Thomas Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey who was also named as special envoy to Syria last week, raised the American flag over the ambassadorial residence in Damascus on Thursday for the first time since 2012.
Franklin Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse, met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Berlin on Wednesday.
Nigerian Mining Minister Dele Alake announced on Monday that his government will commission two large lithium processing plants from Chinese firms this year, one of them valued at $600 million and the other at $200 million.
At least five people were killed on Tuesday when a huge explosion ripped through the Gaomi Youdao Chemical Company plant in Weifang, China.
South Korea’s presidential election will be held on June 3. The last round of polls taken before polling is suspended under South Korean election law showed Lee Jae-myung, candidate of the left-wing Democratic Party (DP), with a solid but shrinking lead over Kim Moon-soo of the incumbent People Power Party (PPP).
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday dismissed President Donald Trump’s angry criticism of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin by suggesting Trump was suffering from “emotional overstrain.”
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a report on Friday that found North Korea has produced enough fissile material — i.e. atomic bomb fuel — to build up to 90 nuclear warheads, a dramatic increase from the 20 to 60 warheads it was believed capable of building last year.
Independent reports out of China revealed that a Chinese factory workers upset by unpaid wages decided to set fire to a textile plant in Sichuan last week.
French President Emmanuel Macron announced over $10 billion in deals with Vietnam on Monday, including an agreement for Vietnam to buy 20 French-made Airbus planes.
China’s National Nutrition and Health Steering Committee published a set of dietary guidelines on Sunday designed to address China’s rapidly growing problem with obesity.
Japan’s economy contracted in the first quarter of 2025 – its first contraction in a year and a much worse showing than analysts expected.
Over 180 miners remain trapped in a South African gold mine after its hoist system was damaged in an accident.
House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party chair Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) wrote to the CEOs of hotel chains Hilton, Marriott, and Hyatt on Wednesday, asking them to explain why their websites and other materials refer to Taiwan as “Taiwan, China” – the preferred nomenclature of the Chinese Communist Party.
The State Department on Thursday accused Sudan’s military of using chemical weapons during its long and brutal civil war against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The junta that rules Sudan denied the allegations and accused Washington of siding with the RSF.
The Chinese Communist government on Friday condemned the United States for ending Harvard University’s much-abused international student program.
Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday condemned the murder of two young Israeli diplomats in Washington, DC, “in the strongest terms” and said that “the perpetrators must be brought to justice.”
The authoritarian governments of China and Russia did not respond favorably to President Donald Trump’s announcement of the “Golden Dome” missile shield program on Tuesday.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney applauded President Donald Trump’s announcement of the “Golden Dome” missile shield.
A fresh wave of protests has broken out in cities across China, as angry workers demand their unpaid wages, and residents repel against a myriad of new taxes and fees imposed by cash-strapped municipal governments.
A senior Pakistani security official said on Tuesday that India and Pakistan have agreed to withdraw the troop reinforcements they rushed to the border during their week-long conflict this month.
China claims W.H.O.’s Pandemic Agreement was guided by dictator Xi Jinping’s “vision of building a global community of health for all.”
The U.S. State Department on Monday announced a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the “disruption of financial mechanisms” in South America for the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah.
The State Department said on Monday it would place visa restrictions on the “owners, executives, and senior officials” of Indian travel agencies accused of “knowingly facilitating illegal immigration to the united States.”
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen declared a “maritime blockade” of Israel’s Haifa port on Monday – a blockade they presumably intend to enforce with missile and drone attacks on shipping.
The weight-loss drug market is booming in the wake of Ozempic’s success, and China is preparing its own drugs to compete.
The Center for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS) in New Delhi on Sunday accused China of giving air defense and satellite intelligence support to Pakistan during its clash with India in early May.
Russia’s state statistical agency, Rosstat, reported on Friday that first-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) growth was only 1.4 percent, a steep decline from 4.5 percent growth in the last quarter of 2024.
The United Nations estimated in a report this week that half a million refugees have returned to Syria since the fall of dictator Bashar Assad, with another million expected to follow by the end of this year.
The Chinese government reversed its decision to close the Fengyi Elementary School in China’s northern Hebei province this week, following huge protests by angry parents.
Nigeria has signed a major agreement with a Chinese arms manufacturer to build a munitions factory on Nigerian soil.
President Donald Trump’s visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) included a deal on Thursday that will allow the Emiratis to purchase advanced semiconductors from the United States, paving the way for them to build the largest artificial intelligence (AI) campus outside of America’s borders.
A West African terrorist group called Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) claims it killed 200 soldiers when it attacked an army base in Burkina Faso on Sunday.
Chinese social media users responded with outrage to a viral video that showed an elderly woman dying at a bank after she was forced to leave the hospital and make a withdrawal to pay for her medical expenses.
Hungarian Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Levente Magyar said on Thursday that President Donald Trump should not pressure Hungary to “decouple” from China because China is too important as an investor and trading partner.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order in April that sought to protect America’s “leadership in deep sea science and technology” by authorizing mineral exploration on the ocean floor.
The Ethiopian Finance Ministry announced on Tuesday that a two-day investment conference in Addis Ababa produced $1.7 billion dollars in investment deals, most of them from Chinese companies.
India on Wednesday slammed China’s “vain and preposterous” attempt to rename 27 terrain features in the Indian province of Arunachal Pradesh.
Chinese state media announced on Wednesday that Colombia has signed a “joint cooperation plan” that will bring it into the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s gigantic worldwide infrastructure plan.
U.S. engineers have discovered mysterious, undocumented communication devices lurking in some Chinese-made solar power inverters and batteries, Reuters reported.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday boasted of over $4 billion in agricultural contracts signed by China and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, the same day President Donald Trump was announcing historic deals in Riyadh.
