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Australia & Oceania 09/03/19, 21:46

A dying father had his final wish granted by kind medics, who went out of their way to help. Brave Chris Shaw, 45, wanted to see his favorite beach one last time after being told his ...

Australia & Oceania 08/13/19, 23:51

Hong Kong hospital staff Tuesday Aug. 13, stepped forward to protest against police brutality and the island territory’s government. Employees from 13 hospitals across Hong Kong participated in the protest, according to a local cable television. Workers ...

Australia & Oceania 08/08/19, 09:09

An angry KFC customer who claimed she was served raw chicken by the fast-food giant has posted pictures of her meal—and claimed her complaint was ignored for nearly a week, according to The Daily Mail. The ...

Australia & Oceania 08/07/19, 20:23

In January 2017, Brendan Lee Burton assaulted his neighbor Anita Christanga, 78, while she was in bed. As a consequence of the assault, the elderly woman suffered many severe wounds, including a broken eye socket, broken ...

Australia & Oceania 08/05/19, 20:38

U.S. Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark Esper arrived in Auckland on Monday, Aug. 5, to meet his New Zealand counterpart Defense Minister Ron Mark, after Esper attended the Australia-US Ministerial meetings in Sydney over the ...

Australia & Oceania 07/13/19, 02:56

Nearly 60 native birds died after "falling from the sky" in front of horrified onlookers in a suspected case of mass poisoning in South Australia, rescuers say. Bird rescuers said it was like “something out of ...

Australia & Oceania 06/26/19, 18:30

A self-driving shuttle bus service has taken to the roads on a route around a university district in South Australia as a part of a five-year trial. South Australia is the one of the first to ...

Central America 09/06/19, 13:26

Mexico said it has met a U.S. 90-day deadline to reduce migrant flows across its territory. Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard is to deliver a final report on the Mexican government initiatives on Friday, Sept. 6, three ...

Central America 08/22/19, 23:19

U.S. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan was in Panama City on Thursday, Aug. 22, to meet with security officials and ministers from Central America and Colombia. He tweeted his arrival for the Ninth Northern Triangle ...

Central America 08/10/19, 11:11

Mexican police discovered 19 dead people, some people hanged from an overpass and others butchered and dumped on the road, in what authorities believe is a gang turf war, according to The Associated Press. In the ...

Central America 08/07/19, 00:19

The United States is ready to target any individual or country that supports Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime. On Tuesday, speaking from Peru's capital Lima, U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said the Trump administration will start ...

Central America 08/03/19, 15:54

Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard announced on July 30, that the number of illegal immigrants heading to the United States from Central America has been greatly reduced. Ebrard explained that although 144,278 immigrants ...

Central America 07/25/19, 19:34

Mexico is building a huge shelter for illegal immigrants on its northern border. The facility will allow these people to await for a response to their asylum applications in the United States. In the city of ...

Central America 07/22/19, 15:54

As part of his visit to Latin America, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele met last Sunday at the Presidential House in San Salvador to discuss economic cooperation and measures ...

Central America 07/22/19, 10:30

The Costa Rican Health Ministry said it has confirmed 19 deaths from the consumption of alcohol tainted with methanol. The ministry said in a Friday report that the investigation is continuing, but it has counted 14 ...

Central America 07/12/19, 20:25

Two weeks ago, the Cuban Ministry of Finance published a new list of prices for products sold in CUC (the Cuban equivalent of the dollar) and in pesos. The inventory of prices of food and hygiene ...

Central America 07/12/19, 19:17

As a contingency plan to curb immigration, the Mexican government unveiled the first two U.S. investment projects in the south of the country. The $800 million granted for the region would be for the construction ...

Central America 07/10/19, 19:40

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador fired Mexican doctors or will not renew their contracts this December, and will import Cuban professionals. Due to the socialist president's huge health cut—44%—at least 10,000 Mexican workers in the ...

Inspired Stories 09/18/19, 12:10

A garbage man created a community library in his own home and donates books to children, believing that education can break the cycle of poverty. Jose Alberto Gutierrez, 55, a garbage man who lives in Bogota, ...

South America 09/17/19, 17:45

The former president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, ordered his subordinates to coordinate actions to flood the United States with cocaine produced by the Marxist guerrilla FARC, since 2005. U.S. federal prosecutors reported these attempts by the ...

