A delegation of politicians from Iran visited Algeria and Tunisia this week, hoping to increase Iran’s presence in Africa, find new friends after Tehran’s disastrous proxy war in Gaza, and turn the page on some unfortunate history in Algeria.
Alibaba founder Jack Ma, once the richest man in China before he was ruined and exiled for daring to criticize the Chinese Communist Party, paid a visit to his company’s main campus in Hangzhou on Friday.
Syrian rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States, launched a surprise offense in Idlib province on Thursday.
The government of Chad announced on Thursday it has canceled its military cooperation pact with France, its former colonial ruler.
Australian politicians describe their ban on children under 16 using social media as “world-leading,” but in truth, the rest of the world is not far behind them. An international consensus against permitting children on social media gained momentum in 2024, despite deep reservations from Internet freedom advocates.
China’s splashy Zhuhai Air Show suffered an awkward setback on Monday when a VT-4 main battle tank broke down in the middle of a live demonstration. Efforts to revive the tank were unsuccessful, leaving it rooted to the spot for the rest of the show.
Philippine police on Wednesday filed a criminal complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte and her security staff for assaulting security officers and disobeying their orders during an altercation at the House of Representatives on Saturday.
The Financial Times (FT) on Wednesday reported that Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun is under investigation for corruption.
South Korea’s fertility rate is expected to rise slightly when the data from 2024 is fully tabulated, but remains far below growth levels.
Supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan called off their protest in Islamabad after a massive midnight police raid.
Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu says the U.S. should pay for the reconstruction of Afghanistan.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) added 29 more Chinese entities to its list of exporters banned for suspected use of slavery, including companies that manufacture food and metals, from tomato paste to iron ore.
An Israeli official said on Monday that a potential ceasefire with Lebanon would mean only a temporary “cessation of hostilities,” not an end to Israel’s war against the terrorists of Hezbollah.
Pakistani officials say two police officers and four paramilitary troops have been killed in clashes with Imran Khan supporters.
Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad went under lockdown on Sunday as thousands of supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan marched on the city to demand his immediate release.
The Ministry of the Interior for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced three arrests on Monday in connection with the disappearance and death of Rabbi Zvi Kogan of Abu Dhabi.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to visit India in the near future, making his first trip to India since launching the brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Montreal Police Chief Fady Dagher said on Saturday that at least three people were arrested during violent pro-Palestinian, anti-NATO, and antisemitic protests in the downtown area on Friday, and more arrests were likely.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on Wednesday that all of his fellow provincial leaders are united behind his call for a bilateral trade agreement with the United States under the second Trump administration, rather than a continental deal that would also include Mexico.
World Health Organization director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was hospitalized after the G20 in Rio de Janeiro with hypertension.
Australia is rushing to get a new law banning children under 16 from using most social media platforms through parliament.
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying was upbeat and defiant at his trial in Hong Kong on Wednesday, facing down a kangaroo court appointed by the Communist-controlled puppet government to prosecute him under the fascist “national security law” imposed by Beijing.
South Korean lawmaker Lee Seong-kweun, a member of his parliament’s intelligence committee, said on Wednesday that about 10,900 North Korean mercenary soldiers have been deployed to Kursk for a counteroffensive against Ukrainian forces.
A Hong Kong court on Tuesday sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists and former activists to up to 10 years in prison, concluding the largest case brought to date under the authoritarian “national security law” imposed by Beijing to crush the 2019 pro-democracy movement.
Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen seizing the car carrier MV Galaxy Leader and taking its crew hostage.
A Gallup poll finds 52% of Ukrainians want the war to end as quickly as possible, versus 38% who want to fight until victory.
The Hamas-controlled Gaza Interior Ministry said on Monday that more than 20 Palestinian residents of Gaza were killed in a “crime prevention operation” by Hamas “security forces” and “tribal committees.”
A man drove his SUV into a crowd of students and pedestrians outside a school in Changde, China, on Tuesday, causing numerous injuries but no reported fatalities.
Canadian police are disrupting a growing number of Islamic State terrorist plots in major cities, a resurgence driven by ISIS recruiting young Canadians to its ranks.
China’s young people have tried a number of ways to deal with high unemployment in their country’s tottering economy, from valorizing joblessness as a form of political protest to “working” as valets for their aging parents.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that Russian forces attacked Ukraine’s energy and power infrastructure with hundreds of drones and missiles, including Iranian-made weapons.
Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said on Sunday that India successfully test-fired a long-range hypersonic missile from an island off its east coast.
Iranian officials signaled they might be willing to return to nuclear negotiations under the second Trump administration after meeting with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi in Tehran last week.
Mehri Talebi Darestani, head of the Women and Family Department of the ominous Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Tehran, announced on Wednesday that a “hijab removal treatment clinic” will be created to provide “scientific and psychological treatment” for women who refuse to obey Iran’s harsh headscarf laws.
Thousands marched on New Zealand’s capital city of Wellington on Friday to protest a bill that would reinterpret the Treaty of Waitangi, an 1840 agreement between the British Empire and Maori chiefs that governs policy matters related to indigenous people to this day.
Hundreds of Haitians packed their belongings and fled from previously secure districts of Port-au-Prince on Thursday as a running battle broke out between gangsters and police.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping began a week-long tour of South America on Thursday in Peru, where he joined President Dina Boularte to inaugurate a new deep-water port in Chancay that was financed with a $1.3 billion investment from China.
The government of South Africa said on Thursday it will not assist a group of illegal miners who became trapped in a mine shaft with minimal supplies after police sealed off the entrance.
Rafael Grossi, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told Iran on Thursday that the “margins for maneuver are beginning to shrink” for a “diplomatic solution” to the issue of Iran’s nuclear program.
Argentina withdrew its negotiators from the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Wednesday, the third day of the conference.
