John Hayward

Two staffers with the Olympic broadcast team for Australia’s Nine Entertainment were reportedly attacked during an attempted robbery.

The U.S. State Department on Thursday offered a $10 million bounty for “information leading to the identification or location” of a dangerous North Korean hacker known as Rim Jong-hyok.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken departs for a six-nation tour of Asia, derisively described by Chinese state media as his “farewell tour.”

Two members of the Canadian Olympic team were dismissed and “sent home immediately” on Wednesday after they were caught using a drone to “record the New Zealand women’s football [soccer] team during practice.”

The United States and Canada scrambled fighters on Wednesday as Chinese and Russian nuclear-capable bombers flew off the coast of Alaska.

French police on Tuesday arrested a 40-year-old Russian man suspected of planning to “organize events likely to cause destabilization during the Olympic Games.”

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is running for chancellor of Oxford University despite being imprisoned in Pakistan.

Imprisoned 9/11 terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui fears he will be executed if former President Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election.

The terrorists of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) met with the relatively “moderate” Palestinian faction of Fatah in Beijing on Tuesday and issued a statement pledging “national unity.” Hamas pledged “national unity” three times in a single sentence.

On Friday, the same day Russia sentenced American reporter Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Street Journal to 16 years in prison on fanciful charges of “espionage,” it sentenced Russian-American reporter Alsu Kurmasheva of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) to 6.5 years for allegedly “spreading false information about the Russian military.”

The Chinese Communist government is planning to raise its retirement age for the second time in its history.

Persistently high inflation under the policies of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is decimating the Turkish tourism industry, as both foreign visitors and locals decide to save money by nipping over to Greece for holiday getaways.

Russia’s team for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France, consists of just 15 people — a massive fall from the 330 athletes Russia sent to the 2021 Tokyo Summer Games, thanks to the international fallout from Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.

The Indian state of Kerala issued a health alert on Monday after a 14-year-old boy died of the Nipah virus. Over a hundred other residents in the area have been identified as high-risk potential patients.

China and the Philippines announced on Sunday they have reached a “provisional arrangement” to allow resupply missions to reach the BRP Sierra Madre, the beached ship that functions as a Filipino outpost on the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea.

The Chinese government had no official comment on President Joe Biden terminating his reelection campaign, but Chinese social media buzzed with reactions on Sunday.

China sent troops to Belarus for training for the first time, conducting an exercise called “Eagle Assault” near the Polish border.

The U.N. reported that more than 532,000 people departed Afghanistan since April, while more than 858,000 entered it.

Russia bragged that the worldwide tech outage did not affect its airlines and banks, thanks to its countermeasures against Western sanctions.

A Russian court on Friday sentenced Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in a high-security penal colony.

Communist Party censors are cracking down hard on a viral sensation in Chinese social media: “Garbage Time of History.”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blamed American media for the delay in negotiations to swap captive American journalist Evan Gershkovich.

Kenyan police banned protests in Nairobi after demonstrations against the government of President William Ruto turned violent.

Chinese green energy companies Jinko Solar, TCL Zhonghuan Renewable Energy Technology, and Sungrow announced on Tuesday they have signed major deals with Saudi Arabia to build wind, solar, and energy storage projects. 

A group in New Delhi known as Hindu Sena (“Hindu Army”) prays for the safety of Donald Trump after Saturday’s assassination attempt.

Soon after former president Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania, Chinese consumers went wild for T-shirts bearing the now-iconic photo of a bloodied Trump rising up from the stage and raising his fist beneath an American flag.

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen attacked two more ships with drones, missiles, and even crewed vessels on Monday.

Chinese businessman Guo Wengui – also known as Miles Guo and several other names – was convicted on nine out of 12 counts for a billion-dollar fraud scheme by a New York jury on Wednesday.

India summoned the Ukrainian ambassador to express its concerns about President Volodymyr Zelensky’s criticism of the Putin-Modi meeting.

China signed a deal to import $25 million in Afghan cotton, providing income to the Taliban and muddying China’s cotton supply lines.

South Korean media revealed on Tuesday that senior North Korean diplomat Ri Il-kyu, 52, defected from the North Korean embassy in Cuba in November.

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denounced “acts of terror and terrorism” on Sunday, seemingly in response to the assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday evening, although Ahmadinejad did not refer to Trump by name in his message.

Former Pakistani prime minister and assassination attempt survivor Imran Khan wished Donald Trump a speedy recovery.

China’s state-run Global Times says the attempted assassination of Donald Trump proves U.S. politics have become “extreme and reckless.”

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio wished former president Donald Trump a “speedy recovery” and denounced political violence.

According to North Korean state media, dictator Kim Jong-un sent a message of sympathy to former president Donald Trump and his family on Saturday night after the failed assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania.