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A violent brawl erupted in the Turkish Parliament on Wednesday immediately before the swearing-in of Akın Gürlek as the nation’s new justice minister, the result of opposition lawmakers arguing that Gürlek was an inappropriate choice for the role.

House Republicans, led by Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Riley Moore (R-WV), introduced a bill on Monday calling for the State Department to offer comprehensive reports on American actions to protect Christians persecuted by a host jihadist terror threats in Nigeria, as well as efforts to convince the Nigerian government to take the threat seriously.

According to a U.S. official who spoke to media outlets on Tuesday, the Pentagon will send about 200 troops to Nigeria within the next few weeks to train the Nigerian military in counter-terrorism tactics.

The Iranian government held rallies on Wednesday to commemorate the 47th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, in an obvious effort to demonstrate strength after massive protests threatened to topple the oppressive government last month. Controversy erupted when U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres allegedly wrote a letter to the president of Iran to congratulate him for the revolution that created the murderous regime in Tehran.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro on Tuesday claimed that there was an alleged plot to sabotage his recent meeting with President Donald Trump by planting “psychoactive substances” in the Colombian presidential vehicle.

Attorney General Pam Bondi told Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) on Wednesday that the Trump administration is committed to working with Congress to end warrantless surveillance of Americans.

U.S. Representative Tony Gonzales (R-TX) says there is much work to be done to hone Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) defenses along the U.S.-Mexico border in the wake of a federal shutdown of airspace in portions of his district on Tuesday evening. Gonzales told Breitbart Texas he’s working to remedy the situation through funding and education.

Ukraine will hold simultaneous presidential elections and a peace deal referendum in the Spring, report claims.

Mark Ruffalo signed ‘Let Cuba Live,’ a leftist letter condemning President Donald Trump’s policies against the Cuban regime.

On Monday, far-left CBS News released anti-ICE/pro-Democrat Party talking points that prove that, despite her promises, CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has no intention of reforming the disgraced CBS News.

Blacklisted basketball star Enes Kanter Freedom trashed Olympic skier Eileen Gu as a “traitor” for switching her allegiance to China.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum revealed that she has not received any information about cartel drones flying into U.S. airspace from Mexico.

A cartel drone incursion over El Paso prompted the FAA’s unprecedented national‑defense airspace shutdown over El Paso and eastern New Mexico, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. The incident raises new questions about cross‑border threats as federal agencies remain silent on the details.

Indonesian Army Chief of Staff Gen. Maruli Simanjuntak said on Tuesday that his country is prepared to commit 5,000 to 8,000 troops to the International Stabilization Force (ISF) for Gaza.

The largest airlines in Canada announced on Monday and Tuesday that they would be suspending flights to Cuba for the immediate future as a result of the Castro regime announcing it no longer had any jet fuel.

President of Argentina Javier Milei used a Tuesday video message to applaud President Donald Trump as an “example of courage and leadership” after the capture of Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Colombian model Valentina Forero Álvarez this week plead guilty of leading a multi-state criminal organization that used the U.S. financial system to launder more than $31 million in drug trafficking proceeds.

New satellite imagery shows Iran has buried the entrances to a hardened tunnel complex at its Isfahan nuclear site, a move a U.S.-based watchdog said signals Tehran is “seriously concerned” about a strike or raid.

China’s National Development and Reform Commission estimates that 9.5 billion trips will be made during the 40-day Lunar New Year travel rush.

Venezuela’s socialist strongman Diosdado Cabello celebrated the abduction and rearrest of opposition politician Juan Pablo Guanipa.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that it still hopes to create a “cross-border payment infrastructure” for the BRICS economic bloc — in other words, an alternative currency that would dethrone the American dollar as the favored medium of international trade.

Mexico, China, and Russia vowed to provide assistance to the ailing Cuban regime this week — but none offering to provide the oil that the ailing communists desperately seek.

Chinese state media is enchanted with gold medalist skier Eileen Gu, the American-born freestyle champion who turned her back on the United States to represent the genocidal Communist tyranny at the Olympics.

China defended the sentencing of Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai, a Christian and staunch anti-communist, to 20 years in prison.

Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council (TPC, or CPT using its French acronym) ended its tumultuous and unhappy two-year run on Saturday, stepping down with the country still in chaos and its final major effort — to unseat U.S.-backed Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime — completely ignored.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Sunday that he viewed recent talks with the United States as “a step forward,” but his foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, insisted on the same day that Iran will never give up its uranium enrichment program.

Chinese state media agencies confirmed a massive explosion taking place at a facility owned by a biotechnology company killed at least eight people in Shanxi, northern China this weekend.

China’s Global Times state propaganda newspaper proclaimed that America was besieged by “deep divisions” in an article on the Winter Olympics.

Iran added 7.5 years to the prison sentence of activist Narges Momhammad as part of its crackdown against dissidents.

WASHINGTON — Cyprus’s Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos told Breitbart News exclusively that President Donald Trump is in a “unique position” to restructure the “global order” and shape world affairs in a way that an American president has not in generations.

Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Pablo Guanipa was rearrested 12 hours after being released from prison.

The U.S. military stealthily boarded a tanker overnight in the Indian Ocean that was defying President Donald Trump’s established quarantine.

Sandro Castro, grandson of late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, published a bizarre video on Sunday claiming that he would like to drink a “Cuba libre” instead of a beer from a brand seized by his family’s communist regime.

The Communist Party of Cuba warned airlines operating in the country that it would soon run out of jet fuel, reports revealed on Monday, potentially lasting through the middle of March.

Pro-democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong on Monday, effectively a life sentence given his age and reportedly poor health in detention.