The African nation of Lesotho declared a two-year “state of disaster” this week over “high rates of youth unemployment and job losses,” which have ostensibly been exacerbated by uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Friday, their first meeting in person since Rubio took office.
Australia, which passed a first-of-its-kind ban on social media for children under 16 in December, will soon require search engines to check the age of users before responding to their queries.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Thursday released an updated forecast for 2050 which anticipated soaring demand for oil in the medium and long term, once China’s economic outlook improves.
A criminal court in Ankara on Wednesday ordered a ban on Grok, the artificial intelligence (A.I.) platform developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI.
Yevgeny Primakov, head of Russia’s “cultural diplomacy” agency Rossotrudnichestvo, said on Tuesday that his government plans to launch a foreign aid and development program modeled on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) – the agency the Trump administration folded into the State Department due to its profligate spending.
Iran’s state-run PressTV on Wednesday heaped praise on Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Palestinians. Albanese was hit with sanctions by the U.S. State Department on Wednesday for engaging in lawfare against Israel and the United States.
A report published on Thursday by the British Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) found that Iran has become a physical and cyber threat to the UK that is nearly on par with Russia.
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen claimed on Thursday that “a number of the ship’s crew” from the cargo ship Eternity C have been kidnapped and are being held in a “safe location” after Houthi drones and grenades destroyed the ship on Tuesday.
Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru said on Tuesday he found it “deeply regrettable” that President Donald Trump announced he would impose reciprocal tariffs of 25 percent on exports from Japan.
China banned exports of several critical minerals to the United States in December, but enterprising American buyers have found ways to obtain the metals through third-party nations like Thailand and Mexico, and some Chinese companies have proven willing to work around the ban.
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen attacked and sank the Greek-operated bulk carrier ship Eternity C near the Houthi-controlled port city of Hodeidah on Monday.
China’s latest social media celebrity is a man with the surname Jiao, known online as the “Red Uncle,” who lured a large number of straight men into sexual intercourse by disguising himself as a woman, and then secretly filming the encounters.
The Trump administration on Tuesday officially revoked the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designation for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Syrian rebel group and former al-Qaeda faction that toppled dictator Bashar Assad in December and took control of Damascus.
Leading Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami called for the execution of President Donald Trump in a sermon on Friday.
President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that his administration is close to finalizing a trade deal with India. India hedged its bets last week by notifying the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it could impose up to $724 million in retaliatory tariffs against American goods if a trade deal is not reached.
The United Nations deployed teams to the Syrian coast on Monday as wildfires spread across Latakia province for the fifth day.
The Houthi insurgents of Yemen, possibly the last combat-effective Iranian proxy force in the Middle East, are threatening to continue missile attacks against Israel after a devastating Israeli airstrike on the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah.
A North Korean man crossed the forbidding DMZ on Thursday and made it to South Korea with help from the South Korean military.
Iran’s “Supreme Leader,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made on Saturday his first public appearance since Iran’s defeat in the 12-Day War.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is hopeful that his decade-long quest to obtain the F-35 joint strike fighter might finally succeed after an upbeat meeting with President Donald Trump at the NATO summit last week – but Trump does not seem to be in any hurry to give Erdogan his long-sought prize.
An American security company called Commvault commissioned a survey last week that found Australian businesses have recovered much more quickly from cyberattacks over the past year, thanks to improved preparedness and tighter government regulations on security.
Amazon’s big “Prime Day” sale runs from July 8 to 11 this year, arriving at the height of President Donald Trump’s tariff crusade.
Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday they hope to begin joint weapons production with allied nations, compensating for what they saw as a dangerous reduction in American arms shipments.
China’s aircraft carrier Shandong began a five-day visit to Hong Kong on Thursday, accompanied by two guided-missile destroyers and a missile frigate.
The South Korean government said Wednesday final negotiations have concluded on a $6 billion deal to provide Hyundai Rotem’s K2 tanks to Poland.
Ukrainian forensics expert Oleksandr Vysikan said on Thursday that Russia is upgrading Iranian suicide drones with more advanced technology to slip them past Ukrainian air defenses and deliver more powerful explosives.
Two Chinese nationals are charged with gathering intel about U.S. Navy bases and recruiting Navy personnel for espionage.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with the foreign ministers of America’s allies in the Quad – Australia, India, and Japan – on Tuesday to announce a new partnership on critical minerals, intended to reduce the dependence of all four nations on China for their supplies.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Tuesday that the uranium enrichment facility at Fordow was “seriously and heavily damaged” by U.S. bombers on June 21. He said Iranian officials are still assessing the full extent of the damage.
A rapidly escalating diplomatic feud between Russia and Azerbaijan has developed over the death of two Azeri men arrested by Russian police during an organized crime investigation who died in custody under mysterious circumstances. Azerbaijan has accused the Russians of torturing the men to death.
Maj. Gen. Yahya Rahim-Safavi, senior military adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Monday claimed Iran was capable of far more devastating retaliatory strikes against the U.S. and Israel than it has been able to launch thus far, and Iran is ready to attack targets beyond the Middle East if necessary.
The African nation of Ghana accuses Chinese nationals of running illegal gold mines in addition to the billions China has invested.
Turkish authorities on Monday arrested cartoonist Dogan Pehlevan for committing an “Islamophobic hate crime” by drawing a cartoon allegedly depicting Islam’s prophet Muhammad.
Iran’s top customer for oil, China, massively increased its purchases in the first three weeks of June just before Israel began striking Iranian nuclear sites.
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order terminating all U.S. sanctions on Syria, to “support the country’s path to stability and peace.”
The Canadian government on Friday ordered Chinese tech firm Hikvision to cease all operations in Canada, because the surveillance company’s continued presence would be “injurious to Canada’s national security.”
Indonesian officials said on Monday they will begin easing import restrictions and licensing requirements ahead of the July 9 deadline for U.S. tariff negotiations.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi said on Sunday that Iran could conceivably resume enriching uranium in a “matter of months,” although he resisted putting an exact timetable on the resurrection of Tehran’s nuclear weapons program after U.S. and Israeli airstrikes.
The Indian Foreign Ministry said that a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in China was unable to produce a joint statement because the members disagreed on the definition of “terrorism.”
