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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officially stopped requiring hospitals to report coronavirus deaths last Wednesday as the death toll approached 900,000.

The Taliban backpedaled on Thursday after FBI-wanted terrorist and Afghan “Interior Minister” Sarajuddin Haqqani threatened the United States if Washington did not recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government.

Europe’s ‘heavy dependence’ on Russian gas for energy has left nations on the continent scrambling for alternatives over supply fears.

Truckers protesting the Canadian government’s vaccine mandate are converging on Ottawa, a fundraiser for the convoy raising over $4m. 

Two men have been arrested in the United Kingdom in relation to the recent hostage attack on a Synagogue in Texas.

Taiwan plans to invest $200 million in Lithuania, following increased hostilities between Lithuania and China.

China’s Global Times government newspaper condemned Americans in an article on Monday for “shouting, kissing, and dancing” on New Year’s Eve while much of China was under brutal coronavirus lockdowns – necessitated by the Communist Party’s poor handling of the pandemic.

Former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has reportedly accepted a role in Silicon Valley, after resigning over allegations of corruption.

The Chinese Embassy in France has put out a song attacking American democracy, in a move that has sparked confusion and mockery online. The Chinese embassy in France has become embroiled in an online storm of puzzlement and mockery after

Former U.S. President Barack Obama has been coaching Britain’s leftist Labour Party on how best to take power during the next election.

A study published Wednesday by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs found that the Chinese Communist Party was engaging in “daily” harassment and threats against members of the Uyghur-American community living in the United States.

The top federal agency in charge of oversight of American involvement in Afghanistan published a report on Friday stating the U.S. government spent nearly $89 billion on “training and equipping” the Afghan military in the past two decades.

Conservatives pushed back on Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm’s remarks about the U.S. slacking “moral authority” over China on climate.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) marked Columbus Day by praising the “courage, risk-taking, and heroism” of Christopher Columbus.

President Joe Biden has restarted flying thousands of Afghans to the United States, through the Philadelphia International Airport in Pennsylvania, after flights had been halted due to a measles outbreak by Afghans on multiple U.S. military bases. 

An analysis from a geospatial data company argues the number of trees planted in different neighborhoods nationwide is unequal along racial lines, and says the threat of “tree inequity” is real and growing.

Taliban supporters in the southeastern Afghanistan city of Khost held a “mock funeral” for the United States and NATO on Tuesday, complete with flag-draped coffins.

Afghans flown to the United States have been later sent back to countries abroad after federal agencies “flagged” them for “security concerns,” the Washington Post reported.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi says the Islamic terrorist attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan — which has left dead at least 13 United States service members — underscores the need to resettle more Afghans across the U.S.

A majority of Americans are not very optimistic about America’s future, a Trafalgar Group/Convention of States Action survey released Thursday found. 

French populist party leader Marine Le Pen has criticised the Biden administration after the rapid fall of Kabul to Taliban forces, stating it is unable to defend the free world.

China’s state-run Global Times newspaper celebrated the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban jihadist organization Sunday as a “complete humiliation” for the United States, shortly before the Foreign Ministry hinted it would be open to friendly ties with a new Taliban regime.

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) executive order that sought to prevent non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from bussing border crossers and illegal aliens into the United States’ interior.

A series of tepid and inaccurate statements from President Joe Biden and his administration are meeting growing calls this week for the American government to act to prevent the further loss of life in Cuba.

China’s government-run Global Times propaganda outlet published an opinion column Tuesday declaring that “Anglo-Saxons” are genetically predisposed to genocide and that ethnic Anglo-Saxons “practice [the] law of the jungle.”

Far-left actor John Cusack, who has amassed an estimated $50 million net worth in his near forty-year Hollywood career, this week trashed the United States of America, calling it a “f**king awful” place “full of cowards and corporate whores.”

The president spoke about China in a speech to North Carolina Republicans, demanding that China pay “reparations” to the world for the devastation caused by the pandemic.

The editor-in-chief of China’s Global Times, its most belligerent English-language state newspaper, demanded on Thursday that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) “rapidly increase the number of commissioned nuclear warheads” in response to an allegedly growing threat of war from the United States.

Ambassadors from member states of the European Union have backed a proposal to allow international travellers to enter Europe under the proviso that they are fully vaccinated.

The United States “harms Muslims” and “obviously” discriminates against them, China’s state-run Global Times propaganda outlet declared Monday, simultaneously condemning America for repudiating China’s genocide of Muslim communities at home.

Forests so large they could cover all of France have regenerated and thrived since 2000 and benefit the environment by absorbing CO2.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has launched a multi-state tour of the United States, dubbed the “America’s Comeback”, to energise conservative activists during the doldrums of the Biden presidency. Mr Farage — a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump —

TIRANA, Albania (AP) – Albania’s president has accused the U.S. ambassador of intervening in the small European country’s internal affairs by supporting its prime minister in an upcoming parliamentary election.

America is China’s top supplier of corn so far in 2021, Chinese media noted Sunday, with corn prices in China at record highs.

The government of Iran denied it would engage the United States in talks on Tuesday after the administration of President Joe Biden confirmed on Monday that it would send an envoy to Vienna, Austria, where the remaining signatories of the Iran nuclear deal are scheduled to discuss a path forward.

A Chinese “expert” told state media Wednesday that a laboratory leak in the United States was a potential “likely” explanation for the origin of the Chinese coronavirus, a conspiracy theory the Chinese Foreign Ministry has promoted for months without evidence.