A still-unidentified Ukrainian man whose car was crushed by an armored vehicle in Kyiv on February 25 resurfaced this week in an interview published by the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).
Zhang Lianqi, a top political adviser to the Chinese Communist Party, recently proposed the party create a law that would punish any Chinese citizen for violating his or her “responsibility to promote reunification,” referring to Beijing’s repeated threats to “reunify” the independent nation of Taiwan with China, the South China Morning Post reported Wednesday.
Moderna finalized an agreement with Kenya’s government on Monday to build the U.S.-based pharmaceutical giant’s first manufacturing facility for mRNA vaccines on the African continent, Africanews reported Tuesday.
The Justice Department announced Tuesday that a dual U.S. and Russian citizen had been charged for allegedly being an illegal Russian agent.
South Koreans elected right-wing candidate Yoon Suk-yeol as their new president on Wednesday, Yonhap News Agency reported on Thursday local time in Seoul.
The Foreign Ministry of Russia claimed on Tuesday that the nation’s military had “confirmed” the existence of American-funded biological laboratories in Ukraine used for developing “biological weapons.”
A U.S. nonprofit group, comprised of “mostly special operation veterans,” is conducting rescue and humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.
Israel believes Russia and Ukraine are at a critical juncture and pending a possible ceasefire, but if talks fail, the Russian invasion of Ukraine could become far more brutal, the Axios news site reported Wednesday citing government officials.
The region of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro freed two American citizens, identified as an oil executive and a tourist, late Tuesday night following a meeting between the socialist leader and a delegation sent by President Joe Biden.
Leaders from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have reportedly refused to take phone calls from President Joe Biden during the Ukraine crisis, after he snubbed them repeatedly during the first year of his administration.
Growing international boycotts against doing business with Russia have created opportunities for Chinese firms with fewer scruples about supporting aggressive tyranny. One of those opportunistic Chinese companies is reportedly electronics giant Huawei, which was already Russia’s top telecom equipment provider.
New Zealand recorded its highest single-day tally of new Chinese coronavirus cases on Tuesday, a development that seemed to cast doubt on the efficacy of the nation’s strict pandemic measures.
Recent commercial satellite images of North Korea’s Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, which the communist regime claimed it had destroyed in 2018, suggest the center has resumed construction activities for the first time since, the Associated Press (AP) reported Tuesday.
Russian occupying forces have disconnected Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine from the national power grid igniting safety fears at the site, the global nuclear watchdog warned Wednesday.
RIYADH – Air defense systems have been front and center at Saudi Arabia’s first defence show as drone and missile attacks increase in the energy-rich Gulf.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris leaves for Poland on Wednesday to broach the matter of “military assistance” for Ukraine, White House officials said, hours after Washington dismissed Warsaw’s unilateral plan to transfer Soviet-era MIG-29 fighter jets to a U.S. military base in Germany.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday her staff recorded 304 deaths caused by military airstrikes in northern Ethiopia since November 2021 “apparently carried out by the Ethiopian Air Force.”
China recorded its highest daily Chinese coronavirus tally in two years on Sunday, documenting 526 locally transmitted cases of the disease nationwide, the state-run Global Times reported Monday.
The Chinese state propaganda newspaper Global Times elevated the Russian government’s claims that its ongoing invasion of Ukraine is necessary to “de-Nazify” the country on Monday by accusing Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion militants of “involvement” in the 2019 Hong Kong anti-communist protests.
Canada’s National Post on Monday found Prime Minister Justin Trudeau awkwardly trying to upsell Canadian fossil fuels to countries that have decided to boycott Russian oil, while at the same time insisting Canada remains committed to its “green energy” goals.
Baykar Defense, the Turkish company that manufactures the Bayraktar drones used to deadly effect by Ukraine’s defenders against the invading Russian army, on Tuesday anticipated booming sales across Asia for its already sizzling-hot weapon system.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky published a video on Instagram Monday night revealing that he remained in his presidential offices, using his cell phone to record the streets outside and declaring he would not go into hiding amid the ongoing war with Russia.
Armed gunmen identified only as “terrorists” broke into a church in Kaduna, Nigeria Tuesday and kidnapped the Catholic priest, Father Joseph Aketeh.
Colombian President Iván Duque expressed discomfort on Monday with the Biden administration’s outreach to Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, whose gas President Joe Biden reportedly covets to alleviate shortages due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin spoke by phone with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Tuesday, urging him to bring an end to the armed attacks on Ukraine.
Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro confirmed during a Monday night broadcast that President Joe Biden had sent a delegation to Caracas for a “respectful, cordial, diplomatic” discussion.
A 70-year-old man attacked the chairman of South Korea’s ruling party Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), Song Young-gi, with a hammer during a campaign stop in Seoul on Monday, causing Song to suffer injuries to his head requiring stitches, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported.
Former California Governor Jerry Brown urged the U.S. not to expand domestic oil and gas production to help in the crisis triggered by the ongoing Russian war because climate change is like a war that will kill people over a long period of time.
Multiple news outlets reported that a ban on Russian oil and natural gas is expected as soon as Tuesday.
Saudi Arabian security forces arrested 150 people for trying to illegally cross the border into the kingdom between February 24 and March 2, “of whom 46 percent were Yemeni nationals [and] 42 percent were Ethiopians,” the Saudi Gazette reported this weekend.
Liu Jiacheng, a member of China’s National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), recently submitted a proposal to the body suggesting Beijing help fight human trafficking by establishing a “nationwide DNA database for kindergartens and primary schools as soon as possible,” the Global Times reported Sunday.
President Joe Biden’s impending agreement to restore the Iran nuclear deal offers the regime access to $90 billion in foreign currency reserves and sanctions relief to some of the world’s worst terrorists, according to a former State Department official.
A troubled U.S. plan to send Soviet-era fighter jets via a transit in Poland to Ukraine is still being debated in the Biden administration, NBC reported Tuesday, just days after the possibility was flatly rejected as “fake news” by the Polish government.
Chinese health officials said Monday they documented 526 new, domestically transmitted Chinese coronavirus cases across 13 provinces, the state-run Global Times reported.
Japanese clothing giant Uniqlo, embroiled in controversy last year for refusing to stop buying cotton from China’s slave fields in Xinjiang province, on Monday refused to close its stores in Russia as other fashion houses have done.
Russia detained at least 4,600 people at protests against the war in Ukraine on Sunday, 1,700 of them in Moscow. Protesters used social media to accuse the police of using excessive force to make the arrests, including shots of detainees beaten bloody with police batons.
The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance, an organization comprised of multiple anti-communist groups on the island and in the diaspora, organized an event on Sunday in support of Ukraine amid its ongoing war with Russia.
Libya’s state-run National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced on Monday that militia fighters shut down the Sharara oil field, the largest in the country, plus another vital oil field at el-Feel.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Monday his government will “continue resorting to active measures in order to settle this critical situation in Ukraine.”
The hedge fund manager, who is as famous for his epic failures as his mammoth wins, echoed the lines of those calling for the U.S. to do more to stop Russia.
