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Cuba’s communist Castro regime, for the first time in decades, accepted a mass deportation flight containing at least six Cuban nationals convicted of serious crimes, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) revealed on Wednesday.

United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) commander, Marine Gen. Francis L. Donovan, met with Venezuela’s “acting President” Delcy Rodríguez and other members of the nation’s socialist regime Wednesday in a surprise visit to Caracas.

A massive explosion tore through a fireworks store in the central Chinese province of Hubei on Wednesday afternoon, killing at least 12 people.

Governor Gavin Newsom (CA-D) is asking supporters to purchase his upcoming memoir as he seeks to unseat Peter Schweizer’s The Invisible Coup:How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon from the top position on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list, where Schweizer’s book has remained for three consecutive weeks.

The European Commission (EC) announced an investigation on Tuesday into the Chinese “fast fashion” shopping application Shein over a variety of potential violations, including allegedly “addictive” interfaces to abuse customers and the sale of “childlike” sex dolls on the site.

Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani on Wednesday met with Venezuela’s “acting President” Delcy Rodríguez and other members of the Venezuelan socialist regime in Caracas.

Australia issued a “temporary exclusion order” against one of the 34 Australian citizens linked to ISIS and held in a Syrian prison camp.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Tuesday that the latest round of talks with the United States in Geneva yielded a mutual understanding of “guiding principles” for even more talks.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez met with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on Wednesday.

The Congress of Peru voted on Tuesday to impeach and remove President José Jerí, leaving the presidency vacant just two months before a scheduled presidential election Jerí was not running in.

The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) on Tuesday announced it has opened an investigation into Chinese e-commerce titan Temu for allegedly violating Nigeria’s data protection laws.

A spokesman for imprisoned former Pakistani PM Imran Khan says he has been denied hospital care and treatment, leading to severe loss of vision.

Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claims his military has weapons capable of sending an American aircraft carrier “to the bottom of the sea.”

U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle speaks with Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle in Athens on Tuesday, February 17.

The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance (ARC) on Monday announced a vigil in Miami, Florida, to demand the criminal prosecution of Cuba’s nonagenarian communist dictator Raúl Castro for his role in the murder of four Americans in February 1996.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated terrorist organization, closed the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz for a few hours on Tuesday to conduct live-fire naval drills.

A court in Peru on Monday ruled that President José Jerí must comply with a psychological treatment for “psychosexual pathology” that he failed to submit himself to after he was accused of alleged rape in 2025.

Genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping offered an optimistic message to mark the Lunar New Year, which began on Tuesday, welcoming the Year of the Horse and encouraging Chinese people to embrace the “vigor, strength, and resilience” that are the hallmarks of that animal.

Chinese state media outlets confirmed Monday eight people died in eastern Jiangsu province on Sunday after “improper” detonations near a fireworks store caused a massive explosion and fire.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is making it clear to the world’s migrants that they do not have a right to immigrate to the United States.

Nikhil Gupta, 54, pled guilty on Friday to three charges of conspiracy to hire an assassin to kill Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in New York City in 2023.

Sec. of State Marco Rubio said President Trump is “deeply committed” to the success of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

A Brazilian Carnival float from the União de Maricá samba school ran over several individuals during Sunday’s parade in Rio de Janeiro, leaving at least three injured, one in critical condition.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that President Donald Trump “engaged personally” with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) command Mazloum Abdi to halt clashes between the Syrian army and the Kurdish-led SDF in late January.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won a two-thirds majority of parliamentary seats in Thursday’s election.

El Salvador’s Navy seized 6.6 tons of cocaine from an African-flagged drug-trafficking vessel, President Nayib Bukele announced on Sunday.

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un participated in an inauguration ceremony for a neighborhood built for families of soldiers killed fighting Ukraine.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday that Canadian tourists and businesspeople will be allowed to travel to China without visas, for stays of up to 30 days, beginning this Tuesday and lasting through the end of 2026.

Alejandro Robles Gómez, Secretary for Mexicans Living Abroad for the ruling leftist Morena Party, lamented in an interview on Sunday that he fears that his comments against “Americanized” Mexicans highlighted in Peter Schweizer’s blockbuster exposé ‘The Invisible Coup’ may result in him not being allowed into the United States.

The ruling Afghan Taliban, through top spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, declared in an interview on Sunday it is prepared to offer its “full support” to Iran in the event of an American attack.

The threat of cartel drone incursions along the U.S.-Mexico border, estimated at 40,000 to 60,000 incidents per year, was largely ignored under the Biden Administration. The February 10 airspace shutdown over El Paso underscores the serious challenges the Trump administration now faces as it finally gives the drone threats to the homeland the urgent attention they deserve.

Mexican drug cartels are conducting drone operations along the U.S.–Mexico border at industrial scale, with federal agencies now confirming tens of thousands of unmanned flights used to track Border Patrol agents, coordinate smuggling, and probe American airspace. In a statement to Breitbart Texas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection revealed that agents detected more than 42,000 unmanned drone flights near the border in FY25, calling the threat “rapidly evolving” as cartels expand their aerial surveillance capabilities.

A Ukrainian drone strike ignited fires at one of Russia’s Black Sea ports, officials said Sunday, ahead of fresh talks aimed at ending the nearly 4-year-old war.