Fifteen-year-old Russian skater Kamila Valieva, bizarrely permitted to continue competing in the disastrous Beijing Winter Olympics after failing a drug test, claimed through her lawyers on Tuesday that she might have drunk from a water glass contaminated by her grandfather’s heart medication.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrision on Sunday called out China for being “chillingly silent” on the alleged looming Russian threat against Ukraine.
Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, under fire for his poor handling his country’s anti-mandate protests, praised China’s dictatorship in a resurfaced video from 2013.
Two Canadian Civil Liberties groups criticised Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for invoking the Emergencies Act on Monday, arguing the move could normalise emergency legislation and threaten democracy.
The Russian government claimed on Tuesday that several military units have completed “scheduled drills” along the Ukrainian border and will now return to their permanent bases, bringing their armor and artillery with them.
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday celebrated the 2022 Winter Olympics’ first day without a new positive Chinese coronavirus infection since the Games began on February 4 in Beijing.
The Canadian Press revealed on Monday that an alleged hack shows the majority of funds to the civil rights “Freedom Convoy” in the country on the website GiveSendGo come from Canada.
Several Canadian provincial executives resisted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s invocation of emergency powers on Monday to shut down the Freedom Convoy protests against vaccine mandates.
Top-ranked tennis champion Novak Djokovic broke his silence after his detention and deportation from Australia in an interview published by the BBC on Tuesday, defining himself as not against vaccinations generally but unconvinced that currently available Chinese coronavirus vaccine products are right for him.
The office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was forced to clarify on Monday night that his announcement declaring Wednesday a public holiday because of an alleged Russian invasion was intended as “irony” and mockery of anonymous media reports, not a confirmation that Russia will invade on Wednesday.
Chinese Communist Party officials in eastern China’s Suzhou city shut down most medical services and schools across the metropolis of 10.72 million people on Monday allegedly in an attempt to contain just eight new cases of the Chinese coronavirus, China’s state-run Global Times reported.
A number of shops in Saudi Arabia conspicuously sold red lingerie in advance of Monday’s Valentine’s Day holiday despite the Islamic kingdom banning the use of the term “Valentine’s Day” to promote sales, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Monday.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) cautioned Tuesday the threat of armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine is not the only concern on the horizon, pointing to rising coronavirus rates in Eastern Europe as the source of more worries.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said on Sunday that the crisis in Ukraine is just a distraction, while the “real war” of interest to free people around the world is being fought over authoritarian coronavirus mandates in Europe, Canada, and the United States.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled on Monday to allow Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva to continue competing in the 2022 Winter Olympics after a urine sample she submitted in December 2021 tested positive for trimetazidine, an anti-angina drug the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) prohibits athletes from using both in and out of competition.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Monday that he had officially decreed Wednesday – which various anonymous reports had pegged as the first date of an alleged Russian invasion – the Ukrainian “Day of Unity,” a holiday to celebrate the country’s sovereignty.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) shut down a road leading to the Pacific Highway border crossing — which connects Canada and the U.S. via their respective towns of Surrey and Blaine — on Monday in an effort to block anti-coronavirus vaccine mandate protesters from walking toward the U.S. border on foot, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported.
China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday accused U.S. President Joe Biden of seeking to provoke a war between Ukraine and Russia because he wants to boost the American economy at the expense of those in Asia and Europe, while “using the tension to stir up trouble for China-Russia ties.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time to squash the ongoing Freedom Convoy protests against Wuhan coronavirus restrictions, potentially giving the Canadian leader sweeping emergency powers.
Chinese state media on Sunday swooned over American snowboarder Tessa Maud, who won no medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics but made herself useful to the Chinese Communist Party by praising her hosts and gushing over the Olympic Village accommodations, at a time when other athletes were complaining about hideous food and substandard living conditions.
Political observers and pollsters have appeared baffled in the past few years by the Hispanic community’s clear and growing affinity to conservative politics. For Hispanics who appreciate their own culture and unique place in American history, none of this is a surprise.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on Friday that plans are under way to remove “almost all restrictions for businesses,” including the controversial “vaccine passport system” that inspired the Freedom Convoy protests.
Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing a popularity collapse, several polls published this weekend found, in the aftermath of his handling of the ongoing “Freedom Convoy” anti-mandate protests – with both supporters and opponents of the protesters.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday flew to Bahrain in what would be the the first-ever official visit by an Israeli leader to the country.
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden described a predicted invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces as “imminent enough” on Sunday after appearing to promise not to use the word “imminent,” as it clearly outraged officials in Kyiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky invited his American counterpart Joe Biden to Kyiv to see for himself the absence of any imminent threat of war in a conversation on Sunday after telling reporters that officials in his country had no evidence to support the “panic” in the White House about an allegedly imminent Russian invasion.
Violence broke out between Israelis and Palestinians in the flashpoint east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah Sunday after an Israeli lawmaker reopened a makeshift “office” at the site in protest over a firebombing of a Jewish home. The move prompted the Hamas terror group to warn “Palestine would burn over Jerusalem.”
The number of people using heroin under Kabul’s notorious Pul-e-Sukhta bridge — long synonymous with hard drug use — has increased since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021, people living near the bridge told Deutsche Welle (DW) on Thursday.
A Muslim mob stoned to death a 41-year-old man accused of blasphemy in Pakistan Saturday evening, before hanging his body from a tree.
Pope Francis once again appealed for peace between Russia and Ukraine Sunday, amidst continued worrisome reports of Russian military buildup at the border between the two countries.
The Chinese Communist Party recently issued an edict directing family planning associations across China to “intervene in abortions among unmarried people and adolescents,” the state outlet Global Times reported on Friday.
An “unidentified man” allegedly punched a South Korean diplomat on a Manhattan sidewalk on Wednesday night in New York City, causing the South Korean to suffer a broken nose, the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) reported on Friday.
A gang of some 30 Islamic terrorists stormed a Catholic seminary in eastern Burkina Faso the night of February 10, burning two dormitories and destroying a crucifix.
Britain and the EU have advised their citizens to leave Ukraine, after President Biden warned a Russian invasion is imminent.
The U.S. Army published a report earlier this week on how it will deal with “global disruptions” from so-called climate change.
Chinese state media on Thursday howled in outrage at the latest Western media expose of human rights violations in East Turkistan, claiming the regime of concentration camps and forced labor for the Uyghur Muslims is actually a “Disney-like resort.”
Police in Fredericton, the capital of Canada’s New Brunswick province, told reporters on Thursday they “are not going to tolerate” any blocking of roads in the “downtown core” during an anti-coronavirus-restriction protest planned for Friday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported.
A South Korean civic group called the “Righteous People” tore up a Chinese Communist flag at a rally near the Chinese Embassy in Seoul on Friday.
Jake Sullivan is linked to the “Russia collusion” hoax, yet he is the administration’s point man on information about Russia’s intentions in Ukraine.
Austin has ordered an additional 3,000 American troops to Poland amid a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine.
