Paloma Dominguez Caballero, 1, died last week less than three days after receiving her scheduled 12-month vaccinations from a government clinic in Cuba. Subsequent reports on Sunday indicated that as many as 24 other infants are in “critical condition” after similar doctor’s visits.
The Kurdish city of Kobani, straddling the Turkey-Syria border, is preparing to welcome dictator Bashar al-Assad’s troops as part of an agreement between Ankara and Damascus, Kurdish authorities confirmed Sunday.
China’s state-run propaganda outlet Global Times condemned Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Monday for traveling to Hong Kong and dressing in black, the color of pro-democracy protesters which, according to the outlet, made him “synonymous with a thug.”
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping threatened anti-communist dissidents with a gruesome death in remarks Sunday during a visit to Nepal, warning that anyone defying China’s illegal territorial claims will have “their bodies smashed and bones ground to powder.”
Turkish government outlets and the Syrian Defense Forces (SDF), the mostly Kurdish militias mainly responsible for defeating the Islamic State in that country, offered wildly differing death tolls on both sides on Friday following Ankara’s decision to invade Syria this week.
China’s English-language propaganda outlets abruptly ceased publishing outlandish invective against the NBA on Friday, their front pages dominated instead by vitriol against Taiwan and pro-Xi Jinping stories.
Radio Rebelde, the website of a state-sponsored radio station in Cuba, published an article urging Cubans to eat banana and plantain peels and use them as painkillers and skin cleansers, astute online observers noted on Thursday.
A pro-communist group organized by Chinese officials will award a taxi driver HK$520,000 ($66,297.40) after ramming his car into a crowd of pro-democracy protesters, the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported on Thursday.
The Disney-owned sports network ESPN aired the Communist Party’s preferred map of China during a broadcast Wednesday morning – a map an international legal tribunal ruled illegal in 2016 that violates the sovereignty of five different countries.
President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen asserted that her nation is “the first line of defense for democratic values,” standing mere miles from its biggest threat in the world, during a speech observing the Republic of China’s National day on Thursday.
Seven Latin American nations and the Organization of American States (OAS) issued statements supporting Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno in passing conservative economic reforms and accusing Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro of helping instigate riots against Moreno.
The Chinese Communist Party has razed dozens of Uighur Muslim cemeteries in western Xinjiang province to create more “civilized” areas, the Agence-France Presse (AFP) reported on Wednesday.
The Iranian Islamic regime and its proxy government in Damascus issued statements Wednesday condemning Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for planning an invasion of Syrian Kurdistan.
China’s Global Times defended Chinese internet users allegedly acting independently of the government for praising the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as revenge for an NBA executive expressing support for the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
A senior Russian official suggested that Moscow could be a top partner to Cuba should it ever decide to build a nuclear power plant, the island independent outlet Cubanet reported Monday – the latest ploy to expand Rosatom’s reach into underdeveloped allied nations.
The administration of President Volodymyr Zelensky will open an investigation into Ukraine stripping former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili of his Ukrainian citizenship, rendering him a stateless person, and deporting him to Poland last year, authorities announced on Monday.
The Chinese government newspaper Global Times warned “global brands” to “make their members speak cautiously” on Chinese political issues Monday in response to an ongoing controversy following an NBA executive lending support to pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
Police in India arrested nine Tibetans, India media revealed on Monday, suspected of planning protests against Chinese Communist Party chairman Xi Jinping. Police have not offered any evidence that those arrested were planning any criminal behavior.
At least 10,000 people flooded Kyiv’s Independence Square on Sunday to protest President Volodymyr Zelensky opting to agree to a deal that may bring elections to eastern Ukraine, which Russia has invaded and colonized.
An eruption of protests in Ecuador against socially conservative economic measures resulted in the death of an injured young protester Sunday after fellow participants in the outrage blocked his ambulance.
Women who have survived China’s concentration camps for Muslim ethnic minorities reported widespread rape, forced abortions, forced sterilization, and other extreme sexual human rights atrocities in accounts published this weekend.
North Korea’s Foreign Ministry called negotiations with America on its illegal nuclear development “sickening” in a statement Sunday, accusing Washington of offering “empty hope” and refusing any further talks in the near future.
President of Ecuador Lenin Moreno declared a 60-day state of emergency on Thursday after transportation workers and leftist groups began rioting against the repeal of a decades-old government gasoline subsidy.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte lambasted international aid groups and “so-called friends” who have criticized his anti-drug policies at a forum in Sochi, Russia, on Friday, accusing them of going on “self-serving crusades.”
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s first move since returning from a trip to Beijing was to ban individuals from wearing face coverings on Friday, including both masks and face paint.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to accept, at least in theory, an agreement that would bring elections to Russian-occupied Donbas, triggered protests in the heart of Kiev on Wednesday night from those who feel an agreement with Moscow would jeopardize Ukraine’s sovereignty.
A coalition of minorities facing persecution by the Chinese Communist Party organized a protest outside of the United Nations headquarters in New York Tuesday to call for solidarity for the victims of Beijing’s totalitarian regime.
The superintendent of Hong Kong’s police force dismissed criticism of officers shooting a teenager in the chest during protests by claiming on Wednesday that “professional firearms training” is necessary to judge if the incident constituted police brutality.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro announced a plan to install orchards and chicken coops in every classroom as a means to combat the hunger epidemic that his socialist policies created, Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional reported Wednesday.
President Martín Vizcarra of Peru dissolved the nation’s Congress on Monday after it denied him the power to check judicial appointments.
