Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, commonly referred to by his initials, MBS, welcomed Chinese dictator Xi Jinping to Riyadh with a gregarious handshake and lavish ceremony featuring a 21-gun salute, a royal band performance, and jets painting the sky in the colors of the Chinese flag.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin admitted to operational issues for the Russian military in the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, including “soldiers … who have left their combat positions,” in remarks on Wednesday to his country’s human rights agency.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) predicted on Thursday that leftist President Joe Biden’s decision to trade imprisoned basketball player Brittney Griner for notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as the “merchant of death,” would result in people dying as rogue states interpreted the move as open season to arrest Americans.
Dina Boluarte became Peru’s sixth president since 2016 late on Wednesday following the impeachment and arrest of now-former President Pedro Castillo, a widely unpopular communist who had attempted to dissolve the nation’s Congress and invalidate the Constitution on the same day.
Four Republican lawmakers sent a letter this week to the heads of Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security expressing concern that the Inflation Reduction Act may encourage companies to import solar panels to America made in China by Uyghur slaves.
Attorneys who have volunteered to help represent people who participated in the nationwide protests that began in late November in China say that police have begun persecuting them, raiding their offices and limiting their social media access, reports revealed on Tuesday.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping arrived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday for a visit expected to result in nearly $30 billion in trade agreements with the Arab kingdom.
Time magazine announced on Wednesday that it had chosen Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky its person of the year for 2022, calling it an obvious choice in light of the head of state’s ubiquity and his ability to “galvanize the world” around his cause.
The government of Japan announced on Monday that it had prepared a humanitarian aid project for Afghanistan worth $106.7 million “implemented by the U.N. agencies,” suggesting an attempt to keep the money out of Taliban hands.
United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan visited Qatar on Monday, meeting with the nation’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and congratulating the country on hosting the FIFA World Cup, the world’s most prestigious soccer tournament.
The government of Saudi Arabia confirmed on Tuesday that Chinese dictator Xi Jinping will travel to the country to attend two summits from December 7 to 9, Xi’s third trip abroad since the pandemic and his furthest away from home.
Chinese former President Hu Jintao, who presided over the country and Communist Party before current dictator Xi Jinping, did not attend the official state funeral for his predecessor Jiang Zemin on Tuesday.
Iranian officials as of Monday have provided no evidence nor confirmed remarks by top prosecutor Mohammad Jafar Montazeri this weekend claiming that the country’s Islamist “morality police” had been “abolished.”
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), which represents the interest of unionized workers in a variety of fields in South Korea, is planning a nationwide strike for Tuesday in solidarity with an ongoing truckers’ strike the ruling conservative political party has denounced as unpatriotic.
The Chinese Communist Party, through its state propaganda arms, made its strongest push yet this weekend to convince concerned foreign investors and outraged citizens that it will soon abandon its repressive “zero-Covid” policies, which require mass lockdowns, house arrest, and internment of thousands in quarantine camps.
“Years of mounting government repression” is driving a growing, and unusually interconnected, protest movement within China fueled only in part by opposition to coronavirus lockdowns, Michael Abramowitz, the president of Freedom House, told Breitbart News.
Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi visited Iran’s Kurdistan province on Thursday – the home province of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman whom Iranian “morality police” beat to death for allegedly wearing a scarf improperly – dismissing months of nationwide protests and claiming the nation’s ethnic Kurds supported the Islamic regime.
The American ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns, published a message of condolence on Thursday following the passing of Jiang Zemin, a former president of China responsible for the post-Tiananmen Square crackdown on anti-communist dissent and the live harvesting of organs from Falun Gong prisoners.
The Chinese state propaganda newspaper Global Times announced on Thursday that scientists at Wuhan University had concluded that the omicron variant of Chinese coronavirus presented a “weaker ability to cause diseases” compared to previous iterations of the pathogen.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry demanded in remarks on Wednesday that U.S. armed forces make “substantial and substantive cuts to its nuclear arsenal,” with the goal of ultimately ending America’s nuclear program.
