Germany’s Merz Calls for Rebalancing of ‘Unhealthy’ Trade Ties with China After Meeting Xi
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for a “reset” of his country’s ties with China after a meeting Wednesday with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for a “reset” of his country’s ties with China after a meeting Wednesday with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.

American lawyer Barry Pollack accused the Trump administration of not allowing the Venezuelan government to fund his representation of deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, a report Wednesday indicated.

Nicaragua’s communist regime prohibited 406 Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) Catholic processions during the first week of Lent, the newspaper La Prensa reported this week.

Venezuela’s socialist regime this week announced the start of a construction project to “transform” the Helicoide (“The Helix”), its largest and most infamous torture complex, into a “cultural center.”

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Beijing on Wednesday aiming to attain “fair” cooperation with China and deepen economic ties with the Communist dictatorship.

Two environmental activists on Wednesday heckled Australia’s left-wing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, interrupting his speech at an event in Melbourne.

The government of Panama on Monday took administrative and operative control of two key Panama Canal ports following the Panamanian’s Supreme Court ruling that annulled the contracts signed with a China-linked organization.

The wave of intense violence unleashed by Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) following their death of its leader, Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, left over a thousand tourists stranded at the Guadalajara City Zoo in the state of Jalisco this weekend, local outlets reported.

French President Emmanuel Macron will hold a government meeting on Tuesday to address the fight against “violent ultra or extreme groups” following the killing of 23 year-old conservative university student Quentin Deranque.

Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) will start handling out monetary bonuses to GPs that prescribe weight loss jabs to patients as it moves to expedite the rollout of GLP-1 jabs nationally.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro on Sunday acknowledged that the Ocean Mariner, an oil tanker intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard near Cuban waters this month, had loaded fuel in Colombia.

Sandro Castro, grandson of late Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro, published an obscene video on Sunday critical of the piling-up garbage and fuel shortages in Cuba.

Australia will soon have its first Trump Tower after plans for the $1.5 billion Australian dollar project are set to go ahead, local outlets reported on Monday.

China’s Commerce Ministry on Monday called for the United States to rescind all tariffs after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs.

A hunger-motivated prison riot at the Canaleta maximum security prison in Ciego de Ávila, Cuba, left at least seven inmates dead and several injured, the human rights organization Prisoners Defenders denounced on Thursday.

A court in Peru summoned Marxist interim President José María Balcázar Thursday for an upcoming trial on embezzlement charges.

“Acting president” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday evening signed an “amnesty law” criticized by local human rights organizations over its limited reach for all of the socialist regime’s remaining political prisoners.

Conservative President of Paraguay Santiago Peña on Thursday confirmed his participation at President Donald Trump’s upcoming “Shield of the Americas” Summit.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday warned Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to stop commenting on the death of conservative university student Quentin Deranque.

The Peruvian Congress on Wednesday installed 83-year-old Marxist lawmaker José María Balcázar as new interim president of Peru following the impeachment of former interim President José Jerí.

Cuba’s communist Castro regime, for the first time in decades, accepted a mass deportation flight containing at least six Cuban nationals convicted of serious crimes, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) revealed on Wednesday.

A court in Palermo on Wednesday ordered the Italian government to compensate the German NGO Sea-Watch with 76,000 euro (roughly $89.680) for detaining one of its illegal migrant ships in 2019.

United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) commander, Marine Gen. Francis L. Donovan, met with Venezuela’s “acting President” Delcy Rodríguez and other members of the nation’s socialist regime Wednesday in a surprise visit to Caracas.

Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani on Wednesday met with Venezuela’s “acting President” Delcy Rodríguez and other members of the Venezuelan socialist regime in Caracas.

President Donald Trump and Venezuela’s deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro became unwitting stars in several Carnival parade festivities this year.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday vowed to continue cracking down on illegal migration after a Rome court blocked the deportation of an 23-time convicted Algerian man and ordered the Italian government to compensate him for trying to deport

José Ángel González, deputy director of Spain’s National Police, resigned Tuesday hours after a Madrid Court admitted a sexual assault complaint filed by a subordinate.

The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance (ARC) on Monday announced a vigil in Miami, Florida, to demand the criminal prosecution of Cuba’s nonagenarian communist dictator Raúl Castro for his role in the murder of four Americans in February 1996.

A court in Peru on Monday ruled that President José Jerí must comply with a psychological treatment for “psychosexual pathology” that he failed to submit himself to after he was accused of alleged rape in 2025.

British taxpayers were dealt another huge blow after U.K. High Court judges ruled hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation is due to illegal migrants who had their mobile phones seized as they stepped ashore after human traffickers delivered them across the English Channel.

Italian biathlete Rebecca Passler rejoined her team at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games on Monday after she successfully appealed a suspension for alleged doping violation after she tested positive for the banned substance Letrozole.

A Brazilian Carnival float from the União de Maricá samba school ran over several individuals during Sunday’s parade in Rio de Janeiro, leaving at least three injured, one in critical condition.

El Salvador’s Navy seized 6.6 tons of cocaine from an African-flagged drug-trafficking vessel, President Nayib Bukele announced on Sunday.

Spain has registered a staggering 365-percent surge in mental health-related sick leave filings among the nation’s youth over the past seven years, the Spanish newspaper ABC reported on Monday.

Italy’s “Love Arch,” a famous rock formation in the seaside village of Torre Sant’Andrea, collapsed overnight on Valentine’s Day after an extended period of heavy rain.

Valentine’s Day flower arrangements sent to U.S. Congressmen by the Colombian embassy in Washington prompted a security warning message in the Capitol, Caracol Noticias reported on Thursday.

U.S. oil companies that lost billions of dollars after the Venezuelan socialist regime expropriated their assets are in talks with “acting President” Delcy Rodríguez to recover some of the losses, Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Bloomberg on Thursday.

Japanese authorities seized a Chinese fishing boat on Thursday and arrested its captain after they caught the vessel illegally fishing inside its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

The Foreign Ministers of Germany, Austria, and Italy on Thursday joined their French counterpart in condemning U.N. “Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories” Francesca Albanese after she accused Israel of being a “common enemy” of humanity.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright met with Venezuela’s “acting President” Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas on Wednesday.
