Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged his country’s citizens to take a pledge of “India First” at the foundation-laying ceremony of a new parliament building in New Delhi on Thursday.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte offered to resign on Monday if anyone can prove that he or members of his administration received bribes while in office, adding that he would “kill” whoever makes such allegations without evidence.
A video allegedly showing an Azerbaijani soldier beheading an elderly Armenian man surfaced online in recent days, the Armenian news site panarmenian.net reported on Tuesday.
French soccer star Antoine Griezmann, who played for the winning team in the 2018 World Cup and is currently a forward for Barcelona, terminated his relationship with Chinese telecom giant Huawei on Thursday.
China’s Ministry of Commerce announced Thursday that it will impose temporary anti-subsidy duties on Australian wine imports starting December 11.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused “evil” America on Wednesday of hurting Iran’s efforts to access foreign Chinese coronavirus vaccine candidates, calling into question the status of an alleged vaccine candidate in development by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
An international civil rights alliance called CIVICUS Monitor published a report this week that accused countries around the world, including the United States, of using the coronavirus pandemic as an “opportunity to introduce or implement additional restrictions on civic freedoms.”
Soon after announcing the Moroccan government’s historic recognition of Israel on Thursday as part of his Abraham Accords initiative, U.S. President Donald Trump mused on Twitter that the United States should acknowledge Morocco’s claim of sovereignty over Western Sahara.
Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-CA) father and brother are no longer Facebook friends with suspected Chinese spy Christine Fang.
China imposed sanctions Thursday against U.S. officials who allegedly “performed badly” over Hong Kong issues in response to the restrictions on Chinese officials over Beijing’s illegal crackdown on the supposedly autonomous region.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will end the import tax on firearms from January onwards, as well as a variety of other products, he announced Wednesday.
House Intelligence Committee Republicans were shocked to learn that a committee member, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), had ties with a suspected Chinese spy who slept with U.S. politicians to gain information.
The families of at least three human rights lawyers in China denounced police harassment and the imposition of an impromptu ban on leaving the house in anticipation of International Human Rights Day, celebrated annually on December 10.
Azerbaijan held a victory parade in the capital of Baku on Thursday — with close military ally Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in attendance — celebrating the nation’s capture of territory in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Turkish state news agency Anadolu reported Thursday.
Morocco became the fourth Arab state to reach a peace deal with Israel this year, as news broke Thursday that the Kingdom would sign an agreement establishing diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.
The European Medicines Agency’s documents on the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine have been hacked by cyber-attackers.
Ethiopian security forces shot at and detained U.N. staff members this week as they tried to access restricted zones in the northern Tigray region, a senior Ethiopian government official said on Tuesday.
Radical Islamists have killed at least 30 Christians, raped 10 young women and girls, and kidnapped fifteen others in a spate of recent attacks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Christian Post reported Wednesday.
A recent increase in the number of Chinese and South Korean companies purchasing plots of land near Japanese military bases has led Tokyo to consider limiting such sales, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday.
Iranian state television issued a correction on Tuesday after falsely labeling Pink Floyd guitarist Roger Waters a “political expert” when airing his comments criticizing former Vice President Joe Biden.
Experts concluded this week that lead and nickel content in drinking water was the primary cause of a “mysterious illness” affecting nearly 600 people in India’s southeastern Andhra Pradesh state in recent days.
A-list stars including Tom Hanks, Angelina Jolie, Chris Pratt, Keanu Reeves, and Mark Wahlberg are featured in a video honoring military families for the Gary Sinise Foundation’s 2020 Virtual Snowball Express.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has blocked the action movie Monster Hunter from appearing on several Chinese film review websites and ticketing apps following a backlash against a scene in the film that the Communist Party claimed was offensive.
China’s state-run Global Times trashed former Vice President Joe Biden’s coronavirus plans Wednesday, sneering that “masking, vaccinations, and opening schools” would not be enough to “effectively improve the U.S.’ novel coronavirus dilemma.”
Forces loyal to Gen. Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan National Army (LNA) seized a Jamaica-flagged Turkish cargo ship in the Mediterranean on Monday, angering the Turkish government and potentially reigniting the Libyan civil war after a tentative truce was established in October.
Documents revealed Wednesday by Canada’s Rebel News Network suggest that Canada planned to train China’s military in cold weather tactics at a military base in Ontario — and canceled the program, reluctantly, at the Trump administration’s request.
American cybersecurity firm FireEye reported Tuesday that it was attacked by a “highly sophisticated threat actor, one whose discipline, operational security, and techniques lead us to believe it was a state-sponsored attack.”
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest dropped by 45 percent in November, marking the third consecutive month it has decreased, according to the latest data from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE).
Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro once again personally accused Colombian President Iván Duque on Tuesday of plotting his assassination, this time allegedly during the fraudulent legislative elections Maduro organized Sunday.
A woman identified in reports only as “Zhao” became the target of a mass persecution campaign online this week after the Chinese Communist Party announced that Chengdu, a city of 16 million people, would be going into “wartime mode” due to a Chinese coronavirus outbreak.
