Turkey will mark the fourth anniversary of a 2016 failed military coup on July 15 with 3,000 mass events in which people will gather in large numbers despite the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Turkey’s Hürriyet Daily News reported on Friday.
The New-York based NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the Russian government on Friday to release the dozens of journalists and peaceful protesters arrested over the past week and demanded they drop all charges against them.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday abruptly switched from welcoming the impending visit of World Health Organization (W.H.O.) investigators to demanding they send a team to the United States to investigate the “origin” of the Wuhan coronavirus there.
The Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported on Friday that streaming giant Netflix has decided not to “proactively” censor a documentary about Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong, despite concerns it might be ruled “subversive” under the totalitarian security law Beijing has imposed on the island.
Prominent Hong Kong freedom activist Joshua Wong on Friday branded “a really big slap in the face” an email from ESPN NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), that read simply, “Fuck you.”
Diosdado Cabello – a senior member of Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime, state television personality, and believed to be one of Venezuela’s most powerful drug lords – tweeted Thursday that he has tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus.
South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo on Friday quoted sources in North Korea who said the secretive Communist dictatorship is dealing with hundreds of thousands of coronavirus infections and over 500 fatalities, despite the regime’s official claims that it has never experienced a single infection.
An “unknown pneumonia” with a “much higher” fatality rate than the Chinese coronavirus is sweeping through Kazakhstan, the Chinese Embassy in Kazakhstan warned its citizens on Thursday, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mouthpiece Global Times reported on Friday.
The Vatican delegation to the United Nations registered its dissent this week for a decision to smuggle the category of “gender identity” into a U.N. statement on refugees.
Iran reportedly executed a man this week for the crime of drinking alcohol for the sixth time, ignoring repeated warnings from authorities.
Kim Yo-jong, sister to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, published a poorly written “press statement” Friday praising Kim’s relationship with President Donald Trump, rejecting further summits between them, and requesting DVD copies of Fourth of July celebration footage.
Another mysterious explosion – a series of them, according to some sources – rocked Tehran on Thursday night, knocking out the power along the western edge of the city.
International poverty charity Oxfam warned in a report this week that the number of deaths caused by famine as a result of worldwide lockdown measures could exceed those caused by the Chinese coronavirus, which triggered the lockdowns.
The mayor of Seoul, the capital of South Korea, left a suicide note apologizing “to everyone” before disappearing Thursday, police revealed.
The Chinese army has deployed “all-terrain walking excavators” to continue construction work and road-building near China’s disputed Himalayan border with India, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Thursday.
Iran’s health minister lashed out at his country’s top officials on Wednesday, accusing them of “losing control” of Iran’s devastating coronavirus outbreak, believed to be one of the deadliest in the world, Radio Farda reported.
Indonesia recorded its largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases on Thursday, with nearly half of the 2,657 new infections reported at a military training center on the island of Java, Reuters reported.
An anti-Israel student protest in the Canadian regional center of Mississauga which featured antisemitic chants is the subject of a hate-crimes complaint filed by a local Jewish organization.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday admitted his government was too hasty in reopening the economy and as a result, Israel is now facing a “second wave of corona.”
Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced Thursday he has ordered an investigation into intelligence leaks to the media.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro hailed the supposed entry of rap superstar Kanye West into this year’s presidential election as a challenger against President Donald Trump, wrongly pronouncing his name as “Dainee Wets.”
China’s state-run Global Times reported approvingly on Thursday that Hong Kong has been forced to suppress countless movies, television shows, books, and online posts that could violate the new security law imposed by Beijing because the material could be judged to “threaten” Communist China, and those who display or sell the “threatening” material could be held legally liable.
Serbian police are suppressing anti-lockdown protests with “anti-terror squads” that Chinese special police trained late last year, Deutsche Welle (DW) reported on Wednesday. The revelation comes four days after China made its first European arms deal with Serbia on Saturday.
The first female soldier received a Green Beret on Thursday, after graduating the Special Forces Qualifications Course.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the Indian economy is already recovering from the coronavirus and that he expects it to play a “leading role” in the global post-pandemic recovery.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who this week tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus, has publicly asserted his faith in the medicine hydroxychloroquine by sharing a video of himself swallowing such pills.
A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry demanded Thursday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo clarify the “truth” about the relationship between the Chinese coronavirus and e-cigarette disease, two medical phenomena that no evidence suggests are related.
The Socialist International, a global coalition of radical leftist political parties, issued a statement on Wednesday denouncing Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro for staging a hostile takeover of the nation’s opposition parties, which are also socialist.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on China to honor its “international human rights obligations” in a statement marking the fifth anniversary of Beijing’s ignominious July 9 “nationwide offensive.”
The Daily Beast published a report Monday documenting “at least 19 fake personas” that managed to “place more than 90 opinion pieces in 46 different publications” over the past year praising the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) while criticizing its adversaries Qatar, Turkey, and Iran.
