The South Korean Ministry of Education revealed this week that over 4,000 schools have shut down nationwide between 1980 and March 2025, responding to the rapid collapse of the child population in the past generation.
The rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will be assumed on January 1 by Somalia – a barely functional state that has exported thousands of “refugees” to the rest of the world, accompanied by crime waves and social distortions.
On the day after Christmas, Israel became the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia.
Multiple news outlets noted at the end of the year that the communist government of North Korea is prominently featuring the Wonsan Kalma Tourist Area on its official calendars, including those meant for Chinese tourists – an indication that it will be heavily promoting travel to the beach resort region in the next year.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Wednesday imposed sanctions on four companies and four tankers aiding Venezuela’s socialist Maduro regime evade U.S. oil sanctions.
A former Maine National Guardsman was hit with faulty accusations of being a “domestic extremist” and pushed out of his job for not taking the COVID-19 vaccine, with the state organization defying a federal correction order to reinstate him.
Two more countries in Africa have announced they are imposing a travel ban on U.S. citizens in response to an identical policy instituted by the Trump administration that will take effect on January 1.
Australia’s New Years Eve celebration was a more solemn affair than usual this year, with a heavy security presence on the streets and a nationwide minute of silence for the victims of the Bondi Beach massacre.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday designated the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) as a “terrorist organization,” a nakedly political move intended as retaliation for Canada designating Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization last year.
Russian drones blasted apartment buildings and the power grid in the southern Ukraine city of Odesa in an overnight attack that injured six people, including a toddler and two other children, officials said Wednesday
The government of Turkey confirmed that it had arrested 357 people on Tuesday in nationwide operations against Islamic State terrorists suspected of plotting attacks on New Year’s Eve – following a multi-hour operation on Monday that killed three police officers.
A group of indigenous shamans in Lima, Peru, organized a ritual on Monday to access visions of the future in anticipation of the 2026 new year. These visions, they told assembled media, showed the demise of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and a potential third world war.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday imposed sanctions on ten individuals and entities for their role in weapons trades between Iran and Venezuela.
The Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas released a statement on Monday confirming that five of its senior leaders were killed during the Gaza war, including “masked spokesman” Abu Obeida and Mohammed al-Sinwar, the brother of former top leader Yahya al-Sinwar.
Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa rolled out the country’s new currency at a ceremony in Damascus on Monday.
Argentinian President Javier Milei told the UK Telegraph on Monday that he would very much like to meet with Reform UK leader and Brexit champion Nigel Farage. The appreciation appears to be mutual, as Farage has praised Milei’s successful efforts to trim the bloated Argentinian socialist state.
Huge protests spread through several Iranian cities on Tuesday after the national currency, the rial, collapsed to a record low.
Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro received a high-caliber rifle from cadets of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) this week.
Pope Leo XIV on Monday delivered a fierce condemnation of gambling, denouncing the activity as a “scourge” that ruins families and must be combated.
The State Department and the United Nations jointly announced on Monday that they have agreed to a new framework for processing American funding for the global body, streamlining funds directly to countries in need and potentially saving billions in needless bureaucracy.
The Islamist government of Syria and independent human rights groups reported on Monday that three people were killed and dozens injured at an Alawite-led protest calling for Damascus to implement a less centrally controlled, federalist system.
The National Citizens’ Party (NCP) of Bangladesh, which grabbed headlines in 2024 as part of the worldwide “Gen Z” youth movement against corrupt dynasties, is facing a revolt from many of its members after announcing a political alliance with the Islamic supremacist Jamaat-e-Islami party.
Communist dictator Kim Jong-un of North Korea reportedly led the testing of long-range cruise missiles, the country’s state media outlets revealed on Monday, intended to preserve Pyongyang’s ability to conduct nuclear bombings.
An independent study conducted by the Cuban Observatory for Citizen Auditing (OCAC) and published on Monday by the Madrid-based Cuba Siglo 21 think tank found that the communist regime is severely downplaying the number of preventable deaths caused by an ongoing epidemiological crisis.
In a radio interview on Friday, President Donald Trump surprisingly revealed that American forces have neutralized at least one smuggling facility in Venezuela, the first land strike in Trump’s campaign against Venezuelan narco-terrorists and dictator Nicolas Maduro.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, an unabashed Marxist and former guerrilla member, spent much of 2025 embroiled in outrageous incidents while making wild claims that proved embarrassing for his entire nation.
Argentine President Javier Milei emphasized his admiration and support for American counterpart Donald Trump in an interview with the British Telegraph on Monday, praising Trump as a peacemaker and clear-minded leader.
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem told Al Arabiya News on Monday that “we trust Trump” to deliver peace in Gaza and stabilize the Middle East.
China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday sought to give Beijing credit for the ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand negotiated by President Donald Trump.
The Chinese embassy in Panama on Sunday expressed its “deep dismay, strong indignation, and firm opposition” to the recent demolition of a Chinese monument in the city of Arraiján this weekend.
The head of the largest organization representing the Tiv people of central Nigeria told local media he sent a letter to President Donald Trump this weekend thanking him for approving airstrikes against jihadists exterminating Christian communities nationwide.
The United States is offering Ukraine security guarantees for a period of 15 years as part of a proposed peace plan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday.
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China on Monday launched “Justice Mission 2025,” a series of live-fire military drills around Taiwan simulating a blockade of the independent island-nation as a purported “warning to separatist forces.”
President Donald Trump holds a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, December 28.
The U.S., Israel and Europe have been warned. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday his country is in a full-scale war with all three ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’s meeting Monday with President Donald Trump.
Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with missiles and drones early Saturday morning, killing one person and wounding 27 others, a day before talks between Ukraine and the U.S., local authorities said.
The Chinese Communist government on Friday imposed sanctions against 20 American defense-related companies over arms sales to Taiwan.
Fifteen people were injured severely enough to require hospitalization in a bizarre attack on a rubber factory in Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture on Friday. A lone suspect was arrested for attempted murder in a rampage that included eight stabbings and seven people injured by a “spray-like liquid.”
The Yemeni separatist group STC accuses Saudi Arabia of launching airstrikes against their forces in the province of Hadramout.
Over 250 Colombians were displaced from their homes on Christmas Day due to violent clashes between the FARC and ELN Marxist terror groups
