The Chinese state-run Global Times newspaper applauded its bosses on Tuesday for playing “an increasing important role” in helping the Taliban cement its stranglehold on Afghanistan through business ventures, particularly in pursuit of the country’s vast mineral wealth.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Tuesday described U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan on August 2 as “a brazen demonstration of disrespect for other countries and their own international commitments,” referring to China’s illegal territorial claims to the sovereign island nation of Taiwan, Russia’s official government website reported.
Beijing announced on Tuesday that it had detected 629 infections of the Chinese coronavirus in Tibet since the Chinese autonomous region’s latest epidemic of the disease began in recent days, prompting China’s ruling Communist Party to lock down Tibet’s prefecture-level city of Shigatse last week.
China’s economic reports from July paint a grim picture of an economy in free-fall, with virtually every metric of growth – or even stability – coming in far below expectations.
Conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol met with billionaire Microsoft founder and vaccine advocate Bill Gates on Tuesday to discuss Seoul’s current and future plans to cooperate with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to further vaccine research and development both within South Korea and worldwide, Yonhap News Agency reported.
Sinopharm, a Chinese state-run pharmaceutical company, announced on Monday that it had submitted an application for clinical trials of an “Omicron-specific mRNA COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] vaccine [candidate]” that it allegedly produced, China’s state-run Global Times reported.
China’s state-run Global Times took a victory lap on Monday, the one-year anniversary of President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, hailing the debacle as the death of American “hegemony” and a humiliation the United States will never overcome.
The RAF has paused its hiring of white men so as to hit its diversity quotas for women and ethnic minorities, an officer has claimed.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia is ready to provide the “most advanced types of weapons” to its allied nations, including the socialist regimes in Latin America, in a move to expand Russia’s arms trade with its allies.
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas told Germans on Tuesday, in the presence of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, that Israel had committed “50 Holocausts.”
Reuters on Monday dispatched reporters to the village of Yaroun in southern Lebanon, the “ancestral home” of Hadi Matar, the 24-year-old man who rushed onstage and attacked author Salman Rushdie with a knife on Friday.
Kenya’s long, slow presidential election concluded on Monday, with anti-China candidate William Ruto declared the winner by 50.5 percent to 49 percent against Raila Odinga, chosen candidate of outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta.
A store in Mayabeque, Cuba, boasted of rewarding first responders for helping extinguish the largest fire in the history of the nation with a meager supply of chicken, deodorant, soda, and cooking oil this week – basic goods that have for decades been considered luxuries for many suffering under communism.
Taliban “foreign minister” Amir Khan Muttaqi urged the world to “cooperate with” the Sunni terrorist organization, rather than “sanction” it, at an event to mark the one-year anniversary of the fall of the government of Afghanistan on Monday.
China’s state-run Global Times propaganda newspaper praised the government of Hungary under self-proclaimed conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday for greenlighting the construction of a Chinese electric vehicle battery factory and being “rational and pragmatic” in maintaining friendly relations with the Chinese Communist Party.
Eyewitnesses in Gaza have confirmed Israel’s account that rockets fired by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group were responsible for the deaths of several Palestinians, including children, after they fell short of their target during last week’s three-day conflict.
Estonia’s government said Tuesday it has decided to remove a Soviet-era monument from public space in an eastern border town.
The state-run Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) announced on Sunday that it recorded a 90 percent year-on-year increase in its net income in the second quarter of 2022, amounting to a record-high profit of $48.4 billion, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
An electrical fire broke out at a Coptic Christian church outside of Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday, killing at least 41 congregants, including “mostly children” gathered inside the house of worship for Mass, Reuters reported Monday.
Zimbabwe’s government last week blamed recent gatherings by members of the country’s various Apostolic sects for an ongoing outbreak of measles that has killed 80 children nationwide since April, Reuters reported on Sunday.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani on Monday delivered the Iranian regime’s first public comment on the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie. Kanaani denied the Iranian government orchestrated the attack, instead holding Rushdie responsible for his own attempted murder.
A group of about 40 women converged on the education ministry in Kabul on Saturday, chanting “bread, work, and freedom!” to protest the Taliban’s hideous treatment of women. The Taliban responded by beating the protesters with rifle butts and firing gunshots in the air to break up the rally.
U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price incorrectly labeled the Haqqani network and the Taliban as “separate entities” on August 27, 2021, when responding to a reporter’s question at a press briefing concerning the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden’s chaotic withdrawal of U.S. armed forces from Afghanistan that month.
President Donald Trump’s claim that his “passports” were seized in the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago last week could have major legal implications for any investigation into him: it could mean his Fourth Amendment rights were violated in the search.
Jamil Hassan, an Afghan translator who worked for Gens. David Petraeus (Ret.) and John Nicholson (Ret.) and author of Promises Betrayed: An Afghan Interpreter at The Fall of Kabul, said on SirusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak that President Joe Biden’s decisions regarding the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Afghanistan led to “chaos.”
Colombia’s brand-new, far-left government announced this weekend that it would halt all contracts for natural gas exploration and production, a move that will put an end to Colombia’s self-sufficiency in natural gas.
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan called on U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday to reverse a decision to oust a senior official after she posted a tweet condemning Gaza terrorist rocket fire in the wake of Israel’s conflict with the Islamic Jihad terror group.
The office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has published its final report on the “theft of funds from Afghanistan,” with particular attention to “allegations concerning President Ghani and former senior Afghan officials.”
China, through its official Foreign Ministry and propaganda arms, celebrated the anniversary of the Taliban jihadist organization seizing power on Monday by repeatedly condemning America for its “failures” in the country and praising the Taliban for its “advanced” governance and improved “security.”
One year after President Joe Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan, and two weeks after Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was liquidated by a U.S. airstrike while living as a guest of the Taliban in Kabul, it’s worth taking a look back at the February 2020 decision by the New York Times to give top terrorist leader Sirajuddin Haqqani space to explain “What We, the Taliban, Want.”
The Taliban jihadist organization celebrated the one-year anniversary of its takeover of Afghanistan on Monday by declaring a national holiday, applauding itself for its alleged “achievements,” and demanding America fund its success.
When the Taliban jihadist organization returned to power in Afghanistan a year ago on Monday, its spokesmen promised one thing above all: the new and improved Taliban regime would be “inclusive.”
A band of unidentified gunmen have kidnapped a Catholic priest along with a seminarian in southern Nigeria, demanding a ransom of $120,000 for their release.
An Arab resident of eastern Jerusalem shot seven people, including four American citizens, near Jerusalem’s Old City overnight Saturday, before turning himself in to police after an intense hours-long manhunt.
The head of a U.N. office tasked with Palestinian aid has been fired after posting a tweet condemning Gaza terrorist rocket fire in the wake of Israel’s conflict with the Islamic Jihad terror group.
The government of Argentina officially seized a Venezuelan-Iranian cargo airplane on Thursday that had been detained alongside its crew since June.
An organized crime syndicate called the Anegasaki-kai has recently disbanded after operating within Tokyo’s old downtown district since about 1912, investigative sources told the Asahi Shimbun newspaper Friday.
Tokyo has allegedly agreed to work jointly with the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) to create a new body of the U.N. public health agency that will promote universal health coverage in developing countries, Japanese Foreign Ministry sources told Kyodo News Thursday.
The government of New Delhi, India’s national capital, recently reinforced a sanitary mask mandate for public spaces in an effort to contain a recent spike in the number of local Chinese coronavirus cases, India’s WION news website reported on Friday.
China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday declared the “partisan infighting drama” over the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s residence was proof the United States has degenerated into a “banana republic.”
