Frances Martel

The Japanese entertainment franchise Pokémon issued a formal apology on Friday after “Chinese netizens” launched an outrage campaign against it over an unofficial event allegedly scheduled to take place at the Yasukuni Shrine, a Japanese site that honors, among others, World War II war criminals.

A poll published on Thursday found that slightly over half of Brazilians, 51 percent, believe that socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva does not deserve to win a fourth term in office in the October presidential election.

Syria President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the al-Qaeda offshoot terrorist militia Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, attended an in-person meeting with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday to discuss boosting Russia’s economic presence in the country.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed this week that three men deported to Iran recently, found to have entered America illegally, were “known or suspected” members of the terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Bolivian community leaders asked the federal government this week to investigate after an opposition lawmaker claimed that socialist ex-president Evo Morales, a fugitive charged with pedophilia who has been hiding for months in his stronghold Cochabamba, has fled to Mexico.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry complained on Tuesday that the American mission to arrest deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro was “bullying,” but offered no substantive response when asked what it was doing to aid the remains of the socialist regime.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), held a phone call on Tuesday with President Donald Trump shortly before his departure to Moscow to meet with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.

The Houthi terrorists of Yemen published an ominous video on Monday showing a ship on fire, captioned simply with the word “soon.”

The Iranian Islamist regime debuted a billboard in the heart of Tehran this weekend with images of destroyed fighter jets on an aircraft carrier forming an American flag, threatening the destruction of the U.S. military.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, a China-friendly leftist, insisted on Sunday that he was not pursuing a free trade agreement with China that would endanger the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) following President Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 100 percent tariff on Canada over its closeness to Beijing.

A Brazil presidential election poll found for the first time a lead for Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, in a runoff vote against incumbent socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Bizarre images surfaced out of North Korea this week of Kim Jong-un wearing a massive coat at a hot spring complex.

An unnamed “U.S. official” told the news agency Reuters in a report published on Thursday that America’s participation in the Venezuelan oil industry would not prevent communist China from buying such oil, but that they would no longer benefit from “unfair, undercut” prices.

Socialist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva held a friendly phone call on Friday with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.

Mexican officials have openly embraced mass migration as a form of accelerating the reconquest of U.S. territory that previously belonged to Mexico, Peter Schweizer documents in his new book.

A video began circulating on social media on Wednesday, published by the Kurdish news organization Rudaw, of a man identified as a “Damascus-affiliated armed group” member holding hair allegedly cut off the dead body of a Kurdish soldier.

America’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) is set to formally conclude on Thursday, a year after the U.S. expressed its intent to depart the United Nations agency and a year and two days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin the process.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said President Trump’s efforts to secure Greenland “could not happen to a more deserving continent.”

The Christians of Nigeria have shown “remarkable resilience and faith” in one of the most violent persecution climates in the world.

Turkish Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan published photos on his social media accounts on Tuesday appearing to play basketball with retired NBA star and commentator Shaquille O’Neal in Istanbul.

A group of representatives of the Turkic communities of East Turkistan, a nation colonized by the Chinese Communist Party, gathered before the White House on Monday to mark five years since Washington recognized the ongoing genocide of Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic peoples in the region.

A torrent of violence, including reported beheadings and a prison break by Islamic State terrorists, erupted in Syria on Monday following the signing of an agreement between the jihadist federal government under President Ahmed al-Sharaa and the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

Cuba’s National Security Council held a meeting this weekend to discuss what state propaganda described as “plans and measures to take a step toward a State of War,” a day after welcoming the remains of 32 of its soldiers killed in an American operation to arrest deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.

The government of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), signed an agreement on Sunday with American-allied Kurdish forces in the country that dramatically strips away the latter’s autonomy in exchange for Damascus recognizing “Kurdish cultural and linguistic rights.”

Christians in Syria are choosing to “hide Christian symbols and avoid public displays of faith” following the collapse of the Assad regime and ascent of the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to power, Ryan Brown, the CEO of the Christian human rights organization Open Doors, told Breitbart News in remarks this weekend.

A plane carrying the remains of 32 identified Cuban state security agents killed in the American military operation to arrest deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro landed in Havana on Thursday. Shocking footage of its arrival showed that the remains of the fallen were apparently not large enough for coffins and brought home in small boxes.

Anti-socialist Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has consistently appeared as the most popular such figure in the country in polls because of her refusal to negotiate with the regime, the president of the polling firm Meganálisis, Rubén Chirino Leañez, told Breitbart News this week.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi issued a robust defense of the murderous Iranian regime on Thursday, warning America not to impose “the law of the jungle” by supporting massacred protesters during a conversation with his Iranian counterpart.

President Donald Trump told Reuters on Wednesday that, while shah scion Reza Pahlavi “seems very nice,” the U.S. president did not feel confident that the Iranian people would support him as leader should the current Islamist dictatorship fall.

Leftist protests in defense of Nicolás Maduro “do not at all represent the Venezuelan people,” the CEO of the polling firm Meganálisis said.

The European Broadcast Union (EBU) announced that tickets for the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest have sold out in record time.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry and the Communist Party’s state propaganda arms railed on Tuesday against President Donald Trump’s imposition of a 25-percent tariff on countries that do business with Iran.

A group of Venezuelans and Venezuelan-Americans gathered on Monday outside the White House to thank President Donald Trump for approving a mission to arrest now-deposed socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, who terrorized the Venezuelan people for over a decade.