South America 09/13/19, 22:24

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met his visiting Brazilian counterpart, Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo, at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Speaking at the press conference, the two men affirmed the strategic partnerships between ...

South America 08/30/19, 23:01

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's son and the country's foreign minister visited the White House, on Friday, Aug. 30, seeking U.S. help, as firefighters battled to contain the ravaging wildfires in the Amazon. The Brazilian leader said ...

South America 08/24/19, 17:32

Backed by military aircraft, Brazilian troops on Saturday prepared to deploy in the Amazon to fight fires that have swept the region and prompted anti-government protests as well as an international outcry. Some 44,000 troops will ...

South America 07/25/19, 19:26

With a clarinet, saxophone, or violin in handcuffed hands, a group of prisoners were transported in a special armored bus to the national theater in the capital of Peru, Lima. The purpose—was for the prisoners to ...

South America 07/13/19, 19:56

Last Friday, the United States government extradited to Colombia former Agriculture Minister Andrés Felipe Arias, who is awaiting conviction in his country for embezzlement among other crimes. The Colombian Embassy in Washington received a note last ...

South America 07/13/19, 18:35

Infant mortality under Nicolás Maduro's regime in Venezuela has soared to the point that analysts are already talking about genocide.  Experts warn that the deterioration of medical and food supplies under Maduro's regime is causing conditions ...

South America 07/12/19, 20:03

The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions Thursday on the Maduro regime in Venezuela for assassinating military Captain Rafael Acosta Arévalo. The measure will affect the Directorate General of Military Counterintelligence and will increase pressure on Maduro's ...

South America 07/12/19, 18:00

The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, revealed on Thursday, July 11, that he is nominating his son, Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, from lower house of the National Congress of Brazil, as Brazil's ambassador to the United ...

South America 07/11/19, 21:50

Will the Bank of Venezuela be able to operate with the "petro"? That is the question that both market agents and politicians ask themselves when faced with the last order given by socialist leader Nicolás ...

South America 07/10/19, 19:51

Admiral Craig Faller, head of the U.S. Armed Forces Southern Command, confirmed Tuesday the presence of Russian troops in Venezuela, according to Agencia EFE. "There are Russian troops and there are Russian defense contractors in Venezuela, ...

South America 07/09/19, 20:38

The U.S. government yesterday demanded that Nicolás Maduro's regime release U.S. executives detained in Venezuela. Through a statement, the spokeswoman from the State Department, Morgan Ortagus, denounced Venezuela for the six directors of Citgo being " ...

South America 07/09/19, 19:40

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Argentina next week to participate in a summit against terrorism and pay tribute to the victims of the attack on the Israelite Argentine Mutual Association (AMIA) that ...

South America 07/08/19, 20:05

The shortage of gasoline that has paralyzed Venezuela since May has forced dozens of Venezuelan agricultural producers to reduce their area of cultivation, farmer Joandry Santiago told the New York Times. The agricultural industry is on ...

South America 07/06/19, 19:34

The northern province of Jujuy in Argentina signed a contract—for $30 million—with the Chinese technology company ZTE for a complex surveillance system that will make the streets "safer" according to Ekel Meyer, the province's security ...

South America 07/05/19, 17:34

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro once again said he would like U.S. President Donald Trump to visit South America to discuss the Venezuelan crisis with the presidents of the region. On Wednesday night, July 3, during an ...

South America 07/02/19, 15:23

Tens of thousands of tourists flocked to cities and towns across northern Chile to stake out spots in one of the world's best locations to witness Tuesday's total solar eclipse. Millions are expected to gaze at ...

South America 06/28/19, 13:05

About 1,000 guns and hundreds of explosives were seized in Argentina from an international criminal gang on Thursday, June 27. Authorities said that this is the biggest seizure of its kind in the history of ...

America 07/05/19, 21:21

A campaign of pro-life groups has been collecting donations for migrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. The initiative is called Bottles to the Border and is led by former employees of abortion clinics and pro-life ...

America 07/03/19, 20:23

Mexican authorities are investigating several reports of illegal immigrants trying to buy children to enter the United States, and obtain family unit benefits. According to testimony gathered by the Seattle Times from locals and the police, ...

America 06/28/19, 23:03

An engineer shouted for the young migrant woman to hurry up and climb aboard the freight train or she'd be left behind. In her bright red tennis shoes, she quickened her pace and was the ...

