At least 30 people were killed in Nigeria on Friday after the convoy of Borno Governor Babagana Umara Zulum came under attack from Islamist insurgents Friday, security sources confirmed this weekend.
In the Belarusian capital of Minsk on Sunday, roughly 100,000 people turned out for the 50th consecutive day of anti-governmental protests in the country.
China launched military drills in four separate seas on Monday — Two are being held in the South China Sea near the disputed Paracel Islands, one in the East China Sea, and one in the northern Bohai Sea, while live-fire drills are scheduled in the southern Yellow Sea.
Armenia and Azerbaijan reported casualties on Sunday following clashes between their militaries in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh — The two countries accused each other of initiating the conflict.
North Korea accused South Korea of intruding into its territorial water after South Korea sent ships across the disputed sea boundary to find the body of an official recently killed by North Korean troops.
China’s state-run Global Times cited a few polls and Western op-ed pieces on Sunday to argue the world has rejected “American values” like freedom and democracy. In the Chinese Communist paper’s view, the U.S. response to China’s coronavirus pandemic, unrest in the streets, and “division and confrontation between political parties” prove the U.S. system doesn’t work and America’s “global leadership is declining.”
Lebanon suffered another political setback on Saturday when Prime Minister-designate Mustapha Adib, named to the position only a month ago, resigned over his inability to form a government.
Cumhuriyet, one of Turkey’s oldest and most prestigious newspapers, reported on Monday that growing pressure on businessmen in Saudi Arabia to not engage Turkey has evolved into a formal trade embargo.
Stephen Lamar, head of the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA), told a session of the U.S. House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade on Thursday that import bans on products from China’s Xinjiang province could “wreak havoc” on supply chains.
Fulani Muslim militants in Delta State, Nigeria, abducted a Catholic priest this weekend whom they had previously kidnapped and released in 2016, local news reported Monday.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping applauded Communist Party officials in remarks this weekend for making western Xinjiang province, home to over 1,000 concentration camps for ethnic minorities, “united, harmonious, prosperous, and culturally advanced.”
A top Indian diplomat told the United Nations Human Rights Council that “killing field for minorities” Pakistan is “hookwink[ing]” the world by delisting thousands of known terrorists from its watch lists, Indian media reported Monday.
Two of Japan’s most popular “VTubers” — people who use computer-generated cartoon avatars to represent themselves in YouTube videos — have been suspended for three weeks because they referred to Taiwan and displayed its flag during a livestream.
Joe Biden claims President Donald Trump has hurt America’s standing in the world, but a former Italian foreign minister told The Kyle Olson Show this week that Trump’s achievements are “impressive.”
Star of the progressive left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has come under fire for withdrawing from an event commemorating late-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, including by Rabin’s own granddaughter who accused the Democratic congress woman of surrendering to populism.
ROME — The expected renewal of an agreement between China and the Vatican on the appointment of bishops “will contribute to the development of Chinese Catholic churches,” the state-run Global Times reported Thursday.
The Vatican’s secretary of state and foreign minister will join U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for a high-level symposium on international religious freedom on September 30.
“We value rules that protect sovereignty, peace, and security, and curb the excessive use of power,” he said, addressing China’s illegal attempts to control as much as 90 percent of the South China Sea.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the 2020 U.N. General Assembly on Friday that the world is in crisis, “not just because of the last few months” and the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, but “because of the last few decades, and because of us.”
Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide said during a virtual speech at the United Nation’s 75th annual General Assembly on Friday he is “ready to meet” with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in a bid to “normalize” relations with Pyongyang.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has allegedly torn down around 16,000 mosques in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, an Australian think tank said in a report published on Thursday.
CARACAS – The start of Venezuela’s 2020-2021 school year is marred with problems both old and new, and under an ongoing fierce Chinese Coronavirus lockdown that prevents you from leaving the country.
Former Vice President Joe Biden jokingly referred to members of the U.S. military and its overseas coalition partners as “stupid bastards” while making banter with troops during a 2016 trip to the United Arab Emirates.
Authorities in Hong Kong arrested the pro-democracy campaigner Joshua Wong on charges of “unauthorized assembly” during last year’s anti-China protest movement, those close to him announced on Thursday.
China’s “corn heartland” in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang faces a shortage of farm workers for the upcoming autumn harvest, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday.
Argentine lawmaker Juan Emilio Ameri, a member of the governing Peronist Party, was attending a Zoom meeting of legislators on Thursday when the other participants noticed he was fondling a buxom blonde woman on camera.
Last week, Chinese Communist state media were hailing a prospective deal between Chinese company ByteDance, Oracle, and Walmart for control of the TikTok social media platform as a huge win for ByteDance and China, and a crushing defeat for President Donald Trump — The terms of the deal, however, changed a little over the ensuing week, prompting Chinese media to denounce it as “highway robbery” on Friday.
Authorities in Russia seized the apartment and froze the bank accounts of dissident Alexei Navalny’s apartment days after his release from a German hospital after doctors believe he was poisoned with a Russian chemical agent, his spokeswoman revealed on Thursday.
Islamist Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan urged the United Nations to support the “universal outlaw[ing]” of criticism, mockery, or other expression deemed offensive to Muslims in his address to the General Assembly Friday.
Paul Sperry of RealClearInvestigations reported Thursday that former CIA Director John Brennan edited out intelligence assessments that suggested Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, wanted Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 election.
