Paraguayan Senator Celeste Amarilla threatened to file a legal action against French soccer superstar Kylian Mbappé on Tuesday night, accusing him of “gender violence” after the athlete described her on social media as a “despicable woman unworthy of her post.”
Chinese Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, freed this weekend after President Donald Trump appealed to Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping, found himself in Beijing’s crosshairs after building an unprecedented vehicle for the Christian faith that flourished under coronavirus lockdowns.
The president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, issued a statement on Monday distancing himself from his organization’s decision to reverse a red card suspension issued to American player Folarin Balogun, allowing the striker to play against Belgium on Monday night at the World Cup.
The White House confirmed on Sunday that President Donald Trump will hold bilateral talks with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former al-Qaeda jihadist who toppled Bashar Assad, at this week’s NATO summit in Turkey.
The “supreme leader” of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei, was notably absent from funeral events for his father and predecessor Ali Khamenei this weekend – an absence emphasized by the presence of three of his brothers.
Venezuelans denounced the disappearance of an earthquake rescue volunteer who criticized the socialist regime.
Former South Korean national soccer team coach Hong Myung-bo, who resigned last week after a disappointing performance at the FIFA World Cup, reportedly fled the country to Los Angeles on Thursday just days after arriving to an angry mob demanding he return his salary.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced on Thursday that the outbreak of the rodent-spread hantavirus believed to have begun in April on the cruise ship M/V Hondius had finally concluded.
Venezuelan journalist Carlos Salazar revealed during a broadcast on Wednesday that his sources believe that Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, wanted in the United States on narco-terrorism charges, is blocking search and rescue crews from accessing buildings destroyed by last week’s earthquakes to protect stashes of drugs and cash buried there.
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al Shaibani visited Lebanon on Thursday for meetings with its president and highest-ranking leadership.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Wednesday that Canada would be competing in the 71st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, taking place in Bulgaria in May 2027.
Conservative President Nasry Asfura of Honduras rejected the possibility of his country offering aid to neighboring Venezuela.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited southern Lebanon on Tuesday and addressed Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops there.
Victims of the dual earthquakes in Venezuela last week recounted to various outlets this week the harrowing ordeal of trying to identify their loved ones among the bodies lying on the ground at the port of La Guaira, which the government is using as a makeshift morgue.
The horrifying situation in Venezuela – where dual earthquakes have toppled over 800 buildings, leaving potentially thousands buried under rubble – has the potential to tear apart the fragile alliances that have kept the post-Maduro socialist regime in power.
Eight players on the South Korean national soccer team and their former coach, Hong Myung-bo, attempted to sneak back into the country in the early morning hours of Tuesday after a disappointing loss at the FIFA World Cup last week but were met by dozens of angry fans holding up protest signs and demanding Hong return his salary.
The government of Qatar confirmed that American special negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are in Doha on Wednesday for discussions on implementing the memorandum of understanding signed this month with Iran, but both Qatar and Iran stated no direct conversations are expected to occur on this trip.
The socialist government of Venezuela has documented 1,450 people killed by twin massive earthquakes last week, over 3,000 injured, and potentially upwards of 50,000 people missing as international rescue missions deploy to the South American nation.
President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he will send representatives to meet their Iranian counterparts in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday after the Iranian Islamist regime allegedly asked for the resumption of talks.
President Lee Jae-myung of South Korea issued a statement on Sunday apologizing to the public after the nation’s soccer team failed to qualify for the knockout rounds of the FIFA World Cup.
Multiple news outlets with reporters on the ground in Beijing reported on Friday that a small aircraft, described by Reuters as about the “size of a car,” had crashed into the Chinese capital’s Citic Tower, its tallest building.
America’s expansive, near-immediate response to aid victims of the twin earthquakes in Venezuela on Wednesday has defied ominous predictions that streamlining the country’s international response by eliminating USAID would leave it flat-footed in the face of disaster.
The independent outlet Iran International reported on Thursday, citing a report from a South Korean think tank, that a defecting North Korean diplomat claimed the tunnel technology used to construct key Iranian nuclear facilities was sold to the rogue terrorist state by Pyongyang.
The Iranian terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued an ominous warning on Thursday claiming that ships attempting to navigate the Strait of Hormuz without using approved Iranian regime routes would face unspecified “dangers” in those waters.
The interim “president” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez issued several statements on Wednesday thanking the government of the United States for offering aid following a devastating earthquake in her country — a dramatic reversal from her previous stance of actively discouraging starving Venezuelans from accepting American aid.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced on Wednesday that trials for two potential therapeutics to fight the Ebola Bundibugyo virus would begin next week.
The foreign minister of Panama pilloried the Chinese Communist Party during remarks at the Organization of American States (OAS).
Rafael Grossi, the head of the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told reporters on Wednesday that his agency would “indeed” conduct inspections of Iranian nuclear sites, as the Iranian terror regime agreed to allow such inspections in its peace deal with America.
Communist North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un declared at a recent Party meeting that his regime would “thoroughly exercise the position of a nuclear weapons state” in the face of threats such as the “America first” ideology and “Zionism.”
Chinese soccer fans – with the backing of state-run propaganda outlets – are cheering on their referees and tchotchke-making factories at the FIFA World Cup in the absence of a competent soccer team.
A small claims court in Colombia formally accepted a legal action this week against the Colombian national soccer team and two of its most popular players, Luis Díaz and James Rodríguez, in which an individual accuses them of “treason to the nation” in response to the existence of an artificial intelligence (AI) image of the players.
Iranian government officials claimed on Tuesday that, as part of the memorandum of understanding signed with America last week, the Islamist regime would gain access to about $12 billion in frozen assets.
Animal rights activists documented the beginning of the Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival on Sunday, the summer solstice.
The Foreign Ministry of Iran did not contradict reports on Monday claiming that talks between the country and the United States in Switzerland were productive this weekend – going as far as to credit mediators Qatar and Pakistan with “major progress.”
Pope Leo XIV addressed the importance of fighting hunger during a visit to the Roman headquarters of the World Food Program.
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) of the United Kingdom announced on Friday that it had decided to temporarily suspend Karim Khan, formerly the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), as the ICC addresses allegations that Khan engaged in “non-consensual” sexual activity with a colleague.
The Cuban Communist Party debuted a set of economic reforms on Thursday allegedly intended to facilitate attracting foreign investment.
Large crowds in Seoul accusing the leftist-run government of South Korea of election fraud marked two weeks on Thursday of protests in front of an Olympic sports complex used to tally ballots in the June 3 election.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, one of the most prominent Marxist leaders in the democratic world, firmly rejected the label “leftist” and asserted that the world is not ideologically leftist in comments to other leaders at the G7 summit on Wednesday.
IAEA chief Rafael Grossi cheered the signing of a memorandum of understanding between America and Iran.