America 06/28/19, 21:28

Megan Rapinoe went from controversy to triumph, scoring twice for the United States in the much-anticipated clash with host France to send the defending champions into the semifinals of the Women's World Cup with a ...

America 06/28/19, 05:35

About 100 Mexican soldiers and immigration agents raided a freight train in the southern state of Chiapas on Thursday and detained dozens of Central American migrants riding atop the cars. Such raids had been rare since ...

America 06/26/19, 14:57

U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams assured that President Donald J. Trump supports political change in Venezuela during a briefing session on Tuesday, June 25. Abrams’s affirmative declaration came after a Washington Post article, citing ...

America 06/25/19, 02:36

Around 15,000 soldiers and National Guard policemen have been deployed by the Mexican government to the U.S. border in a bid to check migration flow from Central America, the country's defense chief told reporters on ...

America 06/21/19, 22:16

Mexico has completed its deployment of 6,000 National Guardsmen to help control the flow of migrants headed to the United States and filled 650 immigration agency posts to regulate border crossings, the government said on ...

America 06/21/19, 21:58

The deaths of eight American tourists in the Dominican Republic this year are not part of a mysterious wave of fatalities but a medically and statistically normal phenomenon that has been lumped together by the ...

America 06/21/19, 00:55

íMexico and El Salvador signed a cooperation agreement Thursday that includes a $30 million Mexican donation for reforestation in the Central American nation, amid increased pressure from the United States to slow a surge of ...

Trending 06/18/19, 18:26

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced Monday, June 17, that it is ready to send women to the moon—50 years after the first Apollo mission! The new space mission is aptly named Artemis, after ...

America 06/17/19, 21:18

The huge blackout that left tens of millions of people in the dark in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay over the weekend raised serious questions about the vulnerability of the power grid in South America and ...

America 06/17/19, 02:27

Mexican authorities increased immigration enforcement along well-traveled routes for migrants in southern Mexico over the weekend, checking identifications, pulling migrants off public transport and intercepting four trucks packed with nearly 800 migrants. The National Migration Institute ...

America 06/16/19, 20:47

A massive blackout left tens of millions of people without electricity in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay on Sunday after an unexplained failure in the neighboring countries' interconnected power grid. Authorities were working frantically to restore ...

America 06/12/19, 15:58

A Netherlands seed developer is the 2019 winner of the World Food Prize for pioneering high quality and disease-resistant vegetable seeds. The Dutch seed man has already introduced the hybrid seeds to over 60 countries, including ...

America 06/11/19, 13:45

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday, June 10, that Canada is planning to ban single-use plastics by 2021 in an attempt to curb plastic pollution. “I'm very happy to announce that as early as ...

America 06/08/19, 20:08

Thousands of people crossed into Colombia on Saturday to buy food and medicine after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro reopened a border between the countries that had been shut down for the past four months. Long lines ...

America 06/07/19, 01:11

Mexico's president said Thursday he will hold a "unity" rally on the border in Tijuana two days before the U.S. is set to impose tariffs on all Mexican imports. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that ...

America 06/06/19, 00:49

Some 200 military police, immigration agents and federal police blocked the advance of about 1,000 Central American migrants who were walking north along a southern Mexico highway on Wednesday, once again showing a tougher new ...

America 05/31/19, 04:17

At first they appeared only as weary silhouettes emerging from the dense foliage on the other side of the Tuquesa River. Three women, one leaning on a stick for support, and two others carrying their few ...

Europe 09/20/19, 04:28

A British man with Down syndrome, who was never expected to live beyond the age of 10 has defied the odds, recently celebrated his 77th birthday. Georgie Wildgust, from Nottinghamshire, UK, is the oldest person in ...

Europe 09/19/19, 19:53

Russia replaced the S-300 missile defense systems on Yuzhuny Island of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in northern Russia with its new S-400 Triumph version as part of its plan to increase military presence in the ...

Inspired Stories 09/17/19, 19:43

A plumber in England is being praised for refusing to take payment for work from a 91-year-old pensioner. James Anderson, 52, from Burnley, charged the elderly woman with acute leukemia 0 pounds. The bill was posted ...

Europe 09/17/19, 18:37

One of Germany's former heads of espionage accused Chancellor Angela Merkel of creating a security crisis in her country and in the European Union with the open border policy of 2015, allowing 1.5 million migrants ...

