The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported on Thursday that Iran has defied calls from the international community by increasing its already prodigious stockpile of near-weapons-grade uranium, and by refusing to give top IAEA inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
More than one million restaurants in China have closed since the beginning of 2024, as the poor economy turns consumers to cheap takeout.
Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Burkina Faso, Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), claimed on Thursday it was targeting militias allied with the ruling junta, not civilians, when it launched an attack that killed almost 300 people last weekend.
Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, had nothing to say about China during the first press interview of their 2024 campaign.
A Hong Kong court finds two editors of the now-defunct Stand News guilty of “sedition” for covering the pro-democracy uprising in 2019.
Reuters published a report Thursday that showed China-based inventors have filed more than 1,000 patents in the United States since 2010 based on advanced technology research funded by U.S. taxpayers.
The South Korean Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that many of the government’s climate change goals are unconstitutional.
The feud between Libya’s two governments for control of its central bank intensified on Wednesday as more oil fields shut down and the eastern government demanded the return of ousted bank governor Sadiq al-Kabir.
Prosecutors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo seek the death penalty for 50 alleged coup plotters, including three Americans.
The United Nations World Food Program is investigating two of its top officials in hunger-plagued Sudan for fraud.
The Pentagon said on Tuesday that the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion, abandoned in the Red Sea after a pirate attack by the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen last week, appears to be leaking oil — possibly the prelude to a much-feared environmental catastrophe.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hinted on Tuesday that he could be open to resuming limited nuclear negotiations with Iran’s great “enemy,” the United States.
More than 70 people were killed in attacks by separatist militants who wish to stop Pakistan’s cooperation with China.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, touching base with the Russian leader three days after returning from a visit to Ukraine.
Police in India deployed tear gas and water cannons on Tuesday against hundreds of protesters marching in Kolkata to protest unsafe conditions for medical staff. The protests began after a female trainee doctor was raped and murdered at a hospital in Kolkata on August 9, and soon escalated into nationwide demonstrations and a strike by doctors.
ExxonMobil produced a report on Monday that anticipated oil demand reaching a “plateau” in 2030 and remaining fairly stable for the next 20 years – a prediction far out of line with political narratives of a “transition to green energy.”
Nigerian Shiite militants with close ties to the government of Iran allegedly killed at least two police officers in Abuja.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield condemned the Houthis for creating an ecological disaster by attacking an oil tanker.
Bank of China (BOC) Vice-Chairman and President Liu Jin resigned without warning on Sunday, only five months after he was reappointed.
On the third anniversary of the Kabul airport bombing that killed 13 American service members and 170 Afghans during President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, Vice President Kamala Harris put out a statement praising Biden’s “courageous” decision to withdraw and insisted he made no mistakes worth mentioning.
Federal prosecutors filed charges in New York on Monday against Yuanjun Tang, a Chinese dissident and veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, for working as an illegal operative of the People’s Republic of China.
Russian officials have filed criminal charges against CNN reporter Nick Paton Walsh for reporting from a Russian town occupied by Ukraine.
The Canadian government finally took action to resolve the railroad labor crisis on Friday, ordering Canadian National Railway (CN), Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC), and the Teamsters union to accept mediation by a third party.
The general narrative of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) this week was to erase Kamala Harris’s dismal record as vice president — indeed, to somehow pretend that former President Donald Trump has somehow been in office all this time and she is running as a plucky challenger brimming with hope and joy.
The Chinese government issued record-high mining quotas for rare earth minerals this week, reaching a new high of 270,000 tons that exceeds 2023’s total by 5.88 percent.
The Greek-flagged oil tanker MV Sounion was left adrift and burning in the Red Sea after attacks from the Houthi terrorists of Yemen.
During his visit to Chechnya, Russian President Vladimir Putin was filmed kissing a gold-leafed Quran at a major mosque.
Canada’s much-feared railroad stoppage has begun after a last-ditch round of talks between railroad companies and unions failed.
The Taliban announced that U.N. Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Afghanistan Richard Bennett has been banned from entering the country.
South Korean officials found toxic substances in women’s accessories that Chinese e-commerce giants Shein, AliExpress, and Temu sell.
Russian President Vladimir Putin paid his first visit to Chechnya in 13 years on Tuesday, meeting with erratic Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
The administration of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heeding left-wing demands to stay out of a dispute between railroad companies and unions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday extending temporary residency to foreigners who share “traditional Russian spiritual and moral values” and would like to take a vacation from “the destructive neoliberal ideological agenda.”
The Korea Times on Tuesday reported some consternation in Seoul over the mysterious disappearance of “denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula” from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) platform.
The FBI, ODNI, and CISA stated that hackers linked to the Iranian government were responsible for attacking the Trump campaign.
China’s Ministry of Water Resources logged the most floods recorded in a single season since China began keeping records in 1998.
China’s National Bureau of Statistics on Friday released economic data that showed youth unemployment rose to 17.1 percent in July, an increase from 13.2 percent in June and the highest level recorded in 2024 so far.
The Chinese government has implemented tighter health screening for travelers from Africa, where a new outbreak of monkeypox or “mpox” was recently declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.).
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Azerbaijan on Sunday for a two-day state visit, looking to bolster Russia’s relationship with the aggressive Islamist power even as relations with Armenia — Russia’s former best friend in the region — deteriorate.
Three weeks after freeing Wall Street Journal report Evan Gershkovich in a hostage swap for dangerous Russian criminals held in the United States and Europe, Moscow is threatening to arrest a group of Washington Post journalists who crossed the border with Ukrainian troops to file a story on their incursion into Kursk.
