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The Chinese government newspaper Global Times published an effusive homage to pop star Taylor Swift on Monday, thanking her for scheduling a “convenient and accessible” concert in Singapore and quoting fans declaring her an “inspiration to many.”

China launched its “two sessions” — the annual meetings of its top lawmaking body, the National People’s Congress (NPC), and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), an “advisory” body with over 2,000 members — on Monday, seeking to devise ways to reverse its increasingly concerning economic decline.

Israeli public broadcaster Kan confirmed on Sunday that it would ask songwriters to rewrite submissions in consideration to represent the country at the Eurovision Song Contest after reports indicated that the contest would reject a song with references to the Hamas October 7 slaughter because it was too “political.”

A senior leader within the Yemeni Houthi terrorist organization promised on Sunday to sink more British ships after U.K. and coalition forces confirmed the sinking of the British-owned MV Rubymar, a commercial ship with no known ties to Israel, which the Houthis struck with a ballistic missile in mid-February.

The government of El Salvador banned all gender ideology content from the nation’s public school system, education minister José Mauricio Pineda announced this week.

Freedom House ranked China one of the world’s least free countries in the 2024 edition of its flagship Freedom in the World report.

The leader of the Yemeni terrorist organization Ansarallah, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, ominously promised “surprises” in a speech on Thursday for American and allied forces attempting to contain his group’s campaign to disrupt global commercial shipping in the Red Sea.

The Miami Herald revealed this week that Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) traveled to communist Cuba.

Both the head of Iran’s terrorist IRGC and “Supreme Leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued desperate pleas this week urging Iranians to vote.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky briefly visited Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, receiving a warm greeting from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and engaging in what Zelensky called a “candid and meaningful conversation.”

Iran’s top diplomat on Afghanistan issues reportedly claimed in an interview on Wednesday that his country is studying the best way to construct a border wall to protect itself from terror threats emanating from its eastern neighbor.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping has for decades looked the other way – or worse – as fentanyl-pushing organized crime syndicates thrive in China, Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer reveals in his new book, “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans.”

The government of Iran issued an homage on Tuesday to Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old U.S. Air Force member who died after self-immolating on Sunday to protest Israel’s self-defense operations against the jihadist terror organization Hamas.

Saudi Arabia never finalized its membership in the BRICS economic and political coalition, a South African diplomat confirmed.

South Korea filed its first legal complaint against striking doctors on the grounds that the doctors were engaging in criminal behavior.

The prime minister of the legitimate, but powerless, government of Yemen arrived in Moscow on Monday to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and encourage the Russian government to contain the threat of Houthi terrorism in the country.

The Houthis celebrated that civilized nations such as America, Israel, and Britain have lost their “influence on international waters.”

Widespread reports in American and Venezuelan media, beginning with allegations in the Wall Street Journal on February 22 and recently reported by the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional on Sunday, suggest the socialist regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro has stopped accepting Venezuelans deported from the United States.

Ukrainian Defense Intelligence agency leader Kyrylo Budanov claimed in remarks on Sunday that he had reason to believe Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whose death the Russian government announced on February 16, died of “natural” causes, not state-sponsored homicide.

Argentine President Javier Milei met former American President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday, their first in-person meeting ever and the culmination of a year of mutual support and praise in public.

Some major hospitals in South Korea have canceled as many as 50 percent of scheduled surgeries between Tuesday and Friday as a result of a massive health worker walkout in which nearly 80 percent of trainee doctors have tendered resignations to their employers.

Participants at an ongoing meeting of the top diplomats of G20 states achieved “virtual unanimity” on demanding the establishment of a state of “Palestine” carved out of Israel, host country Brazil declared on Thursday – in apparent disregard of the fact that both Israel and the government of Gaza, the terrorist organization Hamas, reject that proposal.

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, issued what he described as a “warning to a friend” during his address at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday evening, asking Americans to fight “global elites” who “hate our success and fear yours.”

China’s top diplomat on Afghanistan, Yue Xiaoyong, repeated the Communist Party’s demands this week for America to end sanctions and allow Taliban terrorists to access frozen Afghan government funds.

Reports in Iranian media claimed a “suicide drone” hit an American base in eastern Syria. The Pentagon has not confirmed them.

The only tangible concession from China as a result of genocidal dictator Xi Jinping’s four-hour meeting with counterpart Joe Biden in California in November – a promise to send pandas to America – will be fulfilled soon, the Communist Party animal agency confirmed on Thursday.

Lionel Messi published a groveling video on Weibo on Tuesday in which he insisted he had no “political” objections to China.

The Pentagon’s Africa Command said on Tuesday that it was investigating claims by the jihadist terrorist organization al-Shabaab that an American drone strike targeting its members killed two Cuban slave doctors whom the jihadists had abducted in 2019.

A senior leader within the Taliban terrorist organization complained in public remarks that cameramen working for news organizations were allegedly violating Islamic law by taking pictures and videos, Afghan media outlet Tolo News reported on Tuesday.

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said in an interview published Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority, which controls the West Bank, was a “capable and credible” entity that should be considered a contender to govern both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, united in a hypothetical state of “Palestine.”

A coalition of 61 organizations representing Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz people, and others facing an ongoing genocide campaign by the Chinese Communist Party published a letter on Tuesday urging Congress to recognize their homeland, East Turkistan, as an “occupied country” enduring Chinese colonization.

Saudi Arabia documented four cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in the past six months, the Saudi news outlet al-Arabiya, citing the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) reported on Tuesday.

The head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, Esmail Qaani, told Iran’s terrorist proxies in Iraq to pause attacks on American troops, Reuters revealed in a report citing anonymous sources on Sunday.

Taiwan authorities reportedly chased away a Chinese “fishing” vessel, causing it to capsize and killing half the men on board last week.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivered a speech at the Munich Security Conference this weekend partially focused on discouraging Western businesses from seeking to invest elsewhere to avoid funding China’s extensive list of ongoing human rights atrocities, warning that divesting from China would be “a historical mistake.”

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter on Thursday to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Gary Gensler in response to news reports that Shein, a Chinese online retailer that sells women’s clothing at steep discounts, is seeking an initial public offering (IPO) on the U.S. stock market, warning the company is “subject to the whim” of Beijing and thus a threat to investors.