Europe 09/14/19, 19:35

A female police officer reportedly dived into a river in an attempt to save a drowning baby thrown from a bridge by his dad. It was Wednesday afternoon and Jessica Voiels, 24, was on patrol when ...

Inspired Stories 09/09/19, 13:40

Since birth, Rhys Williams, from Bolton, UK, has suffered from epidermolysis bullosa, a disease that triggers painful skin blisters and sores, and has even caused his fingers to fuse together.  Rhys's mother, Tanya, said when he ...

Europe 09/08/19, 20:27

A Scottish mother who became a record breaker as Britain's first mother to give birth to 10 boys in a row, finally gave birth to her eleventh child, a baby girl, in August 2019. Alexis Brett, ...

Trending 09/08/19, 11:12

A man showed off his lightning-quick reflexes when he caught a stranger’s phone while riding a roller coaster in Catalonia, Spain. Samuel Kempf, who lives in New Zealand, visited the theme park Port Aventura World last ...

Trending 09/08/19, 11:08

Australian journalist Peter Lalor got the shock of his life when he was accidentally charged $67,689 for a beer that was supposed to cost $6.76. The accident occurred on Sunday as Lalor visited a bar at ...

Europe 09/06/19, 20:56

U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper is visiting the United Kingdom (U.K.) after his trip to Stuttgart, Germany. The United Kingdom remains a valued partner and longstanding ally to the U.S. military. I had the pleasure ...

Europe 09/05/19, 23:40

A toddler was found safe alive in a house where the bodies of two adults were discovered by police on Wednesday, Sept. 4. Police said a 32-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman were found unresponsive inside ...

Europe 09/05/19, 23:28

A 12-year-old boy, Jamie Quinlan, from Louth, Lincolnshire, the United Kingdom was rushed to the hospital after a metal coil from a trampoline came loose and lodged into his flesh on Saturday, Aug. 31, according ...

Europe 09/03/19, 21:59

Bill Duncan, 71, has been with Anne, 69, for almost 18 years but they tied the knot for the second time after Bill forgot their first wedding 12 years ago. The “newlywed” described the wedding ...

Europe 09/01/19, 22:59

A woman who stabbed a 3-year-old boy in the face in front of his parents as they were walking down the street was arrested in Georgia on Wednesday, Aug. 28, the Daily Mail reported. The 51-year-old ...

Europe 08/27/19, 20:09

With just over two months to go before the UK leaves the European Union (EU), Prime Minister Boris Johnson feels "marginally more optimistic" and knows he has the support of the United Stats. The British leader ...

Europe 08/26/19, 20:31

President Donald Trump met German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines for bilateral talks during the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, on Monday, Aug. 26. Both leaders concurred the talks had been “productive.” Very productive meeting with ...

Europe 08/23/19, 10:31

A 93-year-old British woman died Wednesday, Aug. 21, from Takotsubo Syndrome—broken heart syndrome—just months after three men broke into her home and stole her valuables. According to a post of Northamptonshire Police on Facebook, Betty Munroe's ...

Europe 08/21/19, 20:11

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addressed leaders at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on August 20,  urging for greater collaboration and “fresh thinking to solve old problems” in the Middle East. During a news ...

Europe 08/21/19, 14:06

German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Tuesday that she plans to fulfill the commitment she made in Berlin with NATO allies to increase the country's defense budget amid strong criticism from the U.S. government. At the last ...

Europe 08/13/19, 21:46

After being fired from Tesco where he had been working for 17 years, a dedicated checkout employee took his own life. Shaun Winstanley, 49, was discovered dead just days after being told that despite appealing against ...

Politics 09/21/19, 16:29

President Donald Trump on Friday, Sept. 21, approved the deployment of additional U.S. troops and missile defense equipment to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates following last week’s drone attacks on two oil facilities. “The ...

Asia & Pacific 09/14/19, 17:15

The White House on Saturday issued a statement that Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late al-Qaida leader, was killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. "The loss of Hamza bin Ladin ...

Asia & Pacific 09/12/19, 09:07

Firefighters in New Zealand performed a traditional haka dance under Auckland's Sky Tower on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019. U.S. Ambassador Scott Brown, who tweeted videos of the event, said it was in tribute to the "bravery ...

