Three separate attacks this week have left untold dead – at least 162 and counting – in Kwara state, western Nigeria, many of the victims reportedly Muslims slaughtered by an Islamic State offshoot for failing to accept its jihadist ideology.
Iran claims the drone shot down by the USS Abraham Lincoln was conducting a “routine and lawful mission over international waters.”
Colombian Military forces on Wednesday carried out a bombing attack in the Catatumbo region against the warring National Liberation Army (ELN) and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Marxist terrorist groups.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday said Beijing will resist growing international pressure to join discussions with the United States and Russia for a trilateral nuclear arms pact to replace the expiring New START treaty.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, held a “virtual meeting” on Wednesday in which they celebrated their countries’ close bonds and vowed to expand “high-level exchanges,” trade, and diplomacy.
The success of the United States’s three-phase plan toward stabilizing Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro depends on neutralizing Iran’s military presence in the country as well as Russia and China’s encroachment, the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS) warned this week.
Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae took a gamble by holding early parliamentary elections as a referendum on her agenda, but the gamble looks like it will pay off as her enormous personal popularity is set to sweep more members of her governing coalition into the Diet.
The business outlet Bloomberg reported on Thursday that its anonymous sources affirmed that the Chinese Communist Party had ordered an end to “projects” in Panama following that nation’s top court ruling that a deal granting outsized power to a Hong Kong corporation over the Panama Canal was unconstitutional.
The White House blasted the “blatant hypocrisy” of the left-wing group Human Rights Watch (HRW) — which has criticized President Donald Trump’s peace deals — on Wednesday after its executive director accused the United States of being “hostile to human rights.”
U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk despaired Thursday his agency is “in survival mode” due to funding shortfalls driven by a lack of U.S. taxpayer dollars.
Colombian businessman Alex Saab, widely considered to be Nicolás Maduro’s top money launderer, was arrested in Caracas on Wednesday as part of a join U.S. – Venezuela operation, several outlets reported.
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said on Tuesday that a small number of American military officers have been deployed to Nigeria to assist with counter-terrorism efforts.
The Iranian regime seems to be doing everything possible to derail Friday’s scheduled talks between Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, including last-minute demands for a change of venue from Turkey to Oman.
President Donald Trump has overseen the lowest level of illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border in more than 50 years, the Pew Research Center reveals.
A billboard truck was seen this week outside the Mexican Embassy in Washington, DC, highlighting revelations in Peter Schweizer’s #1 New York Times bestselling book, “The Invisible Coup.”
Uruguay’s Leftist President Yamandú Orsi met with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping in Beijing, pushing his country closer to communist China.
Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro on Tuesday disclosed details of his meeting with President Trump at the White House, stating, “We didn’t hit or scratch each other; we look for solutions.”
The Chinese Communist Party finds “intolerable” the idea that the highest authority in a church should be God, a jailed pastor’s daughter said.
Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, the 53-year-old son and onetime heir apparent to former Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi, was murdered by a squad of masked gunmen in his hometown of Zintan, according to statements from his office, his political allies, and local media on Tuesday.
Chinese state media reported on Wednesday morning dictator Xi Jinping held a phone call with President Donald Trump, their first direct conversation since November.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a new license Tuesday authorizing the export and sale of U.S. diluents to Venezuela. Diluents are a key fuel needed to produce exportable crude oil grades in the OPEC country.
“Acting President” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez on Tuesday night said the country is calm a month after U.S. forces captured socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.
The Chinese state propaganda newspaper Global Times celebrated on Tuesday that two clothing brands had disappeared products featuring the Nintendo game franchise Pokémon from their Chinese stores following the advertisement of a Pokémon event at the Yasukuni Shrine.
America’s top diplomat in Cuba, Chargé d’Affaires Mike Hammer, was the target of multiple “acts of repudiation” this weekend – ritualistic communist mob attacks that target individuals anathema to the regime.
Police in Iran’s desert province of Yazd said on Tuesday that 139 foreign nationals have been arrested to date for participating in protests against the Iranian regime that began in December.
Venezuela on Tuesday marked the first month since the United States’s unprecedented January 3 law enforcement operation in Caracas that resulted in the arrest of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that India has not indicated it will stop buying Russian oil, as claimed by President Donald Trump on Monday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that his government has followed the United States and European Union (EU) in designating Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on Tuesday launched one of its F-35C fighters to shoot down an unmanned Iranian aircraft that “aggressively approached” with “unclear intent.”
Chile’s outgoing far-left President Gabriel Boric on Monday formally presented the candidacy of socialist former President Michelle Bachelet to become the next U.N. Secretary-General — and announced that her bid is also backed by leftists governments of Brazil and Mexico.
Chinese automaker BYD posted a 30.1% drop in sales for January, year-on-year, marking the fifth straight month of declining sales for the world’s largest electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer.
Indian Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri appeared to confirm President Donald Trump’s claim that New Delhi would be expanding Venezuelan oil purchases in comments on Monday, stating that India was already buying Venezuelan oil and has refineries specially outfitted to handle crude from that country.
Nearly two hundred members of the Iranian American community in the Alamo City gathered over the weekend to show support for protesters in Iran seeking to topple the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei government. Rally-goers joined in chants calling for freedom for Iran, while passing motorists honked their horns in support of their cause.
Ambassador Laura Dogu met with Venezuela’s “acting President” Delcy Rodríguez and her brother Jorge on Monday, hours after arriving in the country amid the ongoing reopening process of the U.S. embassy in Caracas.
U.S. Ambassador to Panama Kevin Cabrera over the weekend emphasized in an official statement that the recent ruling from Panama’s Supreme Court nullifying two Canal port contracts awarded to a China-linked company strongly affirms the rule of law.
The Dhaka Special Court in Bangladesh on Monday sentenced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to ten years in prison on two corruption indictments.
Locals in multiple communities throughout Nigeria reported a wave of violence believed to be attributed to jihadist actors over the weekend, including a particularly deadly suspected Boko Haram attack leaving at least 25 dead. Reports of such attacks surfaced in
Mexican officials are going on the defensive in response to reporting in Peter Schweizer’s latest book, The Invisible Coup.
Costa Rica’s 39-year-old conservative politician Laura Fernández became president-elect of the Central American nation on Sunday, winning a 15-point lead ahead of her closest rival in the first round of the election.
The Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) has ended its experiment with legalizing hard drugs, and the consensus among both public officials and citizens is that the program was a complete failure.
