a remote, flood-prone island that surfaced just 20 years ago in the Bay of Bengal.
Russian investigators on Tuesday launched a criminal investigation into Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on charges of fraud.
Over a hundred former Indian officials wrote an open letter Wednesday urging the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, to repeal a law against the forced religious conversion of women, popularly known as the “Love Jihad” law.
United Nations human rights experts on Wednesday denounced President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon four American men convicted of killing Iraqi civilians while working as contractors in 2007 as a violation of international law.
Iraqi state media warned of a major energy crisis Tuesday due to reduced exports of natural gas from Iran.
A Chinese court on Wednesday sentenced ten of the so-called “Hong Kong 12” — a group of pro-democracy activists detained by Chinese authorities on August 23 as they tried to flee the city for Taiwan — to up to three years in jail on charges linked to “illegally crossing a border.”
The government of Indonesia announced Wednesday that an influential Islamist group called the Islamic Defenders Front, commonly known by its Indonesian acronym FPI, has been outlawed and ordered to suspend all activities.
The Senate in Argentina legalized aborting the unborn child up to 14 weeks-gestation on Wednesday. The landmark move will provide the procedure for free, establishing the abortion industry in the country while defying the pleas from native son Pope Francis to defeat the measure.
Explosions rocked Yemen’s Aden airport on Wednesday shortly after the arrival of a plane carrying the new unity government, with the information minister accusing Iran-backed Huthi rebels of the “cowardly” attack.
Three French soldiers were killed in Mali on Monday after their armored vehicle struck an improvised explosive device (IED) during a counterterrorism operation in the West African country, the French government said.
South Korea on Tuesday recorded its highest daily coronavirus death toll since authorities first began documenting coronavirus deaths within the country early this year.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced Tuesday that, following successful cooperation with U.S. authorities, they had recently seized large quantities of cocaine and broken up an international drug-smuggling ring.
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Kathmandu on Tuesday to protest Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli’s decision last week to dissolve the country’s parliament.