Asia & Pacific 09/08/19, 14:38

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday, Sept. 8, that the Taliban “overreached” with its car bomb attack in a diplomatic area near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, killing an American soldier. He asserted ...

Asia & Pacific 09/08/19, 00:57

President Donald Trump said on Saturday, Sept. 7, that he had called off a secret weekend meeting at Camp David with Taliban and Afghanistan leaders after a bombing this week in Kabul killed 11 people, ...

Asia & Pacific 09/06/19, 22:56

Pro-democracy protests continued in Hong Kong on Friday, Sept. 6, with people taking to the streets and some lighting fires as a burning barricade on city streets. Police retaliated by firing rubber bullets, tear gas, and ...

U.S. 09/05/19, 20:38

The U.S. Navy's spy plane P8-Alpha Poseidon conducted a reconnaissance, flying over the Gulf of Thailand Thursday, Sept. 5, and displaying the increased military co-operation between the United States and Southeast Asian countries. The P8-Alpha’s reconnoiter ...

Asia & Pacific 09/04/19, 21:50

Pro-democracy legislators and activists on Wednesday, Sept. 4, denounced Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s announcement to withdraw the controversial China extradition bill that triggered months of massive demonstrations. They said Lam’s concession came “too little” ...

Asia & Pacific 09/03/19, 20:51

Hong Kong’s Joshua Wong Chifung and other prominent pro-democracy activists arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday, Sept. 3rd, for a two-day visit. Wong, a major figure in Hong Kong’s ongoing pro-democracy protests, urged the Taiwanese people to ...

Politics 09/03/19, 14:25

A speech by Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam at a private meeting expressing her desire to resign was leaked to the press on Sept. 2 raising many suspicions. Reuters got an audio recording of Carrie ...

Asia & Pacific 08/30/19, 20:39

Hong Kong police arrested well-known activist leader Joshua Wong and core member Agnes Chow of the pro-democracy party Demosisto, on Friday, Aug. 30. They were released on bail later in the day. In a clampdown on ...

Asia & Pacific 08/29/19, 20:16

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sent in fresh military troops and armored tanks into Hong Kong at Huanggang Port in the early hours of Thursday, Aug. 29. The move came a day after the Hong Kong ...

Asia & Pacific 08/29/19, 20:02

Amid the escalation of tension over pro-democracy protests, the Chinese regime sent a new batch of troops to Hong Kong this Thursday, Aug. 29, declaring that its garrison in the autonomous territory will follow the ...

Asia & Pacific 08/29/19, 09:42

Some 30,000 people participated in a rally in Chater Garden, Hong Kong, on Wednesday night, Aug. 28, to condemn alleged sexual harassment by police. 30,000 gathered for the #MeToo rally tonight in Central, Hong Kong, per ...

Asia & Pacific 08/28/19, 20:31

Some 2,000 people gathered in Hong Kong for a peaceful rally on Wednesday to denounce Cathay Pacific Airways for firing airline employees who participated in or support the pro-democracy rallies that have been ongoing on ...

Asia & Pacific 08/27/19, 20:30

Pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong on Tuesday, Aug. 27, condemned Hong Chief Executive Carrie Lam for “trashing all the conventional, traditional values" of the territory. The legislators denounced Lam for threatening to silence pro-democracy voices with ...

U.S. 08/26/19, 23:23

U.S. President Donald J. Trump on Monday Aug. 26, spoke about the new U.S.-Japanese trade deal during his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in Biarritz, France, at the G-7 summit. The United States and ...

Asia & Pacific 08/24/19, 19:53

After the CEO of Hong Kong's largest airline resigned—Britain's Rupert Hogg—due to political pressure exerted by the Chinese regime on the company in an attempt to condemn anti-government protests, the head of the Cathay Dragon ...

U.S. 08/23/19, 13:05

The Trump administration is ready to resume nuclear talks with North Korea, said the U.S. special envoy for North Korea Stephen Biegun on Wednesday, Aug. 21. This message came a day after the U.S. and South ...

Asia & Pacific 08/18/19, 16:30

Hong Kong streets were turned into rivers of umbrellas on Sunday as hundreds of thousands of people marched through heavy rain down a major road in the Chinese territory, where massive pro-democracy demonstrations have become ...

U.S. 09/18/19, 17:19

U.S. Senator Mr. Patrick Leahy of Vermont issued a statement on September 12 calling on the Chinese government to end its persecution of Falun Gong. His statement has been included in the congressional record. Senator Leahy ...

