Nigerian Mining Minister Dele Alake announced on Monday that his government will commission two large lithium processing plants from Chinese firms this year, one of them valued at $600 million and the other at $200 million.
At least five people were killed on Tuesday when a huge explosion ripped through the Gaomi Youdao Chemical Company plant in Weifang, China.
A former waitress in Minnesota became entangled in an elaborate scam that funneled millions of dollars to North Korea through a network of remote workers using stolen U.S. identities. The scheme also enabled North Korean spies to snoop on Zoom meetings and download sensitive materials from the companies that hired them.
The communist regime of North Korea published an outraged screed on Tuesday denouncing President Donald Trump’s plan to implement a “Golden Dome” missile defense system over the United States, and potentially other parts of North America.
The Czech government has identified China as being “responsible” for cyberattacks against a a communication network of the Czech Foreign Ministry, officials said on Wednesday.
South Korea’s presidential election will be held on June 3. The last round of polls taken before polling is suspended under South Korean election law showed Lee Jae-myung, candidate of the left-wing Democratic Party (DP), with a solid but shrinking lead over Kim Moon-soo of the incumbent People Power Party (PPP).
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday dismissed President Donald Trump’s angry criticism of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin by suggesting Trump was suffering from “emotional overstrain.”
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a report on Friday that found North Korea has produced enough fissile material — i.e. atomic bomb fuel — to build up to 90 nuclear warheads, a dramatic increase from the 20 to 60 warheads it was believed capable of building last year.
The World Health Assembly, the body of states that make up the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), voted on Monday to allow the flying of the Palestinian movement flag alongside those of states.
Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service head Oleh Ivashchenko accused China of providing critical materials, including chemicals and tech components, to Russian factories — an allegation China dismissed on Tuesday as “political manipulation.”
Independent reports out of China revealed that a Chinese factory workers upset by unpaid wages decided to set fire to a textile plant in Sichuan last week.
French President Emmanuel Macron announced over $10 billion in deals with Vietnam on Monday, including an agreement for Vietnam to buy 20 French-made Airbus planes.
China’s National Nutrition and Health Steering Committee published a set of dietary guidelines on Sunday designed to address China’s rapidly growing problem with obesity.
Pope Leo XIV made his first public comments on Sunday regarding Christianity in China since becoming head of the Catholic Church, praying for the Virgin Mary to grant them the ability to be “strong and joyful witnesses of the Gospel” in a country that actively persecutes all religions.
French first lady Brigitte Macron appeared to push her husband away with both hands on his face just before they disembarked from their plane to start a tour of Southeast Asia this weekend. President Emmanuel Macron dismissed the gesture – caught on camera – as just horseplay, but it caused a stir back home.
Pope Leo XIV asked Sunday for prayers for China’s Catholics to be in communion with the Holy See, as he made his first public remarks about one of the thorniest foreign policy issues facing his new pontificate.
The FBI arrested two Pakistani immigration lawyers in Texas, exposing a smuggling network that imported Pakistani migrants via several forms of white-collar fraud.
Japan’s economy contracted in the first quarter of 2025 – its first contraction in a year and a much worse showing than analysts expected.
House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party chair Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) wrote to the CEOs of hotel chains Hilton, Marriott, and Hyatt on Wednesday, asking them to explain why their websites and other materials refer to Taiwan as “Taiwan, China” – the preferred nomenclature of the Chinese Communist Party.
A Taliban official told Reuters that the group is in the “advanced” stages of a deal to do business with Russia using local currency.
The anti-American BRICS coalition largely remained silent this week as the president of one of its core members, South Africa, faced a humiliating excoriation at the White House.
The Chinese Communist government on Friday condemned the United States for ending Harvard University’s much-abused international student program.
Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday condemned the murder of two young Israeli diplomats in Washington, DC, “in the strongest terms” and said that “the perpetrators must be brought to justice.”
The authoritarian governments of China and Russia did not respond favorably to President Donald Trump’s announcement of the “Golden Dome” missile shield program on Tuesday.
A fresh wave of protests has broken out in cities across China, as angry workers demand their unpaid wages, and residents repel against a myriad of new taxes and fees imposed by cash-strapped municipal governments.
The flagship state propaganda agency of communist North Korea revealed on Thursday that dictator Kim Jong-un was witness to a “serious accident” involving a new naval destroyer that severely damaged the vessel.
China’s government-run Global Times propaganda newspaper defended the government of South Africa in its coverage of President Cyril Ramaphosa visiting the White House on Thursday, claiming that President Donald Trump’s evidence of normalized genocidal sentiment against white people in the country was a “conspiracy theory.”
A last-minute bid to prevent the UK govt spending billions of pounds of taxpayers money to give away its own sovereign territory overturned.
Judge’s dramatic eleventh-hour intervention prevents UK giving away strategically vital Indian Ocean territory housing major U.S. airbase.
A senior Pakistani security official said on Tuesday that India and Pakistan have agreed to withdraw the troop reinforcements they rushed to the border during their week-long conflict this month.
China claims W.H.O.’s Pandemic Agreement was guided by dictator Xi Jinping’s “vision of building a global community of health for all.”
Honda is slashing 30 percent of its investment in electric vehicles (EVs) due to slowing demand. Instead, the Japanese car giant with a large manufacturing presence in America will focus on launching more hybrid vehicles.
Secretary of State Pete Hegseth on Tuesday that he would order the Pentagon to engage in a “comprehensive review” of former President Joe Biden’s abrupt withdrawal from Afghanistan – with a particular focus on the failures that led to a suicide bombing at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport that killed 13 American Service members.
The State Department said on Monday it would place visa restrictions on the “owners, executives, and senior officials” of Indian travel agencies accused of “knowingly facilitating illegal immigration to the united States.”
The weight-loss drug market is booming in the wake of Ozempic’s success, and China is preparing its own drugs to compete.
The Center for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS) in New Delhi on Sunday accused China of giving air defense and satellite intelligence support to Pakistan during its clash with India in early May.
The lead singer of the longstanding Korean boy band Super Junior, Leeteuk, has faced a torrent on online backlash in the past week following his shouted declaration of love for President Donald Trump during a concert in California.
The Chinese government reversed its decision to close the Fengyi Elementary School in China’s northern Hebei province this week, following huge protests by angry parents.
Nigeria has signed a major agreement with a Chinese arms manufacturer to build a munitions factory on Nigerian soil.
Chinese social media users responded with outrage to a viral video that showed an elderly woman dying at a bank after she was forced to leave the hospital and make a withdrawal to pay for her medical expenses.
