South African immigration police on Tuesday raided a U.S. refugee processing center in Johannesburg and arrested seven Kenyans who were allegedly working there illegally, along with two U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) officers.
A report released on Wednesday by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and the House Committee on Education and the Workforce warned that China is exploiting joint nuclear research partnerships financed by the Department of Energy (DOE) and some of the sensitive technology China stole has found its way into the hands of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
Missouri is being sued by the municipal government of Wuhan, China, in retaliation for Missouri’s 2020 pandemic lawsuit against China.
The Southern Transitional Council (STC) of Yemen, a group of separatists who have largely been aligned with the internationally-recognized government of Yemen ever since it was deposed by Houthi insurgents in 2014, has marched its fighters into another province — taking more territory away from its erstwhile allies and stoking fears of a renewed civil war.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said on Monday that she would like to see an oil pipeline built through British Columbia to the West Coast, but if the pipeline is not built, she would consider shipping Alberta’s oil across the border through Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington to reach Pacific ports.
Israel reportedly warned Australia about threats to Jewish communities from “Iran-directed terror activity” months before the Bondi Beach attack.
President Donald Trump said on Monday that he asked Chinese dictator Xi Jinping to free Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy Hong Kong media mogul who is awaiting sentencing after he was found guilty of “colluding with foreign forces” on Monday.
Syria’s ousted dictator Bashar Assad fled to Moscow when he was driven from power and has reportedly settled into a new life as a celebrity ophthalmologist since his usefulness to the Russian government has come to an end.
President Donald Trump says the U.S. “will retaliate” for the murder of three Americans in Syria, which he described as an “ISIS attack.”
The Democratic Party (DP) of Hong Kong voted to disband on Sunday, citing intense pressure from Chinese officials who wanted to eliminate the last vestiges of political resistance to the Chinese Communist Party on the island.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blames Australian PM Anthony Albanese for encouraging antisemitism.
The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday announced the elimination of Ra’ad Sa’ad, a Hamas official who planned the October 7 attack.
President Donald Trump announced on Friday that Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to “cease all shooting,” following a tense week of escalating clashes that threatened to destroy the ceasefire agreement he negotiated between the two countries in July.
In an interview with Al Jazeera News on Wednesday, Hamas Abroad leader Khaled Mashaal claimed that “fifty-one percent of American youth are supportive not only of the Palestinian cause, but of Hamas.”
Syria has approved the first Jewish organization to be officially recognized since Syria became an independent nation in the 1940s.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday in Turkmenistan to discuss the war in Ukraine. Their meeting was unexpectedly interrupted by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who demanded an audience with Putin to secure his support against India and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
Australia’s ban on social media for children under 16 went into effect on Wednesday amid heavy resistance from the nation’s teenagers, ominous threats from regulators, and apprehension around the world.
The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has detained four young Afghan men who posted social media videos of themselves dressed as characters from the British crime drama “Peaky Blinders,” a show set in the early years of the 20th Century.
Portugal’s chief narcotics police officer, Artur Vaz, said on Monday that Latin American drug cartels are shipping huge amounts of cocaine to Europe, frequently using cheap “narco-subs” that have proven difficult for European coastal patrols to detect.
Japanese Defense Minister Koizumi Shinjiro said on Wednesday that a combined demonstration of Russian and Chinese airpower near Japan’s southern islands was “clearly intended as a show of force against our nation, which is a serious concern for our national security.”
President Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon announced that the United States has seized an oil tanker bound for Cuba as it was sailing off the coast of Venezuela.
The Southern Transitional Council (STC), a secessionist group in Yemen, has seized control of the oil-rich provinces of Hadramout and Mahra, threatening to re-ignite the stalemated Yemeni civil war and potentially destabilize the region.
Amnesty International on Tuesday accused the Nigerian Army of opening fire on protesters and killing nine women.
The European Union (EU) has belatedly joined the rush for rare earth minerals in Latin America, months after the United States began working on a deal with Brazil.
Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency reports 961 confirmed deaths, 234 missing persons, and 5,000 injuries from flooding.
India’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday supported the “sovereignty” of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan against cross-border attacks from Pakistani forces.
Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia escalated on Tuesday, spreading to more locations along the disputed border.
Speaking at an international forum in Beijing on Tuesday, Chinese Premier Li Qiang blamed tariffs – implicitly President Donald Trump’s tariffs – for dealing a “severe blow” to the world economy.
Police in the southeastern Nigerian state of Imo are investigating a possible organ-harvesting ring after finding a hideous trove of mutilated corpses at a hotel.
Chinese scientists used gene-editing tools to create a modified species of fungus that can purportedly replace the protein found in chicken.
The Interior Ministry of Benin announced on Sunday that an attempted military coup against President Patrice Talon had been thwarted.
Thailand launched airstrikes against Cambodian positions along the border on Monday, ostensibly because Cambodian troops opened fire and killed at least one Thai soldier. The Cambodian military denied those claims and insisted the Thai attack was unprovoked.
The Catholic Diocese of Zaria in Nigeria’s Kaduna state said on Wednesday that a priest named Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Ezema was kidnapped from his church Tuesday night.
The State Department said on Thursday that America is “comprehensively reviewing our relationship with the Government of Tanzania” due to concerns over the “ongoing repression of religious freedom and free speech.”
Taiwan announced it will block access to Communist China’s app RedNote due to a high volume of complaints about online shopping scams.
Russian President Vladimir Putin promised an “uninterrupted” supply of cheap oil to India after meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, defying President Donald Trump’s effort to use tariff pressure to get India to stop funding Putin’s war machine in Ukraine.
The unexpected deterioration in relations between Pakistan and the Taliban junta in Afghanistan has thrown a wrench into the works for China, which had ambitions to spread its influence through Central Asia – and plunder Afghanistan’s natural resources – by folding Afghanistan into the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
A Russian court on Wednesday added two more years to the sentence of Robert Gilman, an American citizen and Marine Corps veteran accused of attacking Russian police and prison guards.
The office of President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Thursday that South Africa will take a “commercial break” from the Group of 20 (G20) forum over the coming year because the rotating precedency has passed to the United States under President Donald Trump.
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in New Delhi on Thursday for meetings with top officials, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
