Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian used his address to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday to attack Israel on behalf of Iran’s terrorist clients in Hamas – an unsurprising, but perhaps slightly disappointing, tirade from an Iranian second-in-command who billed himself as a more compassionate, reformist leader.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spent over half of his very lengthy address to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday criticizing Israel for its war against the terrorists of Hamas and Hezbollah. Erdogan accused the Israelis of genocide, compared them to Nazi Germany, and demanded the U.N. authorize “coercive measures against Israel” to halt the war in Gaza.
The U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday it wants to ban Chinese and Russian software and hardware from Internet-connected and autonomous vehicles, citing the security risks to American drivers and U.S. national security.
Chinese economist Zhu Hengpeng, deputy director of the Institute of Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has disappeared after criticizing dictator Xi Jinping’s economic policies in a private online chat group.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres complains that growing distrust between major powers is getting in the way of climate cooperation.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran has reportedly ordered all of its members to stop using communications devices, at least until they can all be inspected.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held an event in New York on Sunday for thousands of Indians living in the United States.
Israeli warplanes targeted more than 300 Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon on Monday and Israel warned civilians to evacuate the area as more intense strikes are on the way.
The explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies that Lebanon’s Hezbollah terrorists obtained from foreign suppliers prompt worldwide anxiety.
Morocco arrested 152 people on charges of using social media to incite mass illegal immigration to Ceuta, a Spanish territory.
Japanese handheld radio manufacturer Icom denies any connection to the discontinued radios that exploded in Hezbollah’s hands.
The Lebanon National News Agency reported that rooftop solar arrays in Beirut exploded at the same as Hezbollah’s walkie-talkies.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, de facto chief executive of Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday condemned the “crimes of the Israeli occupation” against Palestinians.
John Dwyer, research director for cybersecurity firm Binary Defense, said in an interview on Wednesday that Chinese state-sponsored hackers were able to infiltrate the network of a U.S.-based global engineering firm and linger for months before they were discovered.
A ten-year-old Japanese boy died from his wounds on Thursday morning after he was stabbed by a 44-year-old Chinese man near a school in Shenzhen, China.
The U.S. agreed to help Kenya and El Salvador develop peaceful nuclear power at the annual International Atomic Energy Agency conference.
Americans who had contact with the suspect in an alleged failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Ryan Wesley Routh, were so alarmed by his erratic behavior in Ukraine that they alerted U.S. officials, who apparently did very little with the warnings.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came under even more pressure to resign after his Liberal Party lost a “safe seat” in Montreal.
Taiwanese company Gold Apollo, implicated as the supplier of the explodinig Hezbollah pagers, plans to sue the Hungarian licensee who made them.
The day after thousands of Hezbollah terror suspects were injured, and reportedly a dozen people killed, by their pagers almost simultaneously exploding, Lebanese and Iranian media reported a second wave of radio device detonations.
Demographic data reveals that Japan has a record-high population of more than 95,000 people aged 100 or over.
A Chinese national named Song Wu, employed by a gigantic Chinese state-owned defense conglomerate, was indicted in the Northern District of Georgia on Monday for a scheme to hack U.S. government agencies including NASA, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Meta — the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — said on Monday that Russian state media outlets have been banned from its platforms worldwide for “foreign interference activity.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the Russian Army to add 180,000 more troops, which would bring its total to 1.5 million active-duty soldiers — the second largest army in the world after China.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) handed out 37 death sentences in connection to the May coup attempt.
Police in Chennai, India, detained 104 striking employees of the local Samsung Electronics plant because they were allegedly planning to hold a protest march without obtaining proper permission.
A 27-year-old man named Chu Kai-pong pled guilty to “sedition” in a Hong Kong court Monday because he wore a t-shirt with a protest slogan.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday responded to the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump by suggesting it was a natural consequence of the United States supporting Ukraine against the Russian invasion.
South Korea has removed over 1,300 Chinese-made security cameras from miltiary bases after they were found to pose a security risk.
Police in Malaysia raided twenty Islamic charity homes on Wednesday, making 171 arrests and rescuing 402 children from alleged neglect, molestation, and sexual abuse.
The Center for Information Resilience (CIR), a non-profit human rights group, and the UK Guardian on Wednesday accused fighters from Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of gleefully posting images of themselves committing war crimes, including the burning of civilian homes and the torture of prisoners.
The Biden White House responded on Friday to a plea from House Democrats by proposing new rules for foreign shipping to close the notorious “de minimis” loophole, but took no immediate action.
The Department of Health in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), announced on Wednesday that couples will be required to undergo genetic testing before they can be married.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that his government’s support for Ukraine’s “territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence” is “unwavering.”
Severe flooding in northeastern Nigeria, which is plagued by constant attacks from the jihadis of Boko Haram, has killed at least 30 people.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov on Wednesday urged China to take a leading role in mediation on the Ukraine war.
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) reports that China has become the world leader in roughly 90% of critical technologies.
Ali Akbar Ahmadian, secretary-general of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) of Iran, on Wednesday called for the China-dominated BRICS economic group to create “a new security structure in the international arena to help the order and security of the future world.”
“Donald Trump, when he was president, negotiated one of the weakest deals you can imagine,” Vice President Kamala Harris said to deflect criticism of how her administration handled the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
During the presidential debate, Kamala Harris claimed Donald Trump exchanged “love letters” with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
