North Korea’s state propaganda agency confirmed on Wednesday that communist dictator Kim Jong-un entertained a call the day before from Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, who has emerged as Pyongyang’s favorite patron following the signing of a mutual defense treaty last year.
The U.S. State Department published its annual global human rights reports on Tuesday, featuring a profile on the Chinese Communist Party that accused that government of a host of atrocities including genocide, slavery, worker abuse, forced abortions, and various forms of torture against dissidents.
The U.S. State Department will announce on Wednesday that it had imposed visa restrictions on unnamed government officials from Grenada and several African states, in addition to members of the Cuban Communist Party, in relation to Havana’s longstanding Cuban health worker slavery scheme.
Canada is facing hundreds of “out of control” fires this week, prompting tens of thousands of evacuations from British Columbia to Newfoundland and Labrador – but climate change “experts” say the government can do nothing to stop the fires and locals should abandon dreams of mitigation protocol.
Top Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid demanded that Washington consider handing over the former Afghan embassy in America to the jihadist terror organization in a recent interview, lamenting the lack of a “positive response” to the request so far.
Xi Jinping told socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva that China would support Brazil in “defending [its] national sovereignty.”
President Donald Trump confirmed on Friday the scheduling of a highly anticipated meeting between himself and Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, to take place on August 15.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a phone conversation on Monday with his Indian counterpart, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in which he reinforced President Donald Trump’s position that New Delhi must cut off its purchases of Russian oil.
China celebrated reports from South Korea indicating that police had opened an investigation into an anti-China conservative group.
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Monday to discuss both their relationships with the United States – an attempt by Putin to reestablish Moscow’s importance to Armenia after abandoning it amid a genocide.
A senior official with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog body, is expected to land in Tehran on Monday for talks with the rogue Islamist regime – less than two months after Iran outlawed cooperation with the agency.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and First Lady Olena Zelenska visited Japan this week seeking opportunities for cooperation in both politics and business, particularly investments in the reconstruction of post-war Ukraine.
Iranian state media confirmed the execution on Wednesday of Rouzbeh Vadi, identified as one of the nation’s top nuclear scientists, on charges of alleged espionage and cooperation with Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency.
The U.S. State Department abstained from judging massive constitutional changes in El Salvador this week that removed term limits on the presidency, asserting the sovereignty of the country and disagreeing with the assessment that the country is comparable to other dictatorships.
Socialist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told reporters in remarks on Tuesday that he had no intention of negotiating on trade with President Donald Trump following the imposition of a 50-percent tariff on his country, opting to contact Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping instead.
Protests continued this week throughout India in response to the prosecution of two Catholic nuns and a third Christian on charges of “conversion” and “human trafficking” for helping accompany a young Christian woman to a job opportunity.
President Donald Trump could “continue his legacy” of fighting animal abuse by imposing tariffs on high-cruelty Chinese animal products, PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk wrote in a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick this week.
The Chinese state newspaper Global Times celebrated this weekend that the country’s box office had hit a single-day record for the summer, earning $972 million on the back of multiple war propaganda films demonizing the Japanese.
The Argentine newspaper Clarín described on Sunday an abrupt halt in a “parade of pregnant women” flying into the country from Russia seeking citizenship for their babies, passports accepted in the West for themselves, and a host of public benefits from their new host government.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed on Monday that his troops fighting in Kharkiv had faced not just Russian invading forces but mercenaries from a variety of Asian and African countries imported into the war theater.
The government of South korea revealed on Sunday that leftist President Lee Jae-myung had proposed at a recent cabinet meeting a massive initiative to silence alleged “fake news” on YouTube.
Top Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov emphasized in remarks on reporters on Monday that strongman Vladimir Putin fully controls the nation’s foreign policy, apparently dismissing Security Council official Dmitry Medvedev’s regular nuclear threats as irrelevant despite his high status in the Russian government.
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele condemned critics of his political party’s decision to end presidential term limits in the country, noting in a message on Sunday that the vast majority of “developed” countries allow the indefinite reelection of prime ministers and claiming any concern is in bad faith.
A report claimed that U.S. sanctions on Alexandre de Moraes have caused a visible rift at Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF).
The Chinese Foreign Ministry insisted on Thursday that an escalating outbreak of Chikungunya, a viral disease carried by mosquitoes, in southern Guangdong province was “under control” and the Communist Party was adequately keeping the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) updated on the situation.
The government of Cambodia confirmed on Friday that it is planning to nominate President Donald Trump for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for his contributions to ending the nation’s hostilities with Thailand.
President Donald Trump announced a “full and complete trade deal” with South Korea on Thursday evening — an agreement committing $350 billion in investment into the United States and significantly eroding Korean automaker advantages in the U.S. market.
A senior United Nations official informed the Security Council on Monday that, according to the organization’s estimates, over 2 million Syrians have been able to return to their homes in the aftermath of the collapse of the Bashar Assad regime in December.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi repeated his demand the United States pay some form of “compensation” for bombing the nation’s illicit nuclear sites in an interview published Thursday, stating Tehran has zero appetite for resuming talks with the West.
A group of 599 foreign nationals with criminal records that Canada’s Border Services Agency (CBSA) intended to deport “have gone missing,” the Globe and Mail revealed in a shocking report on Tuesday.
Growing threats to democracy in Colombia are being fueled in part by a cocaine boom under a Marxist president, Colombian Senator Paloma Valencia told Breitbart News on Wednesday, urging America to help fight the influence of criminal drug gangs.
South Korea’s Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol and the executive chairman of tech megacompany Samsung, Lee Jae-yong, both boarded planes headed towards America on Tuesday, seeking to find a resolution to the ongoing trade tensions between Washington and Seoul.
President Donald Trump announced an impressive trade agreement with the European Union on Sunday that, according to the White House, would result in $600 billion in European investment in America and a dramatic expansion in American exports to the continent.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry reacted with vitriol on Monday to a new round of sanctions by Ukraine on individuals and businesses.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney described his country’s trade negotiations with the United States as “intense” and “complex” on Monday, failing to express confidence that the parties would meet the August 1 deadline for an agreement to prevent Washington from imposing a 35-percent tariff on Canadian goods.
Senior officials in Syria are scheduling an election to populate the nation’s Parliament, expected to take place in mid-September, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) revealed on Sunday.
Kim Jong-un’s sister Kim Yo-jong published an infuriated screed condemning leftist South Korean President Lee Jae-myung for making overtures to North Korea.
The governments of Thailand and Cambodia, alongside Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, announced on Monday that they had agreed to an immediate ceasefire in an escalating border dispute that displaced over 100,000 people in less than a week.
The government of South Korea confirmed on Friday that officials in the administration of President Donald Trump canceled talks scheduled for Friday intended to negotiate a new bilateral trade agreement, hours before Finance Minister Koo Yun-Cheol was set to board a plane to Washington.
The American embassy in Brazil published a Portuguese-language announcement on Wednesday urging Brazilians in the United States illegally to leave the country, comparing them to the classic movie alien E.T.
