John Hayward

The U.S. and Niger issued a joint statement on Sunday that set a deadline of September 15 for the withdrawal of all U.S. forces.

The armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) said on Sunday that a coup attempt in the capital of Kinshasa was thwarted.

The oppressive Iranian regime declared a five-day mourning period for President Ebrahim Raisi after his death in a helicopter crash on Sunday, yet many Iranians are celebrating the passing of the vicious hardliner, known as the “Butcher of Tehran” for his role in murdering dissidents after the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has appointed First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber interim president.

Kurdish citizens protested across Turkey after a court sentenced former HDP leader Selahattin Demirtas to 42 years in prison.

A brawl erupted in the Taiwanese parliament on Friday during a heated debate over reforms to the legislature.

Turkey has entered “advanced negotiations” with Chinese electric vehicle (EV) giants BYD and Chery to establish factories in Turkey.

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad was welcomed Thursday in the capital of Bahrain for an Arab League Council meeting focused on the war in Gaza.

Share prices in China’s tottering real estate market perk up as municipal governments start buying up distressed properties.

China took an increasingly aggressive stance towards the Philippines this week, threatening to use force to repel civilian activists who are bringing supplies to Filipino fishermen in the Scarborough Shoal.

China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday dismissed tariffs that the Biden administration threatened as a “farce.”

Niger’s Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine said in an interview on Tuesday that his government’s relations with the United States broke down because the Biden administration adopted a “condescending tone and lack of respect.”

The legislature of Georgia approved a controversial “foreign agent” law despite massive protests in the streets and fistfights in parliament.

Evacuation orders have been issued for the Fort McMurray oil hub in Alberta, Canada, as winds shifted, and a massive wildfire approaches.

The W.H.O. says it has full confidence in the casualty figures that the Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health reported.

Chinese officials recommend using “Marxist Population Theory” to “analyze” China’s declining demographics.

Residents of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, have been ordered to be ready for evacuation at a moment’s notice as wildfires draw near.

Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof said on Monday he has fled his native country after it sentenced him to eight years in prison, plus flogging, for “collusion to act against national security.”

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said more than one thousand Hamas terrorists received medical treatment in hospitals across Turkey.

The Pentagon has formally ordered all 1,000 American combat troops remaining in Niger to withdraw over the next few months.

Public Eye, a human rights advocacy group based in Switzerland, blasted Chinese fashion giant Shein for demanding excessive overtime from its workers in a 2021 report.

International Christian Concern (ICC) President Jeff King warns pro-Hamas rallies are flourshing on campuses with the aid of Qatari funding.

The Chinese government celebrated heavy travel and tourism during China’s Labor Day holiday season, which ran from May 1 to May 5, as a sign the struggling economy is beginning to recover.

Christian tribes in northern India’s restless state of Manipur say the Hindu nationalist government is trying to deport them to Myanmar.

The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution asking the Security Council to vote for Palestinian membership.

Turkey’s authoritarian Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, this week converted the historic Chora Church in Istanbul into a mosque, outraging Christian leaders and drawing a mild rebuke from the Biden State Department.

Russia observed “Victory Day” on Thursday, a holiday commemorating victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. The day has become an increasingly strident nationalist spectacle under Vladimir Putin, who has all but erased the U.S. and its allies from memories of the war.

Canada’s Foreign Interference Commission issued a report on Friday that said the Indian government might have used proxy agents to pour money into the campaigns of preferred candidates in Canada’s 2019 and 2021 general elections.

Hungary rolled out the red carpet for Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Thursday as he paid his first state visit to Budapest.

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen announced on Thursday they had targeted three more commercial vessels with missiles and drones.

Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk announced on Tuesday that it will continue to avoid Red Sea shipping lanes for the “foreseeable future” due to terrorist attacks by the Iran-sponsored Houthi insurgents of Yemen.

Rafael Mariano Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), made some encouraging comments about Iran’s nuclear program during a visit to Tehran on Monday – but as soon as Grossi left, he complained that Iran’s level of cooperation with U.N. nuclear inspectors is “completely unsatisfactory.”

The Chinese Communist regime drafted a law that would require military training for children all the way down to the elementary school level.

A Hong Kong court approved the Communist-controlled government’s effort to ban “Glory to Hong Kong,” the anthem of the 2019 protests.

China’s state-linked electronics giant Huawei has reportedly been “secretly funding cutting-edge research at American universities” through a Washington-based nonprofit called the Optica Foundation.

The Taliban junta is putting some effort into reviving tourism in Afghanistan, and “adventure tourism” companies say it is working.