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President Donald Trump extended the TikTok ban deadline Thursday for a third time, allowing the app to continue operating in the United States for an additional 90 days. 

China’s state propaganda outlet Global Times declared in a commentary on Thursday that “the U.S. bears responsibility for the Iranian nuclear issue,” exonerating its ally Iran entirely for developing an illicit nuclear program and escalating enrichment activities against United Nations standards.

Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) on Wednesday announced the introduction of the Prying into Chinese Tyrants’ Unreported Riches, Earnings, and Secrets (PICTURES) Act, a bill that instructs the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to uncover and document with visual evidence the secret fortunes and shadowy assets held by high-ranking Chinese Communist Party officials.

British PM gave warm handshake to an interpreter before betraying he’d realised his mistake as the actual President walked in behind him. 

Lee Jae-myung, the winner of South Korea’s June 3 election, made his first overseas trip this week to attend the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Alberta, Canada.

The Group of Seven (G7) nations on Tuesday rolled out an action plan to “de-risk” critical mineral supply chains.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) has issued subpoenas to companies selling Chinese medical devices with a built-in “backdoor” that can transmit patient information to a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) controlled institution without the patient’s consent.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi concluded a visit to Canada on Tuesday with a meeting with his host, Prime Minister Mark Carney.

A Chinese national in the country illegally has been arrested in Alabama over a scheme aimed at defrauding an elderly American.

President Donald Trump says he may extend the deadline for the sale of China’s TikTok app for a third time, adding that he believes a deal will eventually transpire.

The G7 Summit, hosted this year by Canada, is scheduled to continue on Tuesday with the arrivals of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and focus heavily on the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Iran.

Sikhs in Canada were angered by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s invitation to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend this weekend’s G7 summit in Alberta as a guest. Carney’s predecessor, Justin Trudeau, publicly accused Modi’s government of assassinating Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Vancouver in June 2023.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published a report on Monday that warned China has the fastest-growing nuclear arsenal in the world and its inventory of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) could reach parity with the United States and Russia by 2030 – although Beijing would still lag behind in deliverable nuclear warheads.

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday denounced Israel’s strikes on Iran as “unprovoked military strikes against a sovereign UN member state, its citizens, peaceful cities, and nuclear energy infrastructure.”

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the sole known survivor of the horrifying Air India Flight AI171 plane crash on Thursday, is conscious in the hospital and describing how he managed to leap to safety from the crash that killed all 241 of his fellow passengers and crew.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi revealed on Friday that he held a phone conversation with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, who updated him on the country’s ongoing campaign against Iran.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a statement defending “Iran’s sovereignty, security and territorial integrity” and discouraged “escalation” on Friday morning, responding to an Israeli operation targeting high-ranking Iranian military leaders.

Indian authorities have revised the death toll of the flight AI171 crash downwards because some remains had been inadvertently counted twice.

A court in Taiwan sentenced a Chinese ship captain to three years in jail on Thursday for intentionally damaging undersea communications cables.

An Air India Boeing 787 bound for London with 242 people aboard, including 53 UK citizens, crashed in Gujarat on Thursday.

Four members of the superstar South Korean boy band BTS have successfully completed their mandatory military service.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that the United States and China have reached a trade agreement, contingent upon his and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s signoff.

The Shaolin Temple in Henan province, China, confirmed on Tuesday that San Antonio Spurs player Victor Wembanyama was staying at the site for a ten-day retreat after photos of the NBA star wearing dressed as a monk and sporting a shaved head began circulating on Chinese social media.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Tuesday released its annual “State of World Population Report.” According to the report, the world is experiencing a fertility crisis and most of the policies implemented to fight it are ineffective.

Multiple courts on Monday and Tuesday indefinitely suspended criminal cases against leftist President Lee Jae-myung in South Korea, citing presidential immunity.

The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning entered Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) on Saturday, passing within 200 miles of the eastern island of Minamitori.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, from June 15 to 17.

The rare earths crisis was always going to arrive eventually. The surprise is not that it happened, but how little we did to prepare.

This month, the Supreme Court made a pivotal and deeply disappointing decision that could erode America’s foundational commitment to religious liberty and hand important resources over to our enemies.

A high-level Pakistani delegation to the United States, led by the former foreign minister and son of President Asif Ali Zardari, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, praised President Donald Trump for brokering a ceasefire with India as the two nuclear-armed countries lobby U.S. lawmakers for support.

Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Soviet leader in Central Asia.

The U.N. General Assembly elected a host of regimes with records of human rights abuses to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) – including the genocidal state of China – on Wednesday, the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Corporate investigators have reportedly discovered evidence that Chinese hackers infiltrated an American telecommunications company in the summer of 2023, suggesting that China’s attackers penetrated the U.S. communications system far earlier than publicly known.

Lawmakers with the ruling leftist Democratic Party in South Korea moved to pass legislation through the National Assembly potentially expanding the nation’s Supreme Court from 14 to 30 seats on Wednesday — hours after their leader, Lee Jae-myung, was inaugurated president.