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Panama will reportedly start imposing a fine of up to $5,000 on illegal migrants caught crossing through the Darién Gap jungle trail, President José Raúl Mulino announced on Thursday.

A senior Iranian foreign policy official said on Friday that Iran could build a nuclear weapon at any time if “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wishes it so – and it might soon in the event of an “existential threat” emerging.

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.

Former President Donald Trump became the first major party presidential candidate to visit Dearborn, Michigan, on Friday, venturing into the majority-Arab and predominantly Muslim town, which had once been hostile territory.

Argentine Ambassador to China Marcelo Suarez Salvia claimed to China’s state-run newspaper Global Times on Thursday that the government of President Javier Milei is “willing” to continue engaging with China despite Milei’s staunch opposition to communism.

Former American President Donald Trump marked Diwali on Thursday, one of the largest Hindu celebrations of the year, vowing to protect the religious freedom of Hindu Americans and making a final pitch to Indian American voters generally.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the target of an investigation into alleged leaks regarding hostage negotiations, according to court documents unsealed in Israel on Friday.

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.

Greek police said on Friday that an explosion in an Athens apartment that killed a man appears to have been caused by an improvised bomb.

Urban pacification squads will be deployed to a drug gang-plagued French suburb Friday night after a brawl involving hundereds but no arrests.

North Korea confirmed on Friday that the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) the communist regime tested on Thursday was a new model, identified as the “Hwasong-19.”

Campaign seasons rarely provide opportunities to discuss issues, but the last week of the 2024 election has yielded a surprisingly enlightened discussion — on the left — about who is to blame for the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

A family’s top-end electric Mercedes burst into flames on their driveway and was consumed by fire within minutes before they could act to try and put it out.

A migrant drug dealer reportedly avoided deportation from Britain after arguing that his removal would cause mental health issues for his mother.

Israeli air and ground forces continue to work together in both the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon to eliminate terrorists.

Many streets are still blocked by piled-up vehicles and debris, in some cases trapping residents in their homes.

A boat migrant who has turned himself into a minor social media celebrity has been detained after allegedly illegally crossing to the UK.

Nice work if you can get it. Labour’s newly appointed “value for money” tsar will pocket the equivalent of a £247,000 annual salary, the government has disclosed, significantly more than the prime minister’s pay and working out at £950-a-day for the duration of his employ.

The main highway in Tel Aviv projected a pro-Trump billboard message Thursday night that read, “Israel Votes Trump.”

The Moroccan migrant rapist suspected of killing a 19-year-old French girl in an affluent neighbourhood of Paris in September will finally be extradited back to France after fleeing to Switzerland.

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.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was blasted Thursday by Jewish critics after documents emerged indicating that he told Columbia University’s leaders to ignore criticism of antisemitism in campus protests.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), also known as AOC, is being mocked for a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) flyer that is printed partially in Arabic, because the Arabic is written backwards and in disconnected script.

The government of Saudi Arabia hosted the inaugural meeting of the “International Alliance to Implement the Two-State Solution,” a nebulous coalition organized by Riyadh to formalize the creation of a Palestinian state.

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.

Venezuela’s socialist regime recalled its ambassador to Brazil and threatened Colombia’s Foreign Minister Luis Murillo on Wednesday, further straining its relationship with two of its most sympathetic leftist neighbors.

President of Argentina Javier Milei fired Foreign Minister Diana Mondino after she voted at the U.N. in favor of lifting the Cuban “embargo”

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s choice of Mitchell L. Ikenna Johnson to head the Chicago Public Schools is facing heavy criticism and spurring calls for the latter to resign after revelations that he engaged in a long series of antisemitic comments on social media.

A Russian court on Wednesday slapped Google with a fine of $20 decillion dollars for refusing to run propaganda from Russian state media.

The Texas Department of Public Safety released a video showing the chaos occurring along the U.S.-Mexico border resulting from the open-border policies of the Biden-Harris administration. The video shows multiple human smuggling operations, drug seizures, and cartel gun battles near the border.

Former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), one of the most prominent pro-Israel politicians in America, accepted the endorsement of several Arab American leaders for former President Donald Trump in New York City on Thursday.

“The hero is said to control his urges – not suppress them, nor leave them unchecked – the hero expresses the balance between them and the correct measure.”

A Paris commercial court lifted a ban that had prevented Israeli defense companies from exhibiting weapons at the Euronaval trade exhibition.