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“Relying on only vaccines cannot contain [Chinese coronavirus],” Wu Zunyou, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s chief epidemiologist, told China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday.

Famed Chinese dissident artist Badiucao reported on Friday that satirical posters he created to lampoon the Beijing Winter Olympics were banned at George Washington University (GWU), ostensibly because the Chinese artist is guilty of “racism.” After a weekend of intense focus from human rights organizations, the university backed down on its threat to remove the posters and punish the students who displayed them.

Unidentified gunmen stormed a Catholic parish in Kaduna State, Nigeria, Sunday evening, abducting the parish priest and killing the cook.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki appeared at the press briefing podium on Monday displaying a Team USA water bottle and pin as she urged Americans to watch the Olympics.

Peter Schweizer’s new bestseller “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win” blows the whistle on a little game played by pro-Beijing politicians in Washington, a tactic summed up as “big help With a little badmouth.” The idea is to throw out a little tepid public criticism of China to maintain deniability while collaborating with the Chinese Communist Party and its business interests behind the scenes.

Much of the American and Canadian media establishment is laboring to portray the Freedom Convoy protest against vaccine mandates in Canada as a small but loud group of fringe extremists. Photos from cities across Canada this weekend demonstrated the true size and diversity of the movement, which is clearly more than just a handful of truckers honking their horns in Ottawa.

The Chinese government-run Global Times newspaper asserted in a column on Sunday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) “was right” to tell athletes last week to resist criticizing the Communist Party while competing in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

“I HAVEN’T HUGGED MY MOM IN 2 YEARS!! STOP THE MANDATES,” read a sign held by a woman attending a Saturday demonstration in Vancouver, BC, in opposition to government edicts ostensibly issued for health and safety purposes related to coronavirus transmission.

A 91-year-old Holocaust survivor who was seriously wounded when a rocket fired from the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip hit her home in southern Israel last year died this week.

Recently declassified intelligence claiming Russia is preparing an elaborate “false flag” operation to create a pretext to invade Ukraine, just as the Biden administration dispatched thousands of U.S. troops to Eastern Europe while warning Ukraine faces an “imminent threat” seems “just a little too convenient,” according to former National Security Council (NSC) chief of staff and CIA official Fred Fleitz, who called for the release of the intelligence report for further analysis.

Israel aided the U.S. in eliminating the Islamic State terror leader leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi last week, Israeli media reported.

North Korea has maintained the development of its nuclear and ballistic missile programs in defiance of all promises made to the United Nations, a report released Saturday reveals.

MUSCAT – A wave of foreign imitations and alternative styles has prompted Oman to take tough action to preserve its unique national dress, threatening thousands of dollars in fines for men who wear the wrong sort of dishdasha.

His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, warned Friday that tensions between Russia and Ukraine are symptomatic of a much larger problem between Russia and the West.

A former ambassador to Canada appointed under President Barack Obama cautioned U.S. groups late Saturday night they must not pursue cross-border “disruptive activities” by funding Canadian Freedom Convoy protesters in Ottawa and beyond.

Iran declared Saturday that President Joe Biden’s removal of sanctions against the regime’s civilian nuclear program was “not good enough,” as the administration continues its year-long effort to woo Iran back to negotiations to return to the 2015 deal.

Father Richard Masivi Kasereka was gunned down this week in the DR Congo, allegedly by Muslim terrorists from the Allied Democratic Forces, a group linked to the Islamic State.

The Bangladeshi Education Ministry extended an existing closure of its public and private schools this week through February 20 citing concerns about the spread of coronavirus, “raising eyebrows” among some observers as the decision coincided with the federal government’s easing of gathering restrictions for non-essential business events, such as trade fairs thronged by thousands of people, the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday.

Children in Japan are “recommended to wear masks when possible” to prevent virus transmission at daycare facilities, a Japanese government panel wrote in an official recommendation Friday, according to Kyodo News.

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg will take over as Norway’s central bank governor at the end of the year, officials said Friday.

Zhao Weidong, the spokesman for China’s Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, said on Thursday that the opening ceremony for the Games would squelch all “banter” about boycotting the event to protest the Chinese government’s human rights abuses.

“Progressive” caucus leader Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) accused Israel of “war crimes” shortly after visiting Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, prompting then-U.S. Ambassador David Friedman to walk out of a meeting with her in 2018.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin praised Russian athletes on Friday for their participation in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing – who are playing despite a massive doping scandal resulting in Russia being officially banned from the Games.

An NBC broadcaster said, “China styles itself as a champion of the developing world” during the opening ceremony of the Genocide Games.

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Brian Leung denounced mainstream corporations for supporting Beijing’s hosting of the 2022 Winter Olympics at a “#NoBeijing2022” rally on Thursday in Washington, DC, saying their sponsoring of the event equates to tacit approval of the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights violations.

Tibetan exiles and supporters of Tibetan freedom gathered outside Chinese embassies, Olympic headquarters, and NBC studios to protest the Beijing Winter Olympics, derided by critics as the “Genocide Games” because the event risks validating Communist China’s brutal suppression of minorities like the Tibetans and Uyghur Muslims.

Kyiv and Ankara signed a preliminary deal during bilateral talks this week to manufacture Turkish drones in Ukraine, Bloomberg reported.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach celebrated successfully organizing the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on Thursday despite an ongoing genocide in the host country, condemning not the genocide, but those who oppose it for reviving “boycott ghosts” to threaten the event.

Spokespeople for the Biden administration appeared surprised and confused on Thursday after journalists questioned two major allegations from the White House: that the U.S. military did not kill the woman and children that died in an operation in Syria this week and that Russia is allegedly planning a “fabricated attack” as an excuse to invade Ukraine again.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin held a summit with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Beijing Winter Olympics, which Putin is technically banned from, on Friday.

House Democrats passed the America COMPETES Act on Friday, which many conservatives contend would not help the United States better compete with China.

Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters on Thursday that he did not believe deploying the Canadian military against a mostly peaceful anti-coronavirus mandate protest in Ottawa was “in the cards.”

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus served as a torchbearer in the last leg of the Olympic relay in Beijing on Friday, lending his support to an event the victims of communism assert is a celebration of genocide and other human rights atrocities.

The governments of China and Argentina finalized an agreement on Tuesday to build a nuclear plant in Argentina based on Chinese technology and backed by $8 billion worth of Chinese financing, World Nuclear News (WNN) reported on Wednesday. The nuclear

India’s foreign ministry on Thursday announced a diplomatic “boycott” of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in response to China’s decision to elect a Chinese soldier who fought against India in a June 2020 border skirmish as a torchbearer for the Games, India’s CNN-News18 reported.

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday described Russian President Vladimir Putin as Beijing’s “most important guest” of the 2022 Winter Olympics despite the fact Russia’s national Olympic team is banned from competition by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).