The Kremlin expressed very mild optimism on Wednesday for possible improvements in relations between the United States and Russia under the second Trump administration, although the Russians remained skeptical that Trump can deliver on his promise to make peace in Ukraine.
The Iranian regime loudly insisted on Wednesday morning that the outcome of the U.S. presidential election does not matter to Tehran’s long-term plans, because there was no real difference between victorious President-elect Donald Trump and defeated Vice President Kamala Harris from the Iranian perspective.
Andrii Kovalenko of the Ukraine Security Council says Ukrainian forces have begun shelling North Korean mercenaries in Russia.
The Jerusalem Post on Monday reported a Lebanese professor of sociology named Dr. Hassan Diab, convicted by a French court of involvement in a 1980 bombing that killed four people at a synagogue in Paris, is teaching a course on “social justice in action” at Carleton University in Ottawa.
The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) of China wrote a social media post on Monday warning young officers and soldiers to avoid online dating and gambling.
North Korea launched several short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan on Tuesday, just hours before the U.S. presidential election kicked into high gear.
Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby threatened on Sunday to withdraw his country’s forces from the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF), a counter-terrorism alliance of African nations bordering the Lake Chad basin.
Kazem Jalali, Iran’s ambassador to Russia, said on Monday that Russia will launch two Iranian satellites into orbit on Tuesday, November 5, which is Election Day in the United States.
Russian official Dmitry Medvedev warned that Donald Trump could “share the fate” of JFK if he tries to end the Ukraine war.
China’s “Bat Lady” Shi Zhengli, a leading researcher from the Wuhan Institute of Virology whose work may have played a role in the murky origins of the coronavirus pandemic, is back to conducting coronavirus research in partnership with Western scientists, including from the University of Washington.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday lashed out against the “zero” response of his Western allies to reports that thousands of North Korean mercenaries are preparing to fight on Russia’s behalf.
Natalia Kosikhina, a senator from Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, called for a ban on Halloween celebrations in all Russian schools on Thursday, denouncing the holiday as an unwelcome Western influence.
An alarming new report from the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security reveals Chinese hackers lurked undetected in Canadian government systems for years.
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) issued a statement on Thursday that said it would conduct a massive campaign over the next two months to erase all content deemed “illegal and harmful” by Chinese Communist Party censors.
The German Foreign Ministry on Tuesday recalled Ambassador to Iran Markus Potzel, then summoned Iran’s envoy in Berlin to lodge a formal protest against Iran’s execution of Jamshid Sharmahd, a German citizen who resided in California.
China hit American drone manufacturer Skydio with sanctions this month, potentially cutting the company’s supply chain and preventing it from supplying more drones to the Ukrainian military.
A Russian court on Wednesday slapped Google with a fine of $20 decillion dollars for refusing to run propaganda from Russian state media.
The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) issued a statement on Wednesday that “strongly warned” Israel against “any attempts to dismantle or diminish” the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) – the Palestinian relief agency that has been repeatedly linked to the terrorists of Hamas.
Zhu Fenglian, a spokeswoman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, said on Wednesday that Taiwan could be “discarded” if Donald Trump returns to the White House and implements his America First foreign policy.
Canadian Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister David Morrison on Tuesday accused Indian Home Minister Amit Shah, a close ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, of masterminding plots to kill Sikh separatists on Canadian soil.
President Mahama Idriss Deby of Chad on Tuesday ordered a “nationwide military response” against the terrorists of Boko Haram, who killed over forty Chadian troops in an attack in the Lake Chad Basin.
A private company in China with a name that riffs on “Trump Victory” surged by ten percent in value on Monday and Tuesday, even as blue-chip stocks on the Chinese market slid by up to one percent.
Members of the Liberal Party of Canada are calling for a secret ballot to determine if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should step down as the leader of the party, Canadian media reported on Monday.
Young people in Shanghai, China, took to the streets in Halloween costumes over the weekend despite rainy weather and a grumpy ban on holiday decorations, costumes, and anything with “horror or violence-related elements.”
A report published on Monday by Oxfam claimed that “carbon inequality” – meaning “the emissions of the world’s super-rich 1%” – is “causing economic losses of trillions of dollars, contributing to huge crop losses, and leading to millions of excess deaths.”
Hezbollah’s ruling Shura Council on Tuesday announced that the terrorists have chosen Naim Qassem to replace longtime dictator Hassan Nasrallah as leader of the terrorist organization and Lebanese political party.
Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) appears to have lost its majority in the lower house of parliament for the first time since 2009, reports from the country revealed on Monday.
Hundreds of thousands of South Korean Christians demonstrated in Seoul on Sunday to protest a court ruling that would allow same-sex couples to receive insurance from the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS).
A group of about two hundred North Korean defectors is asking to be deployed in Ukraine so they can help with demoralizing and influencing the roughly 12,000 North Korean troops allegedly dispatched to fight for Russia, a report revealed on Monday.
China threatened on Saturday to take “resolute countermeasures” against a $2 billion sale of arms by the United States to Taiwan.
Mint Sandstorm, the suspected Iranian state hackers who stole a trove of emails from several of former President Donald Trump’s campaign staffers this spring, reportedly succeeded in getting some of the pilfered documents published this fall, Reuters reported on Friday.
A United Nations helicopter was hit by several rounds of gunfire while flying over Haiti on Thursday, forcing the chopper to land in the capital of Port-au-Prince.
Zhao Xing, China’s ambassador to Afghanistan, said on Thursday that Beijing will soon offer “zero-tariff” trade to the Taliban regime.
The latest twist in the saga of assisted suicide in Canada – or Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID), as the Canadians prefer to call it – involves an Ontario man in his late 40s who the government killed for “post Covid-19 vaccination syndrome.”
The China-dominated BRICS economic bloc on Thursday announced it has added 13 nations as “partner countries,” including three African nations: Nigeria, Algeria, and Uganda. These partners will have much more limited involvement than full BRICS members, but some or all of them could aspire to membership in the future.
Unhappy members of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party lashed out at him during a closed-door caucus meeting Wednesday.
Iranian authorities unveiled a horrific mural in Tehran featuring blood-splattered photos of the Israeli civilians abducted by Hamas.
Iranian state media claimed this week that Saudi Arabia wishes to “organize joint exercises in the Red Sea.” Saudi Arabia’s Defense Ministry curtly stated on Wednesday that no such exercises are currently being planned.
Russian President Vladimir Putin scored a public relations victory on the second day of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, by embracing Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi — a photo opportunity that sent the message that Western efforts to diplomatically and economically isolate Russia for invading Ukraine have failed.
Four people were killed, and 14 more wounded, in an apparent terrorist attack on Wednesday against Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI), a leading state-owned defense firm headquartered near the capital city of Ankara.