U.S. 08/31/19, 18:25

A Wall Street Journal reporter was forced to leave Chinese territory on Aug. 30 after authorities declined to renew his press credentials, the Wall Street Journal reported. This is journalist Chun Han Wong, who reported in ...

World 08/30/19, 19:16

The Hong Kong police arrested three pro-democracy activists for allegedly inciting, organizing, and participating in an unauthorized assembly at the Wan Chai police headquarters on June 21. Joshua Wong, secretary general of the pro-democracy organization Demosisto, ...

U.S. 08/26/19, 22:55

Following Sunday’s talk between President Donald Trump and Chinese officials, the trade war between the two countries has seemingly reached a turning point after President Trump explored the possibility of a positive future of global ...

World 08/26/19, 19:59

In a new escalation of violence, Hong Kong police fired live ammunition into the air from their service pistols, as a warning to protesters in the Western New Territories region on Sunday night. The pro-democracy ...

Politics 08/23/19, 18:54

President Donald Trump in a series of tweets on Friday, Aug. 23, ordered all U.S. companies with operations in China to begin looking for alternatives in response to retaliatory tariffs from Beijing. The president started by ...

World 08/20/19, 20:16

In July, the Chinese communist regime denied more than 2.5 million citizens the possibility of buying plane tickets, announced the Global Times, owned by the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, the People's Daily. In ...

U.S. 08/20/19, 14:48

The United States could deny visas to Chinese doctors suspected of being involved in the forced removal of organs from practitioners of the spiritual discipline Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong. This discipline based on ...

U.S. 08/16/19, 16:14

U.S. intelligence warned that Huawei would consider starting to market its devices by importing them from Mexico. The plan would be to send millions of smartphones to Mexico and then import them into the United States ...

U.S. 08/15/19, 15:58

The new survey by the Pew Research Center showed that in the United States, unfavorable opinions about the Chinese regime increased by 13% compared to last year, reaching 60% in the middle of the trade ...

Asia & Pacific 08/15/19, 15:10

President Donald Trump suggested a solution on Thursday morning to China's leader Xi Jinping for the escalating situation in Hong Kong. "If President Xi would meet directly and personally with the protesters, there would be a ...

Asia & Pacific 08/15/19, 09:20

China has denied requests for two U.S. Navy ships to visit Hong Kong despite successful port visits in the past, the U.S. Pacific Fleet confirmed on Wednesday, Aug. 14. The USS Green Bay was scheduled for ...

Asia & Pacific 08/14/19, 23:36

News Analysis As reported by The Guardian and Fox News, aerial photos taken just outside of Hong Kong, in the province of Shenzhen, show a buildup of military personnel carriers being stored inside a soccer stadium, ...

Asia & Pacific 08/14/19, 22:45

Chinese state-controlled media released footage displaying armored carriers and other vehicles from the People's Armed Police of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) traveling toward the Hong Kong border. The footage provided by state-owned Chinese tabloid newspaper, ...

Asia & Pacific 08/12/19, 19:53

Chinese artist and social activist Ai Weiwei Monday said the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) crackdown on demonstrations in Hong Kong is becoming more brutal. He expressed his concerns that the West is not stepping forward to ...

U.S. 08/09/19, 21:31

President Donald Trump spoke to White House reporters on Friday before leaving for his annual August vacation at his lush New Jersey golf club. Despite being tested on different fronts, the president was optimistic, indicating he ...

World 08/09/19, 19:26

President Donald Trump on Friday said he was not ready to make a trade deal with China, and a planned September talk between White House officials and Beijing could be called off. “We are talking to ...

World 08/07/19, 18:11

The Chinese communist regime has warned demonstrators in Hong Kong that they will be "punished" for the demonstrations that have been going on in the region for two months. "As for their punishment, it’s only a ...

U.S. 08/07/19, 01:07

With the tendency of the legacy media to ignore that farming even more so than any other capitalistic endeavor always involves risk as well as gain depending on the market, years of socialism in America ...

World 08/06/19, 19:54

The communist regime in Beijing is buying Iranian oil in clear defiance of the sanctions imposed by the United States on the Ayatollah regime. Several vessel tracking services analysed by The New  York Times have revealed ...

