Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong called Japanese Ambassador Kanasugi Kenji into his office for a tirade about Taiwan on Thursday, the latest escalation of a diplomatic row that has already seen one Chinese official threaten to cut Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae’s head off.
The Foreign Ministry of China announced on Thursday that Premier Li Qiang will represent China at the upcoming G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, confirming that communist dictator Xi Jinping is skipping the event.
Iranian forces seized an oil tanker named Talara as it transited through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday.
Chile will hold a general election on Sunday to choose the country’s new president and members of parliament, featuring eight candidates vying to succeed outgoing leftist President Gabriel Boric next year.
The Maronite Christian bishops of Lebanon issued a joint statement last week denouncing Israel’s “daily attacks on the South and other regions of Lebanon, which are bringing the country to the brink of war once again.”
Nigerian Minister of Information Mohammed Idris reportedly declared on Thursday that the country’s advertising and marketing executives have a “crucial responsibility” to make Nigeria look good, particularly given recent global attention on the ongoing genocide of Christians in the Middle Belt region.
17 transgender members of the Air Force who were discharged under the Trump administration’s transgender military ban filed a lawsuit this week against the federal government for allegedly revoking their pensions and other benefits after their forced early retirement.
President Donald Trump announced a series of breakthrough reciprocal trade deals on Thursday with the U.S.-friendly Latin American countries of El Salvador, Argentina, Ecuador, and Guatemala.
China’s big “Singles Day” shopping holiday improved a bit in 2025 over the previous year, but retailers said the pace of growth slowed as customers looked for bargains, instead of spending big on luxury items.
The top United Nations official on climate policy sent a letter to the government of Brazil, Bloomberg revealed on Thursday, complaining of poor security and quality of life conditions at the site of COP30, the annual U.N. climate alarmism conference.
Germany’s coalition government has agreed a new bill to enhance military service built around “needs based” conscription and clear troop targets, a report Thursday details.
The escalating tensions between India and Pakistan after terrorist attacks in both countries this week are part of a regional realignment – a square dance of power in which India is courting Pakistan’s former friends in Afghanistan, while Bangladesh sidles up to Islamabad.
The justice and energy ministers of Ukraine resigned on Wednesday, the latest officials to be toppled by a fast-growing corruption scandal involving the energy industry.
The “People’s Summit,” an international gathering of leftist organizations, commenced on Wednesday in the Brazilian city of Belém as a counter-event to the ongoing COP30 climate alarmism conference.
The huge Hongqi Bridge in China’s Sichuan province, touted as a major achievement in China’s infrastructure boom, collapsed into the river it once spanned on Tuesday.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida indicted Luis Raúl González-Pardo Rodríguez, a Cuban pilot linked to the Castro regime’s killing of four Americans in 1996, on immigration fraud charges, U.S. Attorneys Gregory W. Kehoe and Jason A. Reding Quiñones announced on Wednesday.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) documented a drop in Russian oil export revenue of over $13 billion between October and November in a report published on Thursday, a potential signal that President Donald Trump’s sanctions on Russia’s oil industry imposed in late October have begun to affect the market.
A Biden-appointed federal judge in Chicago has ordered the release of hundreds of criminal migrants arrested by federal immigration agents.
India and Pakistan both experienced deadly terrorist bombings on Monday, and each is moving toward blaming the other for allowing or encouraging the attacks.
Multiple Syrian news outlets reported on Wednesday that the Franciscan Order has once again taken control of the Al-Ram School, formerly the Jesuit School, of Aleppo, over 50 years after the Assad dynasty’s Socialist Baath Party confiscated it.
Multiple Nigerian newspapers reported on an incident on Wednesday in which the Nigerian military attacked peaceful protesters organizing to demand that the government act to protect civilians from genocidal jihadist attacks, which have persisted for over a decade with little government interest.
In the decade since the Bataclan attacks in Paris, France has averaged nearly one deadly terrorist attack every six months, demonstrating the scale to which radical Islamism has transformed the fabric of the nation.
Prosecutors in Turkey published an indictment on Tuesday against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, widely considered the most popular candidate in the 2028 presidential election, charging him with nearly 150 crimes and requesting a 2,000-year prison sentence.
After meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, Syria’s interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa said Trump supports his call for Israel to remove its forces from Syrian territory.
America’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, arrived in the Caribbean on Tuesday, joining eight other warships and a nuclear submarine in the region.
The government of South Africa on Thursday announced an investigation into how 17 of its citizens became mercenaries on the battlefields of Ukraine. The men are sending “distress signals” pleading for rescue, and their families claim they were tricked into fighting.
The recently inaugurated administration of Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz restored the country’s diplomatic ties with Israel, the Israeli government announced on Tuesday.
Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s far-left, pro-cocaine president, announced on Tuesday the suspension of all intelligence sharing with the United States until the U.S. stops attacking drug traffickers in Caribbean international waters.
New York City (NYC) Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani explained that the relationship he has with President Donald “will be critical to the success” of the city, and added that he plans to call Trump before taking office.
Ukrainian lawmaker Maryan Zablotsky, the head of the Free Cuba Caucus of the Verkhovna Rada, announced on Tuesday that his government was willing to free the four living Cuban mercenaries in its custody, and return the bodies of 41 others, in exchange for the communist regime liberating its own political prisoners.
The European Commission has reportedly begun forming a new intelligence service, which is set to be under the control of President Ursula von der Leyen.
Russians are reportedly growing exasperated with Muslim migrants praying in public places, while the Muslims say they need more mosques.
The futuristic city of NEOM may never be completed, as cost overruns and engineering difficulties are piling up.
A Biden-appointed federal judge in Chicago says he is considering forcing immigration officers to release thousands of the illegal migrants that Immigration and Customs Enforcement have arrested during its “Operation Midway Blitz.”
President Donald Trump said Tuesday, Veterans Day, that “America stands tall” because her “veterans stood so strong” after a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
President Donald Trump was unequivocal on Monday in his faith that Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, an al-Qaeda affiliated terror chief formerly known as “Abu Mohammed al-Jolani,” is the leader to transition the country out of civil war.
At least nine people were killed when a car exploded near the historic Red Fort in New Dehi, India on Monday evening. The incident is being investigated under India’s counter-terrorism law, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi seemed convinced that the deadly explosion was a deliberate act.
President Donald Trump laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at a windy Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday, Veterans’ Day.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on Monday said that America is willing to help the new government of Bolivia dismantle Iran’s terrorist influence in the country.
Syrian Information Minister Hamza al-Mustafa announced on Monday that his country signed a “political cooperation declaration” with the U.S.-led Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, becoming a “partner in combating terrorism and supporting regional stability.”
