The Egyptian National Defense Council announced that it had agreed to offer “all necessary and possible forms of support to Saudi Arabia” against the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier revealed on Monday that a judge in the state had issued an arrest warrant for Raúl Castro, the 95-year-old dictator of Cuba, on conspiracy to commit murder charges.
An Austrian Airlines flight departing from Tel Aviv, Israel, made an emergency landing in Bulgaria on Sunday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused French President Emmanuel Macron of “welcom[ing] atrocities against Iranians” and mockingly called for the French government to “listen” to hordes of violent rioters in a social media post on Sunday, responding to Macron blaming the war between Iran and America for the riots.
A Cuban man found floating off the coast of Florida last week on what appeared to be a one-man vessel made of wood and foam says he was attempting to fish and never intended to reach the United States.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a crowd at an election event on Thursday that he held a one-on-one conversation with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in summer 2025, allegedly to warn him not to allow the massacre of Druze people in his country.
Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee issued a statement on Thursday condemning conservative Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella for “interfering in American elections” after he officially endorsed the reelection of Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL).
A Catholic Church in Belarus blessed an AI-generated image of St. Carlo Acutis, an Italian teen known as the first Millennial saint, effectively granting the image the treatment typically reserved for an authentic icon.
Chinese state media triumphantly announced the opening of the New Yalu River Bridge connecting Dandong, China, and Sinuiju, North Korea on Thursday — a project believed to have been completed in 2014 but stalled by the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic and its diplomatic strain on bilateral ties.
Multiple sporting events scheduled to take place in Saudi Arabia soon were postponed this week, some as late as into the next year, in apparent response to the ongoing onslaught of missile and drone attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis of Yemen.
Rioters in Tirana, Albania, attempted to set various government buildings and luxury developments on fire in the capital on Tuesday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations (CBP AMO) published a shocking photo on Tuesday of a man, who they identified as a Cuban national, that American authorities reportedly rescued off the coast of Florida floating on what appeared to be a homemade raft large enough for only one person.
For the past month, Saudi Arabia has been facing a near-historic onslaught of drone and missile attacks by the jihadist, Iran-backed Houthis of Yemen. Almost entirely left out of the conversation are Turkey and Pakistan, who signed an agreement in Mecca to treat attacks on Saudi Saudi as attacks on their own homelands.
North Korean state media announced on Tuesday the opening of Pyongyang’s “National Defense Revolution Museum.”
The armed forces of Saudi Arabia confirmed that armed drones attacked Riyadh on Tuesday, presumably deployed by the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen and intending to target civilians in the national capital. The drones were reportedly destroyed before they could cause any damage.
A regional center for disease control and prevention (CDC) in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, China, issued an announcement implementing “plague risk prevention” protocol in response to an alleged case of pneumonic plague in neighboring Siberia, Russia, Chinese state media reported on Monday.
Multiple human rights activists accused 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay, a former U.N. high commissioner for human rights, this weekend of having used her position at the global agency to help China persecute Uyghur people.
Monday marks the 534th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus’s ships – the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María – to the Caribbean, the most significant historical event in modern human history.
The Russian state health agency Rospotrebnadzor and the governor of the Siberian region of Irkutsk announced on Thursday that authorities had completed all quarantine and monitoring measures following the suspicious death of a laboratory worker and found no trace of the spread of pneumonic plague.
Iranian “supreme leader” Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen in public since being named dictator, published a written message on Friday to celebrate National Police Week, celebrating the repression of his people to maintain “social order.”
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, notorious for using his power to persecute and otherwise silence conservatives, issued an order on Thursday demanding that former Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro begin a four-year prison sentence on charges of discussing politics in the United States.
Multiple federal agencies announced on Wednesday that they had seized 90 shipments of fuel illicitly intended to be sent from the United States to a sanctioned corporate entity in Cuba.
The government of South Korea announced Thursday it would recall its ambassador to Kyiv because it considered an apology from Ukraine for revealing its transfer of captured North Korean soldiers to the Asian country insufficiently contrite.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus published a diplomatic statement on Thursday stating that his agency has no evidence of any outbreak of plague in northeastern Russia — but revealing that Moscow had been less forthcoming than appropriate and demanding more information.
The government of Kenya confirmed its first Ebola death linked to the ongoing outbreak of the disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Tuesday, a Kenyan citizen who had traveled from the DRC through Uganda to Kenya last week.
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, formerly the head of the retired al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), made a brief visit to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and discuss their bilateral relationship.
The Brazilian right enjoyed one of its greatest electoral successes in history on Sunday, securing dominant control of the Senate, a significant seat margin in the Chamber of Deputies, and multiple critical governorships.
A spokesperson for the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) reportedly stated on Tuesday that the global agency had reached out to authorities in Russia for more information on a suspected case of deadly pneumatic plague tied to biological laboratory research in Siberia, but is still awaiting a formal response.
The government of Russia held another edition on Monday of its semi-regular “Moscow format” Central Asian talks that seek to integrate the jihadist government of Afghanistan into the region, celebrating the allegedly “successful” rule of the Taliban.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry defended the coffeehouse giant Starbucks this weekend after its decision to expand business into occupied East Turkistan, a region known for the ongoing Chinese Communist Party genocide of its indigenous communities, prompted global outrage.
Sen. Sergio Moro, the judge who oversaw the “Operation Car Wash” corruption investigation, was elected governor of Paraná state, Brazil.
Conservative Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro won Sunday night’s presidential election in Brazil, defeating incumbent socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – but did not pass the 50 percent threshold necessary to win the presidency outright, triggering a runoff election.
Leftist South Korean President Lee Jae-myung published an infuriated message on social media on Friday accusing the government of Ukraine of making him appear to be a “liar” and threatening “additional measures” against the allied nation should its leadership not apologize to Seoul.
The United Nations expressed alarm in a statement on Thursday that the Kigonze camp in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — which temporarily housed thousands of displaced people — had been entirely emptied, scattering its population during an uncontrolled Ebola outbreak.
Captain Smit Machchhar, the copilot of Flydubai Flight FZ1073, appeared on camera for the first time since the dramatic incident.
The Washington, DC, outlet Axios reported on Thursday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio personally ordered Iranian diplomats, allegedly in the United States to attend last week’s U.N. General Assembly, to leave the country after low-level discussions with the U.S. failed to produce results.
The Chinese Communist Party marked the establishment of the country as a communist “people’s republic” in 1949 on Thursday.
Prime Ministers Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Narendra Modi of India celebrated flydubai pilot Smit Machchhar on Wednesday after the details of how Flydubai Flight FZ1073 appeared to have thwarted a potential hijacking came to light.
A report published by two human rights organizations on Tuesday revealed the alleged existence, exposed interviews with North Korean witnesses, of a North Korea regime prison operating secretly in Beijing to help capture potential defectors.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a terrorist organization formally belonging to the Iranian armed forces, published a 26-page open letter to the American people on Tuesday inviting Americans to visit the Strait of Hormuz, insisting “death to America” did not mean Iran wished death on America, and suggesting the September 11, 2001, jihadist attacks were a “false-flag operation.”
