U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged the Vatican to bring its considerable moral authority to bear on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which persists in oppressing Christians and people of other faiths.
U.S. Africa Command is seeking new authorities to carry out armed drone strikes targeting al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab fighters in eastern Kenya, four American government officials told the New York Times anonymously in a report published on Tuesday.
Russia is boosting its military presence in its Far East region in response to rising tensions there, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Thursday.
North Korea’s communist regime ordered inspections and “ideological education” across the ruling Korean Workers’ Party, Radio Free Asia reported Friday, after images of the Kim family were found in scrap paper.
LONDON (AP) – A bodyguard who was travelling with Britain’s foreign secretary has been suspended from duties after he reportedly left a loaded gun on a plane.
Hostile foreign actors, violent extremists, and domestic criminals are taking advantage of the “unique and unprecedented” impact the Chinese coronavirus pandemic is having on the FBI workforce to wreak havoc in the U.S. on several fronts, the bureau’s director Christopher Wary warned Thursday.
The governor of Nigeria’s Kaduna State signed a new law on Wednesday prescribing surgical castration for both men and women convicted of child rape.
China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday praised “defiant” ByteDance, parent company of the video microblogging platform TikTok, for refusing to sell full control of the platform to an American company to avoid getting banned by the Trump administration.
The Chinese state propaganda outlet Global Times confirmed on Thursday multiple deaths of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers at the hands of the Indian military in June, months after repeatedly denying that any deaths occurred.
The only known Jewish citizen in Afghanistan says that the country’s future political system “should ensure the protection of all minorities in the country and their humanitarian rights,” Afghanistan’s TOLO News reported on Thursday.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the designated terrorist force controlled by the theocratic side of the Iranian regime, reportedly announced this week that it has formed paramilitary “strike teams” to suppress protests in the national capital of Tehran and the oil-rich province of Khuzestan.
Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez, the second woman to hold the post, announced Thursday her withdrawal from the October 2020 presidential election.
The Taiwanese air force scrambled fighters on Friday as 18 Chinese warplanes swarmed across the midpoint of the Taiwan Strait, part of an aggressive Chinese military exercise meant to intimidate visiting U.S. Under Secretary for Economic Affairs Keith Krach.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declared on Friday that evidence surrounding the alleged poisoning of dissident Alexey Navalny featured too many “absurd inconsistencies” to be taken at face value.
Joe Biden is promising to restore “historic partnerships” with America’s allies, but he is already irritating them.
The president of the United Nations General Assembly has teased that this year’s general debate next week — during which all the world’s heads of state may deliver remarks on any topic of their choosing — will feature more world leaders than ever.
The first country in the world to do so, Israel imposed a second national lockdown hours before the start of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.
France on Friday backed Cyprus’ calls for the European Union to consider imposing tougher sanctions on Turkey.
FBI Director Christopher Wray indicated that Russian and Chinese hackers are trying to steal U.S. coronavirus vaccine research.
The chant began as the president discussed his brokered peace agreements between the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Israel.
Child rights agency UNICEF on Wednesday called for the Nigerian government to “urgently review the case” of a 13-year-old boy sentenced to ten years in prison for blasphemy last month in majority Muslim Kano State, which practices sharia, the Islamic law.
Hospitals in Kenya are running out of medical oxygen used to treat critical coronavirus patients, Kenya’s Daily Nation reported on Wednesday.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mouthpiece Global Times on Wednesday accused Australia’s government of “McCarthyism” amid a recent crackdown by Canberra on Chinese agents in Australia suspected of espionage.
Three Republican lawmakers are targeting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s political warfare operations in the United States in a new bill.
Officials in Indonesia are forcing those who fail to abide by legal requirements to wear a mask to fight Chinese coronavirus to dig the graves of coronavirus victims, news reports revealed on Thursday.
Streaming giant Netflix announced on Wednesday that it has signed a five-year partnership deal with Saudi Arabian animation studio Myrkott, which produces a cartoon series called Masameer that is popular with Middle Eastern audiences.
A report on New Zealand’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) revealed on Thursday that the nation has slipped into its first recession in ten years, thanks to economic damage from the Wuhan coronavirus.
A marine conservation group published an analysis on Wednesday revealing that an armada of Chinese fishing vessels carried out more than 73,000 hours of illegal fishing in the Galápagos between July and August, pulling thousands of tonnes of squid and fish up in the process.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday that charges have been filed against Hooman Heidarian and Mehdi Farhadi, two Iranian nationals in their 30s who allegedly carried out cyberattacks against private and public systems in the U.S., Europe, and Middle East — “sometimes at the behest of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has installed loudspeakers broadcasting anti-Indian government propaganda and, bizarrely, fast-paced Punjabi music on China’s border with India, the Hindustan Times alleged on Thursday.