The international soccer organization FIFA claimed in a statement on Wednesday that it had intervened to prevent officials in Qatar from seizing “permitted items” from fans entering stadiums, a message interpreted to mean that fans will now be allowed to bring LGBT messages and anti-Iran banners into the games.
Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan, the woman dictator Xi Jinping tasked with enforcing his brutal Chinese coronavirus lockdowns, issued public remarks on Wednesday claiming Beijing would soon “optimize” its coronavirus response with “new tasks in epidemic prevention and control.”
The armed forces of India published videos this week showing the nation’s soldiers ordering birds of prey known as “kites” to seize and destroy small drones mid-air.
The Chinese Communist Party’s media arms finally acknowledged on Wednesday a wave of anti-regime protests that swept the nation over the weekend, blaming unspecified “hostile forces” for creating artificial discord.
Former Chinese President and Communist Party Secretary Jiang Zemin, whose main priority after taking office was justifying the Tiananmen Square massacre and mercilessly crushing any further dissident, died on Wednesday at age 96.
The head of a top Qatari government agency admitted this week to “between 400 and 500” worker deaths during the construction of facilities for the FIFA World Cup — a much larger figure than the 40 the Islamist regime had admitted to in the past.
Images of FIFA World Cup coverage on China’s state broadcaster appeared to remove crowd shots showing large groups of people gathering without wearing sanitary masks, multiple international outlets observed this weekend.
The Chinese Communist Party, through its state propaganda outlets, insisted on Monday it would not relent on its brutal lockdown and quarantine policies known as “zero-Covid,” apparently responding to, but not acknowledging, protests in major cities nationwide over the weekend.
North Korea’s communist dictator Kim Jong-un made a second public appearance with his unnamed tween daughter on Sunday at an event to celebrate Pyongyang’s most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the Hwasongpho-17.
Cuban Deputy Prime Minister Alejandro Gil confirmed this weekend that the Communist Party’s puppet “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel secured a $100-million “donation” from the Chinese government during his visit to Beijing.
The Chinese Communist Party, through its state propaganda arms, insisted on Monday that it would “rectify,” but not eliminate, its years-old Chinese coronavirus lockdown policies – which prompted a wave of protests over the weekend in the country’s largest cities.
Iranian media confirmed the arrest on Thursday of one of the country’s most prominent soccer stars, the ethnic Kurdish player Voria Ghafouri, for supporting the ongoing anti-regime protests across the country.
Cuba’s figurehead “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel landed in China on Thursday and met with dictator Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday to discuss cooperation between socialist countries, economic development, and their mutual distaste for America.
The Mideast Islamist state of Qatar has faced years of criticism for its widely documented human rights abuses and accusations of bribery after FIFA awarded it the hosting rights to this year’s World Cup soccer tournament.
A communist mob armed with flagpoles bearing hammer and sickle insignia descended on a peaceful group of pro-freedom protesters who organized outside of the Cuban embassy in Mexico City on Monday, beating them and reportedly breaking one of the protesters’ fingers.
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria announced on Tuesday the discovery of a massive oil reserve in the north of the country that may hold over a billion barrels of crude.
China’s repressive “zero-Covid” policy – which imposes brutal lockdowns, stays in dirty quarantine camps, police brutality, starvation, and lack of access to health care on citizens to allegedly protect them from Chinese coronavirus infections – has made protests and riots part of a new, post-pandemic new normal in the country.
Local police in Yinchuan, China – part of the region home to the nation’s Hui Muslims – apologized on Wednesday after a video began circulating of an apparent health worker slamming a man to the ground and pinning his knee on the man’s neck.
Pro-regime publications in Iran excused the poor performance of its soccer team in its FIFA World Cup debut with multiple articles on Tuesday blaming the anti-Islamist protest movement that has rallied unabated for months for waging “psychological warfare” against the players.
A bizarre scene unfolded in Kerala, India, as mobs of fanatics of the Argentine and Brazilian soccer teams brawled with sticks and iron bars in a cemetery near a FIFA World Cup event, reports detailed on Monday.