Asia & Pacific 07/26/19, 18:58

If you were a visitor arriving on Friday at the Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok International Airport, this would be the scene, you saw on your first steps on to ‘Asia’s world city.’ A sea of ...

Asia & Pacific 07/19/19, 19:49

Hong Kong young activists are no greenhorns when it comes to protests. As another huge rally is organized for Sunday, protesters’ strategies are getting more creative. From hand signs to colorful post-it notes, these young activists ...

World 07/04/19, 21:41

An independent tribunal in the UK recently attracted widespread news coverage after announcing a judgment that the Chinese Communist regime is killing its detained citizens for organs. A 60-page summary of the judgment was released on ...

Asia & Pacific 07/02/19, 17:43

Tens of thousands of Hong Kong people gathered on Monday afternoon for the annual July 1 march that is held on the anniversary of Britain's return of Hong Kong to China in 1997. This year’s ...

Trending 06/27/19, 16:17

Thousands of residents participated in Hong Kong’s rally on Wednesday night, June 26, to oppose the proposed extradition bill that they fear will take away the city’s freedom. They were rallying to appeal to world leaders ...

Europe 06/25/19, 18:26

Speaking at a meeting in Geneva on Monday, June 24, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet emphasized human rights violations in several regions of the world. Bachelet expressed disappointment at Saudi Arabia's ...

World 06/24/19, 21:33

There are 25 million adults and children suffering from labor and sex trafficking all over the world, including in the United States, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The U.S. Department of State (DOS) released ...

Trending 06/20/19, 14:56

Dozens of Filipinos held a rally near the Presidential Palace in Manila on Wednesday, June 19, to condemn a statement Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte made on Monday. The protesters are angry because President Rodrigo Duterte described ...

Asia & Pacific 06/19/19, 19:38

An activist for pro-democracy group Demosisto and a leading figure in Hong Kong's 2014 Umbrella Movement demonstrations, Joshua Wong was released from prison. Wong urged Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam to withdraw the extradition amendment ...

World 06/18/19, 02:05

A panel of experts and lawyers from the China Tribunal in London has concluded that China has in fact been murdering Falun Gong practitioners and harvesting their organs for transplant. The tribunal said on June ...

Politics 06/17/19, 15:19

Hong Kong’s former Chief Secretary Anson Chan said on Friday, June 14, that the territory's current government should drop the proposed extradition bill that has triggered massive weeklong protests. Chan said this past week’s protests involving ...

Politics 06/14/19, 17:41

A group of nine pro-democratic lawmakers condemned the Hong Kong government for describing Wednesday's mass protest on the island nation as a riot. The legislators were specifically referring to comments made by Hong Kong Special Administrative ...

Europe 06/12/19, 17:22

The Russian Interior Affairs Ministry has, under public pressure, dropped drug-dealing charges against a prominent investigative journalist, in a sudden turn of events. Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev surprised the nation and the world on Tuesday after ...

World 06/12/19, 14:38

The New York Post carried an article on June 1, 2019, titled “Chinese dissidents are being executed for their organs, former hospital worker says.” The article was written by Steven W. Mosher, the president of the Population Research ...

Europe 06/10/19, 17:31

A prominent Russian investigative journalist was arrested and allegedly beaten while in detention. Ivan Golunov, who works for the independent Latvia-based Meduza online news agency, was charged with drug dealing. Four grams of synthetic stimulant mephedrone ...

World 06/03/19, 21:42

November 1989 marked the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, when thousands of Germans brought down the Berlin Wall—the most visible symbol of the Cold War, built by communists to separate East and West Berlin. The ...

World 06/03/19, 15:56

June 4, 2019, marks the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Former Associated Press (AP) journalist Jeff Widener, who was present at the scene to cover the story, recollects his experience of the ...

Asia & Pacific 06/03/19, 14:19

Thirty years have passed since the June 4 Tiananmen Square protests. Former Chinese pro-democracy activists speak about how the 1989 student-led demonstrations in Beijing have left a lasting impact on their lives. Lawyer and former student ...

World 05/31/19, 23:13

A 73-year-old woman who was sentenced to two years in March 2019 for practicing Falun Gong was denied admission by Shandong Province Women's Prison after she failed the required physical exam. The authorities hired two ...

World 05/13/19, 01:29

Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa) practitioners from Canada and supportive lawmakers celebrated the 27th annual World Falun Dafa Day in front of Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday. The attendees condemned the persecution of ...