New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told Radio New Zealand (RNZ) on Monday her government was “gravely” concerned by the Solomon Islands’ recent confirmation it signed a security pact with China.
Hundreds of people in Brazil have allegedly expressed interest in traveling to Ukraine to help the nation’s army fight its latest war against Russia, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Monday.
A South Korean marine who recently attempted to volunteer to fight for Ukraine in its latest war against Russia was reported as “missing in action somewhere in Poland” on Wednesday, the Korea JoongAng Daily reported Thursday.
Conservative South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol and outgoing South Korean President Moon Jae-in, a leftist, have failed to meet per tradition in recent days, reportedly due to an apparent animosity between the two sides as evidenced in public barbs against one another from respective representatives, Yonhap News Agency reported Thursday.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry allegedly told his Chinese counterpart on Tuesday Cairo “opposes some countries for putting pressure on China over [the] Ukraine issue,” China’s state-run Global Times reported on Wednesday.
Canada’s ruling Liberal Party — led by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — finalized a deal with Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) on Tuesday that will see the liberals remain in power through 2025 despite being in the minority, Reuters reported.
Any political or territorial compromises Kyiv potentially makes with Moscow to negotiate a peace deal between the warring sides will be submitted to the Ukrainian people in a referendum, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine (Suspilne) on Monday.
Turkish government authorities rejected the citizenship applications of Uyghur refugees fleeing genocide by China in occupied East Turkistan last year on the grounds they allegedly posed risks to Turkey’s “national security” or “social order,” Voice of America (VOA) reported on Wednesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted a rally at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium on Friday to mark the eighth anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Ukraine, the Kremlin’s official presidential press service reported.
Ethiopia’s ruling Prosperity Party (PP) recently dismissed 2,574 officials from leadership positions as part of a major political reshuffle amid Ethiopia’s ongoing civil war, the Addis Standard reported on Wednesday.
A Nigerian national told the BBC on Wednesday he is willing to fight for Ukraine in its latest war against Russia and would volunteer to do so because he believes “being a soldier in Ukraine would be better than being here,” referring to his life in Lagos, Nigeria.
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday rejected as “incomplete and insufficient” India’s explanation for its firing of an unarmed missile into its neighbour’s territory last week, which New Delhi said was an “accident.”
The Chinese government’s established “Zero-COVID” strategy to combat transmission of the Chinese coronavirus — which centers largely upon state-imposed lockdowns — must be adhered to “even more firmly” now that China is facing its worst outbreak of the disease in two years, China’s state-run Global Times argued in an op-ed published Wednesday.
China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) ordered 13 aircraft into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on Monday, forcing Taiwan’s air force to scramble fighter jets to “drive away” the incursion, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said in a statement.
The Philippine Foreign Ministry summoned China’s ambassador to Manila on Monday over the “illegal intrusion and lingering presence” of a Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) vessel in Philippine waters near the Sulu Sea over a three-day period from January 29 through February 1.
Meta Platforms Inc. allowed posts specifically calling for the “death” of Russian President Vladimir Putin to remain on its social media platforms Instagram and Facebook in recent days, Reuters reported Monday, citing internal Meta emails.
Taliban spokesman Inamullah Samangani issued a Twitter statement on Thursday in which he said Taliban leaders met earlier that day with U.N. representatives to discuss women’s rights in Afghanistan to mark the occasion of International Women’s Day, which took place on Wednesday.
China’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday warned the U.S. government against imposing financial sanctions on China in response to its stance on Russia’s latest war with Ukraine, saying Beijing would answer such a gesture with a “strong and resolute response.”
A still-unidentified Ukrainian man whose car was crushed by an armored vehicle in Kyiv on February 25 resurfaced this week in an interview published by the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).
Zhang Lianqi, a top political adviser to the Chinese Communist Party, recently proposed the party create a law that would punish any Chinese citizen for violating his or her “responsibility to promote reunification,” referring to Beijing’s repeated threats to “reunify” the independent nation of Taiwan with China, the South China Morning Post reported Wednesday.
Establishment-backed Pat McCrory released a TV ad accusing his top competitor Rep. Ted Budd of being “friendly toward Russia.”
New Zealand recorded its highest single-day tally of new Chinese coronavirus cases on Tuesday, a development that seemed to cast doubt on the efficacy of the nation’s strict pandemic measures.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday her staff recorded 304 deaths caused by military airstrikes in northern Ethiopia since November 2021 “apparently carried out by the Ethiopian Air Force.”
A 70-year-old man attacked the chairman of South Korea’s ruling party Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), Song Young-gi, with a hammer during a campaign stop in Seoul on Monday, causing Song to suffer injuries to his head requiring stitches, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported.
Turkey should not allow nearby Ukraine’s war with Russia to distract Ankara from its goal of regaining control over islets in the Aegean Sea disputed with Greece, Turkish journalist Hulki Tzevizoglou advised on Wednesday.
The hashtag “#IStandWithPutin,” referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin, was among the trending topics on Twitter in India on Thursday, China’s state-run Global Times reported on Friday.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman told the Atlantic on Thursday his human right to remain “innocent until proven guilty” was violated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) when it accused him of ordering the 2018 killing of Saudi
Japan’s Defense Ministry on Wednesday accused Russia’s military of ordering a helicopter to fly through Japanese airspace off the nation’s northernmost island of Hokkaido near islets disputed by Tokyo and Moscow.
Former Comedy Central “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart cannot rule himself out of a future tilt at high office, drawing inspiration from what he calls “the shitheads” currently in Congress.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — Border Patrol agents found an abandoned migrant toddler wandering the banks of the Rio Grande early Tuesday. Shortly after midnight, in 30-degree weather, the toddler was wearing little more than a hoodie for warmth.
Several Russian celebrities risked a potential exposure ban by state media this week through their public protests against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, Fortune magazine reported.
Chinese nationals in Kyiv, Ukraine’s national capital, are facing heightened “security risks” amid Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine this week, China’s state-run Global Times reported on Thursday.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili told reporters on Friday his country’s government will not join those of other nations in imposing sanctions on Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, TASS news agency reported.
Ukrainian Ambassador to Japan Sergiy Korsunsky posed in a samurai costume for a photo shared by his Twitter account last week, telling Japan’s Shūkan Bunshun magazine on Tuesday the image of him dressed as a medieval Japanese warrior was meant to convey a protective energy toward Ukraine as it faced increased Russian military aggression.
Russian police arrested 700 protesters Thursday who were urging leader Vladimir Putin to end his assault on Ukraine, the Agence-France Presse (AFP) reported citing independent monitors.
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili — who has been imprisoned in Georgia since October 2021 on corruption charges he denies — launched a hunger strike on Monday to protest the Georgian government’s “treatment of him,” particularly poor medical care, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reported.
China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday compared the Donbas region of Ukraine, currently overrun by two Russian-backed separatist entities, to the sovereign state of Taiwan, urging the G7 member countries to grant “unwavering support” to a Chinese invasion of the
Nurses in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) remained on strike on Monday for the sixth-straight day to demand a pay raise and set nurse-to-patient ratios, NSW’s South Coast Register reported.
Former Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez fainted during an appearance at a virtual court hearing on Thursday in a trial in which she stands accused of orchestrating a coup d’etat against Bolivia’s socialist government, the independent news agency MercoPress reported on Friday.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele denounced on Wednesday an effort by U.S. senators to introduce legislation that would “mitigate potential risks to the U.S. financial system” allegedly posed by El Salvador’s adoption of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin as a legal tender.
