John Hayward

Turkish police detained dozens of protesters in Istanbul on Wednesday when they ignored a ban on Communist “May Day” demonstrations.

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar says India has 21 ships deployed to protect commecial shipping from terrorism and piracy.

A mob of angry students attacked German Ambassador to the Palestinian Authority Oliver Owcza at Birzeit University in the West Bank.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said on Tuesday that representatives from the two main Palestinian factions, the terrorist organization Hamas and Fatah, made progress at recent “unity talks” held in Beijing.

Elon Musk paid a surprise visit to China to secure Chinese government approval for the automatic driving features of his Teslas.

Bill Gates announced his foundation will open an office in Riyadh as Saudi Arabia pledged $500 million to a polio vaccination initiative.

Haiti’s recently-empaneled transitional council announced on Saturday that it will vote for a new president on Tuesday, five days after Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s resignation left the country without official leadership.

Iranian President Raisi visited Sri Lanka to launch a hydropower project, and a Russian company has taken over China’s white-elephant airport.

U.S. forces were expelled from both Niger and Chad this week, dealing a serious blow to the Biden administration’s diplomacy and counter-terrorism policies in Africa.

Iranian officials and media express support for the vicious and violent antisemitic protests breaking out on American college campuses.

The Congo has sent Apple a cease-and-desist order threatening legal action unless the tech giant stops using allegedly illegally exported minerals.

Russia on Wednesday used its veto power at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to block a resolution sponsored by the United States and Japan to ban nuclear weapons in outer space.

Canada’s 2024 wildfire season has kicked into high gear with over 120 wildfires in the drought-stricken British Columbia and Alberta regions.

The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents resume terrorist attacks against Red Sea shipping after a two-week pause.

Armenian organizations were outraged by President Joe Biden’s Armenian Remembrance Day statement on Wednesday because he did not mention modern genocide against Armenian Christians of the Nagorno-Karabakh region completed this year by the conquering armies of Muslim Azerbaijan.

Abu Ubaida, a spokesman for Hamas’s paramilitary al-Qassam Brigades, on Tuesday praised the Iranian missile attack on Israel and called for “escalation” on every front of the conflict.

A report published by cybersecurity firm Mandiant last week claimed that a gang of hackers linked to the Russian government has attacked water utility companies around the world, including a treatment plant in the northern Texas town of Muleshoe.

North Korean state media reported on Wednesday that the Communist tyranny dispatched an economic delegation to Iran.

The 2023 edition of the State Department’s annual human rights report blasts China for repression, torture, and genocide.

An Israeli parliamentary delegation visited Taiwan last week, led by Boaz Toporovsky, a sitting member of the Israeli Knesset and chairman of the Taiwan-Israel Friendship Group.

A report published from watchdog group 38 North suggests U.S. animation companies may have unwittingly used work from North Korea.

India’s main opposition party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “hate speech” for referring to Muslims as “infiltrators.”

India’s election authority voided the results of the parliamentary vote from 11 locations in the troubled state of Manipur on Monday and held a do-over with heavy security, in response to complaints that armed men interfered with voting and destroyed some of the balloting machines.

India’s Supreme Court reserves judgment on the appeal to a lower court ruling that said watching child pornography is not a crime.

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad claims his regime has meetings “from time to time” with officials from the Biden administration.

Floods ravaging the southern province of Guangdong, China, killed four people, and ten more are missing, Chinese state media reported Monday.

Haitian gang leader Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier ordered his men to “burn every house you find” as the transitional council prepares to meet.

Haitian civil society groups argue that France should pay at least $150 billion in reparations to Haiti for slavery and its aftermath.

Indonesia’s Mount Ruang volcano erupted at least five times, prompting a high-level alert for more eruptions and a tsunami warning.

FBI director Chris Wray said at a security conference on Thursday that China’s legion of state-sponsored hackers “considers every sector that makes our society run as fair game in its bid to dominate on the world stage.” 

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was hit by exceptionally heavy rainfall this week, bringing flash floods that caused at least four fatalities and virtually shut down the city of Dubai.

The United Nations on Thursday was accused of spreading pro-Hamas propaganda through one of its online newsletters, including links to websites that organized protests to block roads in American cities on April 15 in violation of U.S. law.

Canadian and American officials announced the arrest of six suspects in a $16 million robbery that stands as Canada’s largest gold heist.

Voting begins on Friday in India’s massive election for the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the national Parliament.

Indian police killed at least 29 suspected Maoist rebels in a furious gun battle in the central state of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday.

Haiti finally announced the membership of its “presidential transition council” on Tuesday, taking an important step toward removing unelected and wildly unpopular Prime Minister Ariel Henry from power and possibly ending the massive gangster insurrection that has plagued the country since February.