Latin American artists from throughout the hemisphere convened in Cúcuta, Colombia, on Friday for the Richard Branson-sponsored “Venezuela Aid Live” concert to demand dictator Nicolás Maduro allow international aid into the country.
At least 72 million people in Nigeria, the most populous democracy in Africa, are expected to go to the polls during the delayed general elections on Saturday to choose a new president and members of the country’s National Assembly lawmaking body.
China will establish a contact group through the Beijing-led Eurasian coalition known as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to help “speed up” U.S.-backed efforts to end the more than 17-year-old war in Afghanistan with a political reconciliation between Kabul and the Taliban, the Chinese foreign minister said this week.
President Donald Trump announced late Friday he will nominate U.S. Ambassador to Canada Kelly Craft as the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
The Iranian military managed to hijack several U.S. drones flying in Iraq and Syria after infiltrating data at a U.S. Army Command center, a top commander within Iran’s terror proxy known as the Islamic Republic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), claimed this week.
China’s creepy “social credit system,” a vast surveillance network that rates both companies and individual citizens for “good behavior” and has a variety of tools for punishing those who behave badly, is also proving useful for accumulating socioeconomic data. A report released this week by China’s National Public Credit Information Center used data from the social credit system to determine that a large percentage of “untrustworthy businesses” are operating in China’s wealthiest regions.
Russian officials claimed on Thursday that the United States is planning to arm the opposition in Venezuela by purchasing a variety of weapons and military equipment from Eastern European countries.
President Donald Trump expects to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping “probably” in March at Mar-a-Lago, he told reporters at the top of a meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He Friday.
Troops loyal to socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro on Friday reportedly killed one and injured 12 members of a civilian group in Venezuela attempting to keep a checkpoint along country’s border with Brazil open for deliveries of U.S. humanitarian aid.
The Russian Foreign Ministry announced Friday that its chief, Sergey Lavrov, will travel to China next week for discussions with diplomats there. Topics will include how to issue a united response to the chaotic political situation in Venezuela.
A major drug bust in the Philippines on Thursday highlighted the dependence of the Islamic State-linked Maute terrorist group upon income from the drug trade. A Maute suspect named Amrodin Alan Bantog was arrested with over $100,000 worth of shabu, which is the Philippine term for methamphetamines.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday, capping a tour of Asia that was widely seen as the Saudis “pivoting to the East” after losing Western friends over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. MBS also visited India and Pakistan on his way to China.
Venezuela’s socialist Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) were filmed on Thursday stopping a caravan carrying interim President Juan Guaidó as he and other politicians traveled to Colombia to help transport aid into the country.
Apple has reportedly teamed up with Chinese Payments firm Ant Financial Services Group and multiple local banks to offer interest-free financing on iPhone devices.
Gordon Chang warned that America is “unsafe” with Steve Mnuchin in a leadership position in trade negotiations with China.
The Massachusetts-based Thermo Fisher company on Wednesday announced it will no longer sell its equipment in the Xinjiang province of China because the Chinese government is using the gear to track Uighur Muslims through their DNA.
Dictator Nicolás Maduro claimed Thursday that musicians performing at “Venezuela Aid Live,” a concert on the Colombian border with the country to raise funds for humanitarian aid, were “international criminals.”
President Trump will leave a “small peacekeeping group” of 200 troops in Syria, after the April 30 deadline to withdraw all forces, according to a report.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, amid ongoing peace negotiations with the Afghan Taliban, quietly ended an airstrike campaign against Taliban opium and heroin drug labs after failing to curtail the terrorist organization’s multi-million dollar trade, the Pentagon’s inspector general (IG) revealed this week.
Israel’s interests are are best advanced by working with like-minded countries. And in issues that matter, along a wide spectrum of areas, Poland is a like-minded country, despite painful historical differences.
Security forces were gearing up Friday morning for anticipated violence ahead of Friday prayers at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount as police announced 60 people were arrested overnight on suspicion of planning violence.
Jerusalem — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Russia on Wednesday for talks with President Vladimir Putin that had been scheduled for this week, the Israeli government said.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An Israeli spacecraft rocketed toward the moon for the country’s first attempted lunar landing, following a launch Thursday night by SpaceX.
Belgian Defense Minister Didier Reynders on Thursday denied a Washington Post report that U.S. allies have “rejected” a “Trump administration request” for them to leave troops in Syria as America withdraws its forces.
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan called Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) an “ally” after the senator told Breitbart News and the Washington Post that Shanahan was now an “adversary.”
Nicaragua’s Sandinista regime sentenced several anti-government protesters to hundreds of years in prison for defying the regime this week.
President Donald Trump suggested in remarks to the press on Wednesday that North Korea could one day convince the United States to drop sanctions on the communist regime there, but only when Kim Jong-un offers “something that’s meaningful” as a concession.
The Chinese military this week concluded a month of unannounced exercises in the South China Sea and the Pacific aimed at testing its “wartime command system” and enhancing its missile defenses, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) revealed on Thursday.
Syrian first responders discovered the largest Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) mass grave so far, holding at least 3,500 bodies and located outside Syria’s city of Raqqa, once the de facto capital of the terrorist group’s nearly completely fallen self-declared caliphate, a local forensic assistant revealed on Thursday.
A diplomatic crisis between Italy and North Korea is brewing over the alleged abduction of the 17-year-old daughter of Jo Song Gil, who until November was North Korea’s ambassador to Rome.
