Frances Martel

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz warned France that Jerusalem believes Iran is planning to attack the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) made the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and relevant Utah officials effectively stop questioning the legitimacy of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) probes into Chinese athletes, National Public Radio (NPR) reported on Wednesday.

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin welcomed longtime Syrian dictator Bashar Assad to Syria on Wednesday evening, holding talks he claimed covered “the entire range of our relations” but focused specifically on the current situation in the Middle East.

The Kremlin responded to comments by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in which he claimed Kyiv is “willing and ready” to dialogue with Russia, stating on Thursday that the regime was “generally open” to negotiation.

Law enforcement authorities have identified over 7,000 people who stormed the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida, for the Copa América soccer tournament final this month, the Qatari outlet BeIN Media reported on Tuesday, and many may face fines, prison, or even deportation.

Multiple Mexican corridos, or narrative folk songs, telling the story of former President Donald Trump’s narrow escape from death in a July 13 assassination attempt have gone viral in the past week on social media. The posts rejoice in Trump as divinely protected and a man who “has never known fear.”

Leaders of the Iran-backed Yemeni terrorist group Ansarullah, commonly known as the Houthis, threatened unnamed Arab states on Tuesday with an “answer” to their alleged cooperation with neighboring Israel, part of a larger statement of belligerence promising “unprecedented” attacks on Israel.

Police in Paris, France, documented an alleged gang rape on Monday after an unnamed Australian woman reportedly stumbled in front of a kebab shop accusing five men, whose identity reportedly remain unknown at press time, of capturing and raping her throughout the night from Saturday into Sunday.

Israel’s delegation to the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics received threatening emails referencing the 1972 Munich massacre, phone messages, and even fake invitations to their own funerals this weekend shortly before departing to France.

International Christian Concern (ICC), an organization dedicated to combatting religious persecution around the world, issued a statement on Monday declaring that President Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 American presidential race sparks “hope for a renaissance in religious freedom.”

Top Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declared on Monday that Russia is “not very surprised” by the shocking announcement President Joe Biden made the day before that he would no longer seek a second term as president, insisting that the U.S. presidential election was not a “priority” for Moscow.

The armed forces of South Korea began what they confirmed will be daily, unceasing loudspeaker broadcasts on the border with North Korea on Friday, typically featuring anti-communist content, news banned by the Kim regime, and South Korean popular music.

The Chinese state newspaper Global Times described Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) on Thursday as possessing a “clear inward or insular tendency” that concerns Chinese “experts,” as well as an “aversion of economic globalization” that runs afoul of Chinese Communist Party orthodoxy.

Former President Donald Trump accused an unnamed leader of reducing crime in his nation by “sending … murderers to the United States of America.” That comment in his Republican National Convention (RNC) speech on Thursday night apparently offended El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele, who cryptically vowed to take the “high ground” in response to the remark.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov suggested that his country could pursue new nuclear weapons deployments.

The chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) warned on Thursday that the pivotal shipping passage lost nearly 25 percent of its revenue in the 2023-2024 fiscal year, largely as a result of attacks on civilian commercial ships by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi terrorists.

Acting Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani told CNN on Wednesday that his rogue state would continue to “judicially and legally” attempt to bring American former President Donald Trump “to justice” for his decision to conduct an airstrike against senior Iranian terrorist Qassem Soleimani in 2020.

The Gold Star families of the 13 American servicemembers killed during the bombing of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport amid President Joe Biden’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 addressed the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Wednesday night, condemning Biden for forgetting their children.

Terrorists opened fire on a Shiite mosque outside of Muscat, Oman, launching a ten-hour siege that concluded with at least nine dead.

The government of Iran denied an anonymous report by the left-wing U.S. outlet CNN claiming American law enforcement authorities had discovered evidence of an Iranian plot to kill former President Donald Trump, insisting Wednesday it had nothing to do with the assassination attempt.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this week that he expects the return of former President Donald Trump to the White House to be manageable for his country and something he is “not afraid” of, Bloomberg News reported.

Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown warned voters that a second term for President Joe Biden would result in more American service members killed and wounded like he was in Afghanistan, sharing his story in a moving speech to the Republican National Convention on Tuesday.

The U.S. State Department and the Afghan Taliban terrorist organization both confirmed this weekend that at least two, and potentially three, American citizens are currently under Taliban criminal custody in Afghanistan.

President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he has chosen Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his vice presidential running mate, prompting widespread interest in the senator’s policy stances and what he brings to the ticket.

Chinese social media began circulating a video on Wednesday showing an anime version of the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

T-shirts and other merchandise featuring images of former President Donald Trump in the moments immediately after surviving an assassination attempt began appearing on Chinese e-commerce sites mere hours after the historic event, multiple outlets documented.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, himself a victim of an assassination attempt while campaigning for the executive office, credited divine intervention for former President Donald Trump’s survival after being shot at during a rally on Saturday.

The final of the Copa América, the world’s oldest soccer tournament, on Sunday night was marred by criminal chaos as mobs of thousands of people stormed the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida, overwhelming security and barreling into the venue without tickets.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued a statement on Sunday sending prayers to former President Donald Trump and America following a failed attempt to kill the presidential frontrunner on Saturday.

Argentine President Javier Milei, a libertarian and vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump, issued a statement in support of the 2024 presidential election frontrunner following an assassination attempt against him on Saturday evening, blaming the “international left” for the violence.

The Chinese government reacted with outrage on Thursday to the publication of this year’s NATO summit declaration, which explicitly referred to Beijing as a threat and suggested it could act in response to China’s close diplomatic relationship with Russia.

Canada’s Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre mocked Justin Trudeau for being treated like a “human piñata” during the NATO summit.

The annual NATO summit this week was marred by multiple reports of anonymous diplomats fretting that its host, President Joe Biden, was mentally incapable of running the country and would soon vacate the presidency of NATO’s most important country.

Cuba marked a somber third anniversary since the historic nationwide uprisings of July 11, 2021, on Wednesday, facing unprecedented economic disaster, increasingly violent communist repression, and the absence of hundreds of political prisoners still behind bars since that day.

“People familiar” told Bloomberg News on Wednesday that Ukraine is considering direct talks with Russia at a second peace summit before the U.S. presidential election in November – a report that followed rumors President Volodymyr Zelensky is worried about the health of American counterpart President Joe Biden.

The NATO military alliance accused the Chinese communist government of being a “decisive enabler” of its top threat, Russia, and the source of “sustained malicious cyber and hybrid activities” in the declaration following its annual summit this